The southern press., 1851-04-02


the metropolitan cities Of Virginia and of this
glorious Union, this " . case of young back
woodsman knowing nothing Of printing, papers
or subscriptions, but ard INT ~ Southern sun
could make him, responding promptly and with
out calculation, to call to post Of duty in de-
fence of the principles and rights Of fifteen
States and the wel-b being Of ten millions Of
people.
Or if ours had been case like that Of the
Washington Union when the present editor OF
that paper took the tripod with a fifty thous-
and dollars SO mysteriousy supplied, that its
source is even yet matter of profound obscu-
rity to the recipient--and with all the subscri-
bers that had been accumulated in the fifteen
years ascendancy of the powerful party whose
organ it was, and with the aid Of thirty thousand
post masters and ofiiceholders, and with the
printing OF both houses of Congress, Mt first
rithom contract, and with such snug little jobs
as Patent Office Reports, afiording fifty thousand
dollars of profit, and with the printing of the
Executive departments to the tune of ten thous-
and year, the Democratic half ut least of all
scrlbbledom and typedom would have stood as
tonished at our industry, patriotism and magma
nimity.
Or if, like the National Inleltigencer, this es-
tatlishment were forty years of age, and had in
that period enjoyed the favor and patronage Of
seren administrations, had accumulated subscri-
bers from powerful and wealthy party, had re-
ceived millions Of public money, were now re-
ceving tens of thousands for Register of De-
bates at enormous rates, and for Executive print
ing, and had besides that frequently received
from Northern bankers and manufactu-
rers, then would this paper, even if it were dry,
dull, bigoted and apocryphal, be regarded by all
the superanuated politicians in the country and
their youngest children, as the most respectable,
dignifed, impartial and orthodox paper that
ever went anywhere.
Or if, to take recent instance, we had been
so fortunate as to fall in with the notion of
electinga late illustrious military chieftan, and
on his success it had pleased him to make us his
organ, and if on that announcement fund Of
twenty-five thousand dollars had been provided
and paid up as preliminary, and circulars had
issued to all parts of tho Union, and hun
dred thousand candidates for postmasters and
other Offices had taken the word, and sent for
ward twenty odd thousand subscribers, and to
all that had been superadded som twelve thou
sand dollars year for Executive printing besides,
then might we have aspired to divided empire with
the Inteligencer itself, might have bearded
cabnets,-and the offence would have been
forgiven.
Or even if this paper were like the National
Era, whose editor, desperate enthusiastic as he
is, was cool enough to stipulate for net COM
pensation of three thousand year, for aoeekly
paper, and who has since been furnished with
fifteen thousand subscribers all paying IN ad-
pance, then we should have been treated at least
with the most respectful silence of almost all
our contemporaries.
Or, instead of a paper devoted to Southern
rights, it had been proposed to establish great
Northern organ of Free-sol and Seward,
there had been such notices to announce its
advent as the following, which isone of sew
eral in New York papers, just received.
New SEwARDITE JoURNAL.-It is stated that
a new daily Wing journal is about to be estab-
lished in New York city, to be edited by Mr.
Raymond, associate editor of the Conrier and
Enquirer, who is also Speaker Of the New York
Assembly. The necessary capital, sixty thous.
and dollars, has, it is stated, been contributed BY
some wealthy merchants
Then the submissive editors Of the South
would have been impressed And after having
abandoned California and part of Texas to Sew
ardism, how patriotic they would have been
in making another compromise, with a party
that thus gives the gold, they have plundered to
renewed efforts in the same lucrative business
of bullying the South out of its property and
right.
From all which, it appears that no paper of a
leading character is established in great city,
or central place, without first providing large
fund for its support. even when the most ucra-
tive commercial and government patronage is
secured. In the city of Washington the ex-
pense Of maintaining such an establishment is
greater than elsewhere. 1t is not place of
much business There is very little commercial
is no State patronage-and
the three daily papers now published here, the
hteHigencer, Union, and Republic, nil have large
and lucrative advertisements from the federal
government, besides contracts and occasional
jobs-and could not, and cannot now live with
out them.
Yet the Southern Press was commenced here
about ten months ago, without any provision or
promise Of fund, without government patron
age, without even local--for the little of that
which exists, is naturally withheld from paper
that dares TO think some things preferable even
to Union, and the consequent growth of fed
cral city.
The Southern Press has employed no agent
to obtain subscribers, except in one or two towns.
II has not only received no aid, but it has en-
couptered the opposition Of government, with