The southern press., 1851-04-10
Ths National Era.

This paper eonstruss our statement, that we
have circulation Of $500, to include all our
ii issuss daily, tri-wsekly and weekly" This is
a mistake. If all the issues are included, the
circulation in one week would be over sixteen
thousand.
The Era also says:
The "Press" in the same editorial, states that
ssdssperats enthusiast" the editor of the Era
II. he WAS scool enough to stipulats for net COM
penaation of three thousand year, for weekly
paper" and "has since been furnished with fifteen
thousand subscribers, all paying in advance. :"
When We speak Of the "domestc institutions" Of
our neighbors, we pay them the compliment or
taking their own statements for authority. Had
the Pyess" followed our example, it would at
least have kept sswithin hail" of the truth "Des-
psrAts enthusissts'' as we may have been, we have
never been desperate" enough TO imagine that
we could make money or reputation, do good to
ourselves or others, by advocating slavery as the
source of tho greatest wealth, power, lntellgence,
and refinement, and the surest safeguard OF the
peace, purity, and happiness of society. As to
ssthe three thousand year" there is little mis-
take. When the Era was started we stipulated
with its proprietors for fifteen hundred year.
This sum we received the first year, with the ad-
dition Of three hundred and 6fty dollars. At the
beginning Of the second year, we bought the
whole concern, paid for it in full with interest," at
tho close Of that year, and have been the sole
owner ever since "Fifteen thousand subscribers.
peuinr in cdua,,ee," have not been FURNISHED" +"
US, but, to adopt the phraseology of our neigh
bors our circulation from the time we became
proprietor of the paper, has advanced spontane-
ousy" from eight thousand five hundred TO fifteen
thousand.
Well, it does not appear from this how near
we came within hail" of the truth. 1t might
appear If we were informed how much was paid
for the Era by the editor, and whether its pro-
fits the second year paid for it. In that event. the
editor has secured for himself much better than
three thousand year-very much better, pro
yided the fifteen thousand subscribers remain un-
abated
The editor of the Era says he has never been
desperate enough to imagine he could make
money or reputation, do good to himself or
others, by advocating slavery as the source Of
the greatest wealth. power, intelligence and re-
fincment, and the surest safe guard of the peace,
purity and happiness Of society. We rather in
tiuated he was not 80 desperate as might be i'm
agined 1t is neither desperate nor unusual to
make money and reputation by ministering to
fanaticism, ignorance and prejudice, by pervert-
ing TERMS by suppressing the truth, and by in
venting pretexts for sectional and political Gu
pidity, aggression and spoliation.
The Era denies Indignantly that it opposed
the extra-allowance to the editor Of the Union
This is quite natural The Era would be the
most ungrateful of men to oppose extra COM
pensation to the Union for the important services
rendered to the anti-slavery cause by the support
of the Compromise measures, even if the Era is
dissatisfied they did not go farther.
t4g EDWARD VIM. JOHNSTON, esq, recently
of this city, has assumed the editorial charge of
the Richmond Wing, and in Tuesdays issue,
makes his inaugural address to his readers.
The new editors salutatory is of serio-
comic character written in vein of levity, with
no small infusion of vinegar in the ink, which
may be accounted for by his recent contributions
to the Louisville Journal, under the signature
of II Secretario.
In defining his position, he declares himself
"a thorough National Whig,' adding:
al am almost totally without personal ram
cors, and shall indulge none but public resent
ments; among which, as perfectly legitimate,
shall claim some scope for the deEunciation of
disunonsm, no matter whether it be that Of
the followers of Mr.. Charles Sumner or of John
C. Calhoun"
Now, in the same spirit in which this declara-
ton was penned, we will take the liberty of re-
marking, that g the denunciation" of the dis
unionism of the followers Of JOHN c. CALHoUN"
will come with rather a bad grace from a gen
tIeman, whom we remember, during the whole
Notification controversy, as one of the most
Jealous, thorough-going and denuucatory of the
then " followers of JOHN c. CALHOUN" in South
Carolina, where he was then resident, and n
prominent political editor. A gentleman, in
fact, whose reputation rs political writer rests
chiefly on his contributions to, and conduct Of,
the Columbia rs. CO. Telescope-the colleague
and compeer of the Mercury in that struggle,
and by far the bitterest and most violent of all
the organs Of that party in its assaults on the
opposition. AS editor of that print, such was
@ the scope" given by Mr.. JOHNSTON to his "d de-
nunciations" of the Union men Of that day
such the acerbity Of his structures upon the then
assailants and opponents of JOHN c. CALHous,
that the leaders of the party had TO expcstulate
frequently with him, as to the impocy of such
severity in his structures: as we have been
credibly informed. A reference to the old files
of the Telescope will show how well warranted
were such expostulatons for no quarter was
asked or given. Whether Mr.. JOHNSTON still re-
CARDS Qualification as the rightful remedy" OF
not, we are quite confident that he will never
be able to answer his own previous editorials ir
vindicaton of State rights and State sovereignty
for they displayed an ability which we have not
observed in his subsequent writings, since he re
pudiated those doctrines which claimed the sup
port of his early manhood.
We revive these "reminiscences through nc
unkind feeling to the new editor Of the Wing
and without questioning the sincerity OF Tho
cocv;ct;npc which hava uroupht Snch n chance