Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-10-03

o. If a newspaper Editor is ever justifia-
bic in honest boasting, it is when his lators
receive generous appreciation, and his paper
a generous patronage, from the public, to whose
instruction and enjoyment he devotes his ener-
gles. Few there are among us, assuredlv,
while Il " goodc compane" of us poor wait
crs on time and tide are treated, for the most
part, as though we were born under some mu-
llgnant star. and were "villains by ncccsstv,
and fools By heavenly compulsion," and pack
! horses and draft mules by "thc custom of the
realm" We have sometimes thought of re-
commenting to our Frce-soil friends TO incor-
poratc in their Platforms a sort Of codicll to
the Wllmot Provso, declaring that Slavery or
unrewardcd seryitudc, in an Editors den. is in
direct contraycntion Of the first postulatc OF
the Declaration of Independence. We are
very certain that when the tiger abolitonsts
get through with the work Of clearing the
skirts Of those for whose sins they are in no
wise responsible, from the stain of "Slaycry,"
! they can find no better safcty-yaye for the e.
cape Of their surplus and hot humanity than
! by aborng for tie emancipation of Editors.
There is hardly :" free Niger" amonr us 4:
and our "task-mastcrs" are generally as re
markabc examples of incomplete physiological
organization, from the absence of bowels. "
as can be found South of Mason and Dyou's
| Linn a. |,
of the hardest kind of work on dict of hoe
cake and hominy, and "wlnter through " in ba-
bImcnts that arc "bloomcrs" at both ends,
If any of lis complain, we are told that we
are "pecular institution" needed in the
machinery of civllisation, and are even bul-
wark of Freedom" Ito do the ox-work for Free.
DOM as Mr.. Calhoun insisted in regard to our
Southern bredren," and that any effort on
our part to alter our position would be rcyolu.
tlonary and dangerous, and it is ten chances tC
one that somebody who has Mt paid for 1t il
five years, stops his paper! This numorou.
class of editors, (''of which we are one o
them," as Counsellor O'Botharum remarks
never have anything to Lrag of, except now
and then basket of turnips, or a squash tina
would make good-sized cradle, land usclu
Tor nothing elsch or pair of wooden mittcni
big enough for the hands of Town clock, o
a couple Of enormous bccts grown togcthc
like the Siamese TWINS, or, perhaps, an over
grown apple or two, THAT always commences
to decomposc in the mlddlc) and that the Ed
ltor Is expected TO keep on his table, for crhi
btion, so long that when he attempts to eat i
he finds his face suddenly buried in it to hi,
ears Extremely benevolent people sometimes
favor us Country chaps with such things to bras
of, and we are expected to make about as mucl
fuss over them as the English did over The Bat
tie Of Waterloo. But as to large and growing
subscription lists,-bcss your innocent heart
Subscrptlon-lists in most Countryplaccs an,
Itu'I-grown to begin with If an Editor work,
faithfully, he may possibly hope to lin |, n
the end of twenty years or so, that the birth
and deaths are about balanced on his books.
But We will pursue this aspect Of tho
case no further lest our readers should heril
to think we are not IN earnest. We turn TO Tin
pleasanter topic which alone we intended t
mention in the outset. The following para
graphs we cut from our friend RAYMoND'
.NtO York Daily Times of the 9th. 1t is
pleasure to record 50 PLAIN an ms ance of cqut
able desert and reward Mr.. RAYMOND says
AZ This is the ninth number Of the NEW
loES pNlLf TNEs, aud 1t has now d rcgult
. paying crcula'lonof over TEN THOUSANl