The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-09


publish, at Cleveland, Ohio, an anti slavery
paper, under the somewhat equivocal lille of
the .Aliensd american.
One would have supposed that champion
of freedom would have hailed with delight the
accession Of a colored co-lsborer. But when the
| Rev. WIN. II. Day, ''the black or mulatto"
editor, rushes fervid and pungent from his la
bors to embrace the Tribune, that eccentric
print administers the following douchs, which
no doubt chilled the long -heeed brother to his
exHemities: ~ ...- ,-.
eve regard the issuing of this paper as mis-
take and shall take the risk of offending our color
ed brother editorial by telling him 3d. He may
make a good paper, but good anti slavery papers
were already abundant in and about Cleveland,
while. IL none but African editorship would answs or
the purpose, there Fred. Douglass's Paper on
the one side and The Voiee Of the Fugihu< on the
other, each issued within few hours ride of
Cleveland, and neither of them above the need Of
vigorous editorial aid and few hundred subscri-
I bers Had Mr.. Day seen fit to form connexion
with one OF these papers, writing for it and being
allowed at cost price as many copies as he could
dispose of he would have acted more sensibly than
he has done" t
| We ask our readers to note the significant
sneer-''If none but african editorshp would
answer the purpose" Why, cannot the "aliened
Americans" be content with the Tribune and
the Albany Jo,nnalT Those faithful organs
publish the reports of the underground railroad
and chronicle the triumphs of Mrs. SrowE,
with "more than oriental scrupuosity" Be-
sides. their earlier services should never be for
gotten. Did they not receive and forward
Longheels out of the land Of bondage in box
marked chung up" to keep from impairing the
| symmetry of his features by MASKING his nose,
and all without any commissions whatsoever
Did not the Tribune go to England and take
an interest in the patent of NJ. CAUssEN, for
turning flax into cotton, thereby rendering the
further culture of that pernicious staple un-
necessary, and enabling it to expend $4,000
per week in linen paper wherein TO print that
/ philanthropic journal2 Have not both the
| prints referred to sacrificed the party to which
they belong, to enable Longheels TO ride in
the same car with white people, instead of dis
gusing him in section of stove pipe, or stow
| ing him in the hold Of schooner And would
they not have sacrificed the Union itself for
the same pious obect2 Why, then, will
nothing but African editorship" content
them? We must say that we regard this
the blacklist act of disorgsnization which has
| been presented IN these days of dstrust and
| abandonment, and we do not hesitate to ex-
press the opinion that the cucumber Skinned
ingrates should, with tears of contrition, either
stop the .4hsnsd american, or tender its
editorial control to the outraged journals whose
cause we have espoused
! Having, however, SO freely Showed" know
ledge unto DAY, the Tribune proceeds to demon
strste the proposition, "that as one swallow does
not make summer, so one nigger cannot makes
newspa per-" Though the proposition seems as
strong as the summer sanctum of the reverend
editor, We will yet add the argument by which
it is supported
ga colored man evinces a excellent faculty of
talking-f you please against slavery; a circle of
admirers gather around him, and, being unable to
make a lawyer or doctor of him ofr-hand, conclude
that ne must be just the thing for editor. So
they buy him press and types, an ink,tand and
pair OF she&s, and set him up in journal. But
experience soon proves that, as zone swallow does
not make summer SO one negro cannot una ke a
good newspaper-no, nor one white man, either
tie may worry on for years, but his columns will
soon be gaunt, his brain overworked and his sub.
scr1bers hanging only because they hate to leave
him, not because they want to read bic paper"
This dlscouraging picture charitably sup
presses all alluson to those pulls of the wool. |
kicks of the shin, and whacks with the shille- |
lab, which our colored contemporary may ex pect
by way of contributions to his yeurnal
But to put the honors of organism entirely
beyond the reach of the negro neophyte, the |
Tribune winds up with the following conclu- |
slye illustration:
The writer hereof had other ambition in |
ooyhood than that of attaining usefulness and DO.
sitlon as an editor; the studies and efforts of his
NE nave all tended to his end Yet he lac IA very
many qualifications essential to the ma king Up of
apowerfu and useful journal-lacks cosmicaI cri.
teal agricultural, financial, foreign-political mu
steal, and other KIN edgc, which can only be
supplied through division of editorial labor. We
seriously doubt that any living m knows enough
and thatany lifetime ia long enough to master the
various knowledge demanded in the editorship of |
a good newspaper
we should think that this lecture ought to ad- |
monlsh the ambitious Sambo that he is not vet |
hit for the editorial mysteries; and if he does not
desire to be reclaimed as fugitive; tried by |
gu uuPotneu JUL duu WltnOul moo TO rescue, |
or paragraph to defend, in the language of
SHAKsPEARE, be reshipped ''into the land. as
1t he were nonsuch," we would counsel that
ne should, with humble voice and contrite |
spirit, acknowledge his manifold sins OF pre- |
sumption, and surrender the honors of organ |
ism to his bette,s of the Tribune and Journal |
.. rfH
The Late Melancholy Railroad Disaster.
In our columns this morning will be found |
further particulars Of this sad event We have |
Perused them with mingled feelings of regret,
horror, and Indignation. To PREJUDICE the
cause of an accused man, or number Of men, is |
far from our accustomed rule of action /; and TO |
the conductor, engineer, and brldge-,ender con-
cerned In this most lamentable affair. we would
extend the most ample opportunities for a full
and fair investigation of the charges upon
which they will probably be arraigned. Blu, !
death, in its most fearful form, has come to