New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-03


Paitor. So they buy him press and types, an ink
,tsnd and pair of shears AID SCI him up in journal
Rut e1per;suce ,oon proves that IS one sEaos does
Dot make = summer, 90 one negro cannot make sooa
pe~spaper-no, nor one white man ei'Der' ne m-!
xoTry Cd for ears but his columns vii soon be g1aa'
bis brain overv0fked and his subscribers hanging on
only because tbeJ hate leave him not because they
want 70 read Lis paper Under such Circumstances he
does not 90 much aid the cause 70 which his paper Is
devoted Is IL aids him He leans upon and lives 81 It
not it By bin.
We speak from much experience ard we assert EnAt
the JUDGMENT Of rejecting readers must approve Ine
vTtsrhereof had other ambition in %! nood 'nan taat
Of attaining usefulness and position as sn LloI' the
studies and efforts Of mis- life have all tended to this end
Yet be lacks very many qualifications essen'-i 70 the
making Nd of powerful and useful jOurnsl-iacks Clas
scal Critical Agricultural, Financial Foreign-Poticai
Musical and other knowledge hich only be supplied
through division of Editorial labor We seriously
doubt that any living man knows enough and that one
lifetime is long enough to master the various knowledge
demanded in the e0itorship of good newspaper
Ofcourse, we know that periodical devoted to some
single topics or class of topcs-Agriculture' Temper
snce. Abolition or Odd-F loEShip-requires far mar
rover range Of capacities aud may perhaps be con-
Quoted with decent efficiency by single Editor such
sheet is not properly q newspaper but series OF
tracts put forth az stated periods ltmiy be very ne
cessary ard very useful but Newspaper Is another
matter And, even in conducting this periodical tract
il is not good for one 10 be alone. he may easily
write oil and have time 20 spare bu' he should have
hours for profourder reading, for mehodca nvestga
ton be should eoy opportunities 81 travel and hearty
communion with bis fenoU.men, for want Of which
some Editors lose all sympathy With the ace 10 which
they i've and drift unconsciousy back into the Nth
Century or thereabouts A life in a closet, even with
printing Office adjacent, is fit preparation for an
Editors responsibilities In no other country ia Edit
orsl labor so excessive so unremtted 10 this where
scissors to great extent do duty instead Of ingesga
ton and study and where the force Of Editorial strc
lures is often obscured by the naccurscy Of reports
and general sloyenliness of management with regard
TO details
But TO return to our Aric-Americans and their jour
nam: There ought to be able organ OF the coOred
Americans centrally located and ably edited, with all
the able members Of the caste contributors la this
paper, Dougasss, Wards, Day's-in short all the
papers now edited by cOlOred men should be merged
and should for the present be supported not only by
all the patronage the Race muster, but by that OF
their earnest friends also. II should employ none but
colored men in any capacity these could be found
qualified to l-not in the spirit Of excusiv-nes's or
caste but in order give the crushed some sort OF
a chance to develop its capacities in the direction OF
Printing. Such paper, paying Ward, Douglass Day
McCune Smith and other cOOred men OF unquestioned
ability fair wages for their whole time to be employed
by turns in editing and lecturDg canvassng and cor
Iespobdence oil for the benefit their caste aud OF their
journal which is its sole organ. For journal so con-
Quoted heavy subscription might be obtained not
only in this country, but in Great Britain, Canada,
Jamaica &c. having paid correspondents aud agents
in each. Such journal need never beg for support
Dor accept subscription rendered it as halfway
charity it would be able to counsel aud uplift the
African Race generally, because above the necessity Of
pandering to the preudces interests of any portion
of il. Some time OF other we shall see such journal
established