Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-10-10

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ever quarter, comes out editorially: ant
thus. by making the paper everything
and those who write it nothing. the char
acter and the awe of the Journal gain.
The English like it for its complete
information. a statement of fact in tht
''Times' is as reliable as citation from
lansard. Then, they Ike It's indepen.
dencc they DO not know, when they
take 1T up. what their paper is going t,
say: but above all. for the nationalit,
and confidence of its tone. 1t thinks
for them all it is their understanding
and days ideal daguerreotyped When
see them reading its columns, they
seem to be becoming every moment more
British. 1t has the national courage,
not rash and pctulcnt. but considcrafe
and determined. No dignity or wealth
is shield from its assaults. 1t attacks
duke as readily as policemen, and
with the most provoking airs of condc.
scenslon. 1t makes rude work the Board
of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops
is still less safe. One bishop fares bad
ly for his rapacity. and another for his
bigotry. and a third tor his courtlincss
/ 1t addresses occasionally hint to
Majesty itself, and sometimes hint
which is taken. There is an air of free
dom even in their advertising columns,
which speaks we'll for England to for
eisner. On the days when arrived in
London IN 1871, read among the d,iiv
announcements, ono offering Il reward Of
fifty pounds to any person who would
pat n7b,em1a, described by nam9 and
title, lat a member Of Pariimcnt, into
any county jail i'll England, he having
been convicted Of obtaining money un-
der false pratences.
Was never such arroJancy as the tone
Of this paper. Every sip Of Oxouian or
Gantabrigian who writes his inst leader.
assumes tAat we sublaei the e.rth before
we sat down to write thi, particular
"Iimas > One would think, the world
was on It's kn Is to tae fines otiicc,
for Its daily breakast Dut this ar,o-
ganee is caeulttel Who would care for
It, if it 'sarmised,' or dared confess, or
'veotured to predi.t,' &c. No; II is 50,
and 50 it shall be
The morality and patriotism of the
"Tlmrs' claims only to be representative,
and Ly no means IDEAL. 1t gives the All
gument, not OF the M j7r}ty, but oi tAe
Commanding cass. lis editor, know bet,
ter th4n to defend Russia, II Austria, or
En- lish vested rig It's, on abstract grounds
Bat they give voice to the as who, at
the moment Ia the lead ana they have
an instinct for finding W ere TIE power
now hes, which Is etefnaIiy 81 lt.ne It's
banks. Sympathsns with, and speaking
for the cisss that rules the hour, YET, be-
ing app,is1d os every ground sSclt, every
Chafust resolution, every Church slttab-
bic, every strike III the mills, they detect
the first trenlblings OF change fhey
watch the hard and hi ter strugeI Of the
authors ot each literal movements, year
by ycar,-warcLin5 tlcm only to ta4nt
and o5suuct them, ,-untii, at last, when
they see that tncse have established their
fact, that power s on the point 9t' passing
to them, - they st4i,e in, with the voice
oi monarch, astoaish those whom they
sueaor. as much a, those vii nj the; deser;
and make victory sure. OF course, the
aspirants see that the "Time," is one of
the Foods of fortune, not to be won by
Winning their cause.
punch" is equally an expre sion of
Fnrlsh good sense, as the "London
lines" 1t is the comic version Of the
same sense. Many Of its carieatures ate
eopal TO the best pamph!ets. and will convey
to he eve in an instant the popular view
which was taken of each turn of public
affairs. Its sl.ct hes are usually m1dc by
masterly hands. and sometimes with oe-
ms: the de,jrbt Of every class. because
un;form v o,,ided bv that tas.e which is
tvranncaI in Enol.nd. 1t is new trait
Of the Nineteenth century, that the wit
and bunor of F,,oland. a. in Punch. 50 in
the bumorists. .Jerrold, Dickens, Thacbs-
cray. Hood. have taken The direction of
humanity and freedom
The ..Timcs," like every important in
sttnt;on shows ,hc way TO n better. 1t
i a I;y,no index Of the colossal British
mower Its existence honors the people
who dare to print all they know, dare to