Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-04

/ Any man Of tolerabiy fair sense and reasonable
powers of observation, who will spehd fewyears 70
the editorial business, will see and hear good many
queer things besides being bledto estimate more
That be will find good deal Of humbug among pom.
tcians there is little doubt but is to be
wheter he will find an ,iots more of that sort 81
thing in politics than in any other walk OF lie.
Caoeat e,nptor is safe rule In all things Look out
for what you get, and don't buy pig in poke,
Among the assumptions to be met with, and which
may be regarded as amusing simply disgusting,
according they viewed is the small affectation
of class Of shallow politicians, one halt OF whose
stock trade consists in sneeIng at the newspaper
press of the country and its conductors. They don't
care-so they say-what the papers say-they never
read such things, etc. We never saw man IN the
habit of talking who not sensitive in fact as
though he had been fayed and every touch was on
the raw. We never saw really able and induen.
tal paper to the management of which more tact
and talent were not devoted every year than wonid
up several such politicians with stock for me-
time. and there are few really able and independent
papers of any standing that have not been forced to
build up and pull down many such great men as are
those who think it essential of their greatness 10
sneer at the press.
We notice good deal of such stuff in connection
with the investigation of the charge OF corruption
recently brought forward in Congress- good deal
of this acctation the part Of obscure practIt'on
noboaies and who have neither talent information,
honesty sufficient fer the requirements of success
full journalism any more than they have the as:ro-
nomical knowledge requisite to calculate the ecPses
| for the year 1857.
| Such persons belong to that class who talk about
quitting down. such and such papers and generally
succeed in stopping their own copy and reading
copy borrowed from their neghbor or neighbours Or
course paper worth prospecting was ever affected
in any way by such things
| We hear every now and then stale platitudes re-
peated about the power of the presssort OF 4th OF
July hurrahs, in at one car and out at the other.
There is doubt TRUTH portion oftruth at least,
in all this. Such power is within the reach OF the
press but to WELD this power it must first respect
itself and enforce respect from others. Its conduct
must abstain from indulgence in that coarse IN
| vective and bitter elimination towards each other
which is the too disgrace of our Journalism
and they must mark for what they are worth, all
those sailowpated political upstarts Who think 1t
very smart to reflect upon those by whose exertions
alone such people enabled to raise their heads
above the political dismal swamp to which they
| egitimately belong. There is doubt about it.
the press is responsible for manufacturing big men
out of rather small material and these men, like beg
CARS on horseback somewhat inclined to ride to
the devil, or like overgrown babies think they can
not only stand alone, but actuallys afford to throw
mud at their indulgent dry nurses. the editors
! An amusing and ridiculous instance OF this sort
of trash is the fanfaronade delivered some time since
in Raleigh by Mr.. Rayner-a politician whose course
deser yes all the reprobaton with which it has been
! visited, but who is not entitled by influence, ability,
anything ese to the attention he has received, OF
to the prominence which that attention has confer
red upon him for the time being. His TRADE is o.
hang their heads and for such men to indulge II
language of contempt and disparagement towards
onehaf of the press the State is simply contempt
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