Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-05
THE TRINITY JOURNAL.
Q. B. MCDONALD, Editor.
WEAVERVIL
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1855.
PrOpriciy of Convention.

Our venerable friend of the Marysville News
thinks there is no necessity for editorial con-
vention to enact reformation nor do we think
that there is, generally, but the pleasure and
profit Of such asscmblage, no reform contem-
plated, would compensate for all expense and loss
of time. We, of the mountains, want plausible
excuse to go somewhere we want to meet and
talk to persons whose bright thoughts command
our respect we want to see what manner Of men
they are, whether they are short or tall, fat or
lean, genial or Grabbed in the flush of youth and
hope, or sliding down the dcclivity of age.
We agree with our friend in speaking highly
of our professional brethren in this State no
where else has the vocation that proud exata-
ton which follows sohriety, courtesy and mental
culture the profession in California is singular
ly free from nebriating vagabondage, and is only
in one or two instances disgraced by deiaming
persons irresponsible, cowardly and debauched.
By common consent Of respectable journals such
persons are not recognized in controversy, but
are regarded as lepcrs of community with whom
no clean person chooses to wrestle This rule
was, we believe, first observed by the Sacramento
man, and it has become the policy of all journals
of refinement. In youth example taught us 70
look on newspaper editors as drunken black
guards; we saw nothing of that refinement which
generally characterizes the country press of this
state, and which has, in this new country, made
the vocation of an editor influential and respected.
Observation, in two or three instances, has CON
Al.
age talent, cannot be more than tolerated in a
California community, and that his writings are
without influence or usefulness. We are convin-
ced that in this profession, more than any other,
there is no hope for common drunkard; the
exctements and annOyances of the business pro-
woke excess until the clamorings of his bowels
drown the admonitions of reason and society,
and then the man of intellectual refinement is
picked from the gutter and thrust aside from the
derisive gaze of the community. His influence
is gone, and feeling the degradation Of having
been crazer in the dirty alleys of vice, he be-
comes misanthropic, abusive and untruthful; and
while his brain is still Shiny with the tracks Of
derium monsters, he follows, by fitiul journeys
down the dark, hopeless trail to that refuge where
people of inferior powers throw dirt on his
remains.
We rejoice at the sobriety, courtesy and exal
ted character of state press, and in friendly
convocation we shall feel proud of place among
men of the north, who by older citizenship have
made the northern press formidable. We are
proud of our contemporaries of Marysville, Shasta
and Yreka, and shall feel that in their society we
have assurance of considerations Let's have a
convention in which all may, for u time forget
the cares of business, anmosities of profess
onal life, and anXieties for worldly prosperity.
Let the horse on the treadmill, for little while,
set feet on solid ground.