Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-03-18
Valedictory.

sA Valedictory.
BY reference to the card vt the head
Of this column, it will be seen that, with
the present number, closes our connex-
ion with the Tribune Dc 1slegraph-
/ Under such circumstances, custom has
created asort necessity that we should
bow ourself out of the chair we have
occupied for some time, with formal
"valedictory." We are not jealous
| follower OF customs or fashions, and
were there no other inducement, we
| should hardly think it worth while to
write this article, but the fact is, this
severlng OF so many pleasant ties,
| 8wakes emotions that call for express
tslon. &
4 a little more than FIVE years ago, we
pitched our tent in the pleasant places
Of Kenosha, with the calculation then,
that it should not again be struck
i Most Of that time, we have been in
agreeable editorial intercourse with the
good people of Ksnosha City and Co
Pleased with our chosen and adopted
home, our sympathies were soon warm,
, ! y enlisted in its advancement and pros.
4 perity. Kenosha, with her superior
natural advantages, her pleasant homes
fer beautiful streets, her delightful walks
and shaded parks, her institutions oil
: learning, and her public improvements
came to be as dear to us as ''the apple
OF our eye" We have watched her
progress with perhaps too partial eye,
land in our Partially may have been led
into exaggeration in our anticipations
and expectations,
\ Our readers, we believe, viii admi,
that We have not been backward in the
support of whatever measure promised
to advance the interests of our city and
county. No public or private enter.
, prise has been knowingly suffered tc
languish for the want of the encourage
ment of the Press. 1t is thus that we
/ have so Unidentified our sympathies with
the ''weal or woe,'' of Kenosha, that i
becomes almost painful to sever the ii,
that has bound US.
t Our faith in the efficacy of the publ,
s improvements that we have seen com
? menced, and that we have urged along
: with what power lay in our pen, to pro
. mote the growth and add to the pros
c peiity and wealth of our city, has no
u been lessened. Enterprise and energ.
rightly directed, will soon complet,
!, those Improvements, and their compile
ton will be new era in the advance
c Iment of Kenosha. Our connexion Will
e the press severed, we may not raise GU
: voice in urging on the various meas
ures that in our view promise SO much
t but the will and the wish remain, ant
wherever our lot may be cast, our hear
g must often turn with undiminished in
i terest to the progress of the "Parl
g City"
To the many readers with whom W,
4 have SO long had such Ito us) pleasan
c intercourse, We must say goodbye
. We have never failed to endeavor, t.
greet them each week with something
! Entertaining, mstructing orpleasing, ant
, if we have not always succeeded, it mus
be charged to the score of il9bilit,
= rather than intent. The editor though
flpersonaily a stranger to every one of hi
readers, comes in the course of years t
+ regard them all as acquaintance, ane
J when many of them have become per
> sonal friends, the tie is still strong
3 er. Every item he writes, every selec
/ ton he makes, is special message sen
/ to this or that reader, and the effect i
y calculated beforehand. He learns thei
tastes and predictions, and NATURAL,
and inyoluntarily enters into them all
). though varied and dissimilar.
n In taking our leave, we must com
Q mend the Tribune DC Telegraph to thu
: lcontinued good viii of the Republican
!. of kenssha. An older head and al
@ ADLER hand, may take our place, but no
l. truer, to the great cause of Huiaal
. Freedom, for which we have ever bat
!. ted. This is crisis in the politica
! history of our country, when the tru,
Q laborer in the cause, is unwilling to sta,
: his hand. Nor shall we retire from tn,
: fght-it win only be change of posi-
:, tion-a falling into the ranks OF til,
+ great array of Freedom, instead of be
' being sentinel "upon the outer walls.
c We shall ever be found true to the cause
: whether it be as al editor, or as pri
yate worker.
5 To our brethren of the Press with
, whom We have been connected by the
: ties Of the "craft," We must also say
goodbye, for the present. If We have
t forgotten the courtesy due to any of our
contemporaries, we must ask pardon, and
TO those who have allowed their party