The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-07


Upon the tiemulous ladder of emotion.
Even as a child, that, after pining
For the sweet absent mother-hears
Her voice-and, round her neck ent~inins
Young arms, ventsal his soul in tears
SO, by harsh Custom far eStranged,
Along the glad and guileless track,
To. o.cchildhoods happy home unchanged,
snatohd from the cold and formal world, and pressed
BY the Great Mother to her glowing breast!
From the December Number OF the Knckerboeker.
"Be Emphatic JOnes--Touch sEm OIL
the Raw"
All papers, Republican, Democrat
American, Wing, Conservative, all
are full of Niger as we write in late
October-'0ld JOHN Brown COOKE
'NIGoER--'NIGeER, COOKE Old JOHN
Brown; these are the changes which are
rung in all the journals Of the day, East,
West, North, and South There is no
political 'ofense in the sketch; and the
Republicans themselves, we venture to
say, will laugh at it as heartily as their
opponents. We clip, here an there, but
with no detriment to the story. Jones
was II jonrneyman-printer, upon The
tcnius Republican newspaper, nom
inally edited by popular and able law
Yer, who, however, could not do his duty
to his clients and the paper too: either
his briefs or his editorials must come
emely of: and the paper suffered in con-
sequence. The proprietor, who, although
a good manager and practical man,
knew nothing at all about editing; he
wouldn't trust himself to select para
graph from another paper or accept for
publication any thing which did not ema-
nate from the pen Of the editor And
now behold he was in trouble The
neglect of the ostcnsiblc editor was
greatly reducing the subscription-list
That worthy was out of town, engaged III
IN Important lawsuit; and the proprietor,
being in despair, hastens after him.
Ho left the city hurriedly in search of
his editor, but was himself delayed a day
beyond his appointed time to return, In
this state OF affairs there was but one
course to pursue. Jones was the Clever
fellow of the establishment and he was
instructed to get out tho issue of The
Gcnius, during the temporary absence Of
both editor and owner. The following is
Hn exact copy of the letter of instruc.
ton received from the absent proprietor,
together with the postscript by the regular
editor
Poseyville, Oct 2, 1859.
Dear Jones; Can't come home till morn
ing. Got out best paper you can Write
short articles and stir up the party for
not giving their organs more assistance.
"H. e."
up, S.-By the Editor-'Bc emphatic,
Joncs!--touoh EN- on the raw!"
"a. J. L."
The Genius" was Republican paper,
OF the broadcast stripe" and that Jones
did not exactly like, "nor never did" for
he was strong Democrat, and had on
several occasions reasoned with the
publisher upon the propriety and policy Of
changing the politics Of the paper No
proposition Of this sort, however could be
entertained. "The Genius" owed its
existance to the Republican party. Its
politics was its life-blood. Nevertheless,
d very great privilege was here extended
to Jones. He was instructed to stir EN-
up to be emphatic" and to touch 'em
on the raw" he had "full powers" "
"At length the deed was done the
next "Genius' appeared with the following
startling editorial
THE NIGGFR. admire him We
like him. We love him. We 20 in for
him We have but one idea, and that ID
Niger. We have but one dream, AMI
that is ditto. We preach from but one
text, and that is ditto. We sing but one
song, and that is ditto We play but one
tune, and that is ditto. We 20 our full
length on Niger. We are all
over ditto. We arc ditto in the morning
We are ditto at noon. We are ditto at
night We are ditto all the time We
live on ditto. We sleep on ditto, Well
lie on ditto And yet, would you believe
it, reader, "The Genius don't pay'
While the writer Of this stirring cdito
rial was enjoying, next morning, a pleas
iug rcverie at his success in editing, the
oGcc.door was thrown violently open by
tho exaspcrated proprietor:
-"You Internal scoundrel!' he fairly
roared, rushing toward Jones; but before
be could finish his sentence, the latter had
made his escape. The editor, however,
arrived Just in time to catch him at the
sucet-deor.
J-o.N-E-s" he shouted, at the same
time shaking copy of the paper in his
mce Look hercl What have you doneY'
II reckon have touched en- on the
raw said tho bewildered Jones.
BY this time the proprietor, boiling
over with rage, had joined the equally ex-
oited editor.
You have killed the,paper" exclaimed
the proprietor
you have ruined me-" followed the
editor.
"Bow did you come to write such a
savage article2' asked the proprietor.
'1'o stir 'em up littlel mildly an
swered Jones.
"rhc thing is outrageous said the
editor.
ut is a little emphatic" replied Jones.
At this point there was lively time,
cqnscquent upon rush Of Republicans
and Democrats to the Office of THE &C.
Mus The former were full of indigna-
lion, and stamped and raved; the Demo
crats, on the contrary, were .jubilant