St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-01-06

or the advancement Of ,"W olnans rights
md the redress ST her wrongs, = than has
since been achieved by allsthe cony entions
which have been held. 4
After the close Of the war, another
Anti-Slavcry paper was started under the
Charge of CHARLES p. SH1RAs, the Pitts
burg Poet, who wrote :. Dollars and
Dimes, and 2" owe no man a Dollar"
1t was called the .Aldatross, and was
most ably conducted; but only lived three
months. ~.
Being in the City one day, d friend
said to us: ...,. ..41s. y
6 The last number Of The AUatross ;,
will be issued next week and we are
without paper again. > '..ts :
After exchanging regrets few mo-
ments, the idea flashed into our mind, and
we exclaimed: t"3 4.x.z =t:sgsss g.
i have a mind to start a paper, my
self; and make one more trial to sustain
an Anti Slavery press here. > ..:z.s - :. =
Starting on a half run, down street, we
overlook Mr.. S. and stating the case to
him, asked what he thought Of our start
ing a paper. He was pleased with the
plan; and we went directly to the Journal
Office, and seeing Mr.. RIDDLE, told him
we were going to start a paper, and call it
the Saturday Tsiter, and wanted him to
print it.
He thought us insane, and said so,
inquired if MIR. S., and our friends knew
our purpose. 1885,,
We told him he did, and for the rest
it was no matter, as any loss we should
incur, would fall on us, personally. He
tried to persuade us, at least, to take
time to think, and give him time to pre-
pare. No printing was done in his Office
except his own paper, and he had not
type and fixtures to get out second; but
we worla get out an Anti-Slavery paper
on the week succeeding the suspension of
the Al6atross. There should be no break
in time-we knew nothing Of any other
printing Office, and he had to print it.
Words were wasted upon us; and we had
never stopped to consider that to edit
and publish a weekly paper, we must
spend large portion of our time in the
City; while we lived two hours ride from
it, in the time. Of good roads; and three
hours a great part Of the year: We did
not stop to think that much Of that time
must be spent in the office where our
paper was issued, in a dingy fve-story
establishment, full of men and boys.
presses, desks and type stands; in a city
where there was not one woman in any
such business, that we we're not yet thirty,
and looked no more than twenty-five,
with soft, countrifed face; and hair
which had distressed us for five years
by the pertinacity with which it refused
to turn gray, long after every hope in life
lay crushed and dead
We did not reflect that he was in the
prime of life, a man Of commanding adj
dress and fascinating manners, that he had
the reputation Of having fallen into some
Of the sins, which public opinion scarce
considers blameable in one of his sex :;
and that the relations We thus ran into,
could scarce fail to awake the voice Of
scandal. ...5
He must have thought of it all, for
again and again he referred to Mr.. S., un-
til We went and brought him there to
sanction our insanity. -
Then he went to work to get out the
Nsitcr. There were delays and difficult
ties; and the day it was announced to
appear, it could not be got off the press
until after night. A crowd filed the
Office and stood on the pavement waiting
for copies. We were correcting proof
until the last moment, in the editorial
room adjoining the Office and it was
eleven o'clock before the people dispersed
and We could leave We had kept a
hired man with us, one. Of the farm hands
very worthy man, to aid us in various
ways, and sec us to the friends house
where we were staying, When we were
ready to start, Mr. FLEEsoN, who was
then clerk in the Office, and who, with
his wife, was on intimate terms in our
family, took his hat, and said jestingly ).
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