The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-30


at once.
THE RURAL EDITOR RAMPANT-Several of the
whose conductors are shaking violently in their
shoes over the remarkably slim chances of their
faction in the coming election, are very loud in
their abuse of this journal and its conductor.
Bennett is declared to be great scoundrel, and
Buchanan no better BENEFITS offence is that
be has endeavored to manage" the Connect
cut election so as to bring about triumph for
the Union, the constitution and the laws over
treason, fanaticism, Sewardism, Wendell Phil
lipsism, John Brownism, and Nibuneism gene.
rally. The New York merchants who have
contributed to the election fund are "merce.
nary wretches" and 'low-lived capitalists"
The President is alluded to in language equally
refined, choice and elegant
Now, all this rigmarole amounts to nothing,
so far as the parties mentioned are individually
concerned. The fact that Bennett, under any
circumstances, could manage an election in an
adjoining State, affords the strongest proof of
the ineficiency of the press of that State, and
further evidence Of that tremendous power
| which the enemies of the HERALD accord to this
journal. Bennett is Talleyrand, Louis Napo.
| leon, Metternich, Rothschild and Mephistophiles
rolled into one man. The Admirable Crichton,
according to these philosophers, was fool to
| the editor of the HERALD, who regulates the
affairs of the lumbermen Of Maine, the manu-
facturers of Connecticut, the merchants of New
York, the cotton planters of the South, the
miners Of California, the land and railway opera.
tors of the West, as well as the federal govern
ment at Washington, as one would do a job of
printing, "with neatness, accuracy and des.
patch"
So we are obliged to the rural editor for his
compliments; but at the same time we must
discharge our duty to the public, and reprove
him and his breed, (they are nearly all alike,)
for the use of coarse language, which they pick
up in low grogshops. The rural editor repre-
sents that class of persons into whose hands by
some inscrutable dispensation of Divine Provi-
dence pens have been put only to show how
far ignorance and stupidity may degrade an
honorable profession that should be ex-
clusively confined to scholars and gentlemen.
The rural editor has not the slightest concep-
ton of the heavy responsibility which rests
upon the conductor Of free press. He never
conducts free press. His press is prostituted
to the service of clique of small country poll
ticians, who use the editor as they smoke
| segar He makes up the news for his pa
per entirely from the metropolitan journals,
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| from which he has stolen in the next. Once or
twice in year the poor fellows masters give
him little money, and he comes to the me-
| tropolis on mixed tour of business and
pleasure. His business is begging for adver.
tisements among the "mercenary wretches'
and low.lived capitalists" of New York, and
his pleasure is an exploring expedition through
the Five Points, Church or Mercer street, and
generally bringing up "drunk and disorderly"
in the station house. 1t is very rare that the
rural editor sees the inside OF q gentleman's
house in this city. He generally goes away
with his souvenirs of the slums, and describes
New York as Sodom, and his little village as
Paradise. If, however, some good natured per-
son, in moment of extreme tenderness, invites
the rural editor to dinner, he Immediately
writes full and particular account of the
house, its inmates, what they eat drink and
wear, how much plate they have, and, in fact,
every detail that can be gathered by active
exercise of sharp inquisitorial faculties.
| At home the rural editor generally SUBJ
sists upon eleemosynary contributions, and
his highest literary achievement is
the connection of puff for new
tavern or an elaborate description of the
town pump. So long as he can get his
liquor free, and occasionally pocket a bit of
the spoils tossed to him by some sympathetic
politician, he is as happy as any old niger on
Southern plantation, and about as brilliant.
The Connecticut editors generally may con-
slider Themselves Brady-typed in this sketch.
Next to the political parson, the political rural
editor is the greatest hnmbug Of the day; ana
the very best things that the Chevalier Barnum
could get to make q new run to his Museum
would be fine specimens Of the Connecncus eoi'
| tor and the Connecticut parson. They would
however, need deal of watching to keep them
out of the station house.