The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-07-26
AReporter's speech.

Washington, Major Ben. Perley Poore, OF
the Boston journal, one of the prominep,
reporters and letter writers ut Washington
was called out and said:
| Thanks for this compliment, ladies and
gentlemen, and wish that / could nc.
| knowledge it by pulling out of my pocket a
carefully prepared speech. all ready to be
read when unexpectedly called upon {"
But We who are here at the metropolis, as
| reporters aud correspondents, have so much
to do with the speeches of other people,
that we have neither time nor inclination
to indulge in oratorical displays of our own
| [Applausc. But correspondent is the
last man you should have called upon to
speak, especially after having listened to
eloquent and intensely interesting remarks
from the President, from members of Con.
gress from high officials No monarch.
1t Is said--is u hero to his uuict tie cLan.-
bre---no playgoer should get peep at the
poor devils who shift the scencs-boys who
blow the organ arc never considered "a por-
ton OF tie choir, and if you, ladies and gen
tlcnen, were better acquainted with me
tropolitan usagcs you would know that cor.
respondents are but littlc estcomcd by those
whose good deeds they proclaim, 'nJ to
whose short comings they are charitably
blind. Applause. No correspondent
should ever be called upon to speak, espc
cially when the universal theme is the pro
bable perretuity of the Republic, founded
by him to whose grave We have just made
II pleasant pilgrimage.
In the reporters galleries disunion is re-
gardcd as myth, and Union.saving as a
humbug. Applause and laughter True,
we see the honorable gentlemen beneath Us
indulging in oratoricm and sometimes pu-
gilistic displays, and we send abroad ac-
counts of their heroic conduct, tinted to suit
the political complexion of the newspaper
which is 10 pay Tor the letter. Lau litter. I
But although, like lawyers, VIZ en- lcavor
tn earn our retaining fees, we have orr H.
dividual opinions, and we have no fear, thai
any of these com5atantS Will i;,l 10 .lceip
for their pay and mileage to the Tinted
States, 50 long AS we see our guclphS aud
ghibbc!ncs 3alk arm in arm ilom their
arenas, ca, tratcrnally at the same festive
boards, niugle in the ma Is OF the same
dance, or play poker at the same II, le
Bois,erous laughter. You cannot per
suadc correspondent that there is any
ground for alarm-cs specially one who, ii &c
myself, comes from old Massachusetts,. from
whose rock k-beand coasts the ship of State
was launched upon the troubled waters of
political strife, and whose sons will ever be
ready To- aid i'll repcllins boardcrs or in sup
pressing uutiny. Three cheers for Mas
sacl usctis
You, editors of the Mississippi valley,
have it in your power to stop all this uncall
cd for excitement, if you will just deter
mine not to publish ore word about any
poll who will even alludc to the posi-
biiiy # knocking into pi this political form
which our fathers imposed with 50 much
care, and on ich so many glorious i'm
pres1ons Of prosperity, and power and
good feeling have cen worked off. TCheers
Your pen. scissors and paste have made
these astators what they are, and they are
only kept alive ou printers ink Stop
advertising them, and they will be power
less
in conclusion (that most acceptable
phrase iii Congressional speech to a re
porter let me recommend 10 you Il plat
form, the adoption of which can but pro
mote the prosperity of our native land
TAX, as its four supports the printers
pncc-hpr the citizens Ldhot-boJ, the vol
untcer's cartriagc-Loc, aud last (but by no
means least, y the ladies' Jand-Jor. And on
these place the pGiten of an honest, indie
pe'.dcnt country newspaper, which has the
county advertising and good list of adj
vance paying subscribers. Applause !
With that platform the country will bc
safe
The OnIGIN OF HAIL CoLUMBIA.
lin the Recollcctions of Washington
just published, occurs the following ancc-
dotc:
The song of Hail Columbia adopted in
measure TO the Presidents March was writ