Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-25

The. Troubles of a Democratic Editor.
The readers of the Chronicle may per.
haps think they have seen enough concern
ing the quarrel between Gov. Tod and the
Trumbull Democrat. but the following ar
ticle from the Pittsburg Dispatch is such
a specimen Of genuine hGnOr that we think
that after they have read 1t, they will ac-
knowledge themselves well repaid for its
perusal. We suppose it to be from the
pen of FlOrus B. Plympton, formerly editor
of this paper, now connected with the De.
patch. He says:
In the hopelcssly frec-soil county of
TrumbuH, Ohio, there has been, for imme-
mortal years, a Democratic paper. 1t has
had leancr picking than sheep during
drouth ia a mullen pasture. Successive
editorial Peters have carried on the unsuc-
~cessful crusade, grown thinner than a pro
fe-Sonal linguiyt fed IN Hebrew roots, aad
gradually wasting, TIL like Peter Sehamyl
they cast no shadow in the sun, they have
shriveled Ike an unriPe persimmon, and
been blown AWAY with the thistle down Of
autumn. No one of them was ever known
to die and be buried, ike people of body and
substance. The only one of this succession
Of martyrs. that We can recall, who Waxed
fat and kicked, in spite of so jejune a soil,
was Joel Buttles; and It is doubtful whcth-
-er his wonderful self resources would not
have failed, had not the great State of Ohio
possessed a ~penitentiary. It Is demonstra-
bic, we think, that the Office of warden
saved J. e. rs it is, We. expect he will
grow old, and in the order of nature be
gathered TO his fptkers and have a Chris
tan burid. We dsToutly hope go. And
fAis 1Vre of Democracy does net tempt
him to again undertake the publication of
the Trumbull Democrat, We entertain a
reasonable expectation that he will arrive
at 50 honorable a termination Of lis DAYS.
Ehc present editorial inctHbens and cam
didate for m~artyrdOm by political consumP-
ton is William Ritezel, Esq. We cannot
imagine what could have possessed Viii
liam, vino is a young man of fair talent and
good sense, to undertake so hopeless a task
as the conversion of ineorrigible Trumbull
to Democratic principles. st. Simon
stood on one leg through weary
years for the reward of saintship. He was
canonized. Brahminical priests hold up
their arms till they wither and stifen in
muscle and joint, and the people worship
them for their sacrifice. But Why aprom-
ising man, as William was, and having
some ambition to possess and enjoy the
good things of this life, Should have select
ed Trumbul county as 4 field in which
to gather anything more than the thorns
and thistles of political strife, is more than
one can imagine. Il was the custom afore-
time, whch a new editor was installed over
tie Democrat, to call in an undertaken and
him for a ocfin. 1t was a handy
thing to have in the house. and was certain
to be needed. We fear that William has
arrived at that evcntful period.
The event was precipitated by the action
Of the Baltimore Convention, which gave
birth to two Presidential nominees. The
partGrition, according to the highest au-
was irregular" and Democrats
were left free to choose between them
William had no preferences; his affections
were equally divided; he was like the bun
die Of hay between the two animals, each
a different way. He put ono leg
in Kentucky and one in Illinois, one hand
on popular sovereignty and the other On
the slave code. and became sublimely i'm
But the Democracy of Trumbull
tolerate political Erasmus. Then
he drew in his legs and hands, swore neith-
er by Cog nor Magog, and turned to Tim
On Solitude and Daxter's Saints
Rest for consolation.
He should have been left to his mclita-
tons, but the Douglas men were rot salts
fed. They urged upon him the necessity
Of the happy dispatch" and his reluc-
lance to perform that Oriental ceremony,
compelled them to call upon David Tod to
persuade hir Of its propriety.
Gov-T Tod was but too happy to accept
the ir-;tatigue Everybody knows Cos.
Fod. He resembles Napoleon 1. in fea-
he own Briar Hill and its coal
mines: lie is President Of the slowest rail-
road this side of sundoEn, and was Pre-
,ident of the fastest n ltional Democratic
assembled since the days of