The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-03

The following editorial from the Chcdgo PoSt'
is doubtless from the pen Of Col. F. A. EAST
MAN, who was for some time editor OF the Pat
riot. 1t is interesting as sketch OF the news
paper whose demise called it forth
\ MELANCHOLY FAILURE.
The proportion Of men who succeed IN jour
ualsm to those who fail is so great that lndlVld-
ual instances OF failure should not, perhaps, oc-
casion much surprise Bus when q man CT some
talents and fair education engages in newspaper
editing and Publishing, with every chance OF
achieving re putao~ and position, but throws
all his chances away-in that case there is
something truly melancholy. 1t is tue that it
requires peculiar kind Of talent to make
readable paper ard conduct it judlciously. And
while the want Of this peculiar kind OF talent
NAV in some instances account tor and partly
excuse a failure IN journalism, it should not be
allowed to account for and excuse the wasting,
in few short months, of the property and
fame Of an old established newspaper. 1t costs
too long time to establish and build up
newspaper, to make it any thing but wicked
for it to be destroyed, as it were, in day
\ reliable newspaper, one that for long Sc
ries of years has faithfully chronicled passing
events, has become legibe volume open to the
storian--indecd. is history itself, and cannot
be lost or discontinued, without great loss to the
general intel ence of the country, any more
than the date Of one of the Revolutionary bat
ties or the signatures to the Declaration of In
Dependence
The state OF Vermont is small and far off from
most of the readers of this paper but Vermont
has always had or for thirty five years has had
one newspaper that has been familiar to all Yer
monters, and been known all over the country.
We allude to the Vermont Patriot, printed, or
lately printed, at Montpelier. It was started
by Mr.. George W. Hill, brother to the famous
Isaac Hill (printer, editor, politician and states
man ). of New Hampshire After a short time
this first proprietor retired upon good Vermont
ESQ.,, now Of Madison, Wis. Mr.. Marston pub
lished the Patriot eight or nine years, and clear
ed in that time sixteen thousand dollars. East
man & Danfolth were the next proprietors
Charles 6. Eastman the poet and politician,
and Col. i. 3. Danforth, jr., editor and propr-
etor Of the Argus, sterling newspaper at Rock
Island, this State. Col. Danforth did not stay
long in the firm, he leaving and coming west in
pursuit of fortune amongst more adventurous
people. Maj. Eastman continued alone to pub
lish the Patriot, and it is not too much to say
of it Gt being a Democratic paper that no pa
per in an anti-democratic state exerted greater
influence Last year he died his estate settled
at very handsome figure, and the Patriot was
sold low to Mr.. E. NJ. Brown. 1t was an un-
fortunate sale. While Mr.. Brown has had some
experience i'll publishing smaller paper in a
smaller town, he has proved to be lacking in
ability to succeed at the capital Of Vermont.
He commenced by changing the style and make
up of the paper, until the old eyes behind spec
tacles could no longer recognize the "OM
Patriot" By bad editorial management, and
general ineffciency, the paper soon fell off in at
fractions; in fact, since Mr.. Brown took the
Patriot nobody out of Vermont has known but
that it died with the man whose genius earned
for it the principal part gifts wide reputation =
We now learn that Mr.. Brown has been obliged
to give it up, and it is again for sale.
1t is not too late to save the Patriot. The
paper is needed, and no doubt its friends will
find ready means to resuscitate it. \ live cdi-
tor and true man could take the Patriot, and
make it again, in a few months, an important
figure in the politics and literature Of Vermont