The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-05-29
NeWsnaners.

| prospectus OF the St0te Ud1ete6 U'tU
Republican. This is not only one O
the oldest but best daily aud weekly
paper published in the State. AS
State paper the Gazette has no super
Tor, and may be set down es live
paper, always up with the times, and
THE energy and ability displayed by
the editor and publisher, entities him
to the support Of the public. Terms
for the daily, $500 year: weekly,
81. so. -Lombeytrilte Press.
Col. Freese, of the Gazette and Re
publican copies the above notice, and
makes the following comments, which
are as "true as preaching" The
Gazette and Republican says
"The above is what may be termed
capital notice y and coming as It
does from paper neutral in politics,
it cannot be attributed to party pre-
deliction. There is one special item
in the notice with which we are par
ticularly well pleased, because of its
indicating an appreciation ofthat for
which we have had most to suffer
namely, a liue paper" We are apt
to prize that most which costs US most,
whether it be in time, or pain, or mon
ey and all who have ever tried the
experiment of publishing a live
paper" will bear us witness that it is
an expensive operation - expensive,
not so much in dollars and 'ents, as in
pain and vexation of spirit"
A olive paper" must notice passing
events, and comment upon them favor
ably or unfavorably as they deserve
If you comment favorably when you
GU 9ht to condemn, You will soon de-
serve, if you do not get, the contempt
of all high minded, honorable men,
IF you comment uhfavorably, howev-
er just it may be, you will soon get
the ill-will and determined persecution
of those whom you condemn. A Give
paper" therefore, must of necessity
make enemies, goaded on by their own
consciousness of guilt, will leave no
stone untnrned to vex and injure the
publisher.
A " live paper" must of necessity
be an Independent paper and in this
age of toadyism and sycopbancy, no
man car publish an independent paper
without having to pay dearly for it. -
So long as an editor will do just what
every body wants him to do-no mat
ter whether right or wrong-and in
case Of difference between his advisers,
set them to fighting each other, in
stead of taking the responsibility of
acting as umpire himself; so long as
he will carefully conceal the vices,
and praise the virtues. of men ; so long
as he viii publish and praise every
speech and act of self-constitnted
leaders, and be exceedingly careful
not to dissent to anything that may
be said or done by either of them so
long as he will allow men to draw from
the public treasury whatever sums th9y
demand, without whispering word of
condemnation, and say amen" to
whatever may be done by men in their
official capacity, no matter if the lie
even Sticks in his throat in short, so
long as he will ALLOW his paper to be
used as mere pack horse, Oh which
designing uemagogues and nnprinci-
pied knaves may ride into power,
plnnder the treasury, and aggrandise
themselves at the expense of the peo-
pie, he is "a capital good fellow" and
his paper "the best in the world .
But let him have an eye TO the wrong,
and an ear to the oppressed--let him
extol virtue and condemn vice-let
him dare to act as umpire over the af-
fairs of his own Office, and stand by
the interests of his readers and the
public as against those who would rob,
and plumber, and demorilize them-in
a word, let him dare to be a free man
and publish a live" independent pa
per, and at once the hell-hounds of
persecution are let loose upon him,
each vieing with the other in the effort
to worry him in spirit and iniure him
in business.
We speak but the experience Of ev-
cry man who at any time has attemp-
ted to publish a Give" paper. The
bones of many such now lie moulder-
ring in tho grave, FASTENED thither by
the blood hounds who followed at their
heels. Still, others are to follow, for,
while g-ass grows and water runs, men
will be found who, Notwithstanding all
the difficulties, will dare to publish
/" live" papers, and accept the full res
possibility of so doing.''