Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-09-20

TuIRTY-SEvEN SORE HEADS - There are
just thirty-seven persons in this city, as we
have the very best of reasons for knowing, who
disapprove of the Administrations putting
stop to the circulation Of rebel newspapers thro'
the mails They are not so much opposed to
the act from principle, perhaps, as they are out
of regard 70 their pockets though the moral
effect Of their hostility to 'the powers that be"
for the suppression of incendiary documents, is
the same in one case as in the other.
It seems that some little time ago these thir-
ty-seTeu individuals conceived an idea that
their mental culture would suffer without the
weekly yiaitations CT the Nae York Doy Book,
and accordingly sent to that establishment thir-
ty-seven dollars with request to forward to
their address, for one year, thirty seven copies
Of the delectable sheet whose name we have
above given. One number of the same, how
ever, is all that Uncle Sam has ever onde-
Scended to bring to the thirty-seven individu-
ais aforesaid. that venerable parsonage having
concluded in the meantime that the Day Book
was not proper publication for dissemination
through the channels provided by him for the
for this that the Administration has just thirty
seven non-sympatnizers here with the move
ment it inaugurated looking to the putting down
of rebellion and treason. by placing under ban
MI newspapers at the North in hostility to the
Government-an act, we may add, that elicit
ed the hearty applause and thanks of all good
and loyal citizens throughout the country.
We are really sorry for the thirty-seven IN
lucky gentlemen who have lost their money,
and patience with the Government, at the same
time. They are entitled to our hearty commits
seration in their present uncomfortable frame
of mind, and we beg to tender them our sincere
coincidence and ''most distinguished considera-
tom just look at a statement of their griev-
ances They have got one number of the Nslg
York Weekly Day Book for which they have
paid one dollar, and what makes the matter
still worse it is probably the last one they will
ever get the paper having since ''fzzled OUT
like the treason Of many Of its supporters, and
come to an untimely end. Who shall say that
their case is not really hard one But after
all, this is but one of the fortunes of war They
must derive consolation from this fact if they
can, ana congratulate themselves that their
preht and loss account presents a balance a.
gainst them Of only ninety eight cents. on an
investment Of one dollar, in the mist treason
able ana Infamous newspaper that was ever
published in The country. On the whole we be.
lieve we viii withdraw our preferred sympathy
and tell them that they realized just two cents
or one copy Of the paper, more than they de-
served, for viler and more pernicious sheet
than the Nelv York Day Book was never print
ca. 1t Is well that it is numbered among the
'qinss that were, and good for the thirty-seven
uncertainties that they have lost their
money IN bestowing it upon such disreputa-
Die paper as the one whose merits we have been
considering Let their experience in this mat
Ter teach them better than to be caught in any
sueh trap again