New-York tribune., 1867-08-15
Az FDTTOPJ1L MARTYR

IN EDITORIAL MARI1R
We are proud to learn that our profession
has at last produced cOnfessOr who is ready
to die for his principles. We are equally sorry
that he lives so far away from us that we can
not grasp his honest hand before he thrusts it
$50 to speak, into the consuming flames.
Nashville is his abiding place-the happy town
in which he prints and prOfesses He announces
that hereafter, "come veal or wO," he "wil
mot buy his boots of a Radical shoemaker"
and we see him wandering with naked and
blistered sOles Moreover, he will not " ride in
"a Radical hack (whatever species of vehicle
that may be-, and, therefore, all bOotless and
shoeless he must do his meandering on foot
Thirdly, he will "not buy cents worth of
goods of a Radical merchant" He will,
therefore, 90 Naked and with that vacuum in
his abdomen which nature very properly alb
hors. He will not employ a Radical teacher"
and so his children must suffer with their inn
practicable sire. He will not "jOn Radical
"church," and so he is quite ready to
go, the reader knows where rather than be
prayed into Paradise by a parson whose politl-
cal orthodoxy is not the dOxy of this devoted
editor. We say this because we believe that
the day is not distant when, even in Tennessee,
all who have anything to SELL anything to
teach or anything worth preaching will be i'm
practically Radical !" and sO by his own resO-
luton, this uncOmprOmising editor may be cut
ting himself off from solid necessaries, from
fluid consultations, from all cloth and from all
leather. Whether, under such circumstances,
he would not be justified in so far modifying
his VOW as to buy a bit of hemp of Radical
rOpemaker and run the risk OF being waited
upon at the last by a Radical cOffin-maker we
leave the casuists to determine. We hope,
however, that the good man will not be per-
mitted to go so far. If discovered in an alarm
ing state of inanitOn, we would suggest to the
benevolent people of Nashville the duty of
giving him a good dose of Radical beef-tea,
injected by aid of Radical stomach pump,
worked by the hands even of a radical doctor.
Lest he leave a mourning world too soon, by
the process of the string, let all citizens 90
with sharp knives in their pockets, always pre-
pared to cut him down. Let druggists deny
him arsenic and barkeepers Bourbon! Let
life so beautiful and so valuable be lackeyed
by thousand liyeried angels
In making these suggestions we think that
we give the best possible proof of the reverence
with which we regard every individual human
existence To be sure, our private opinion Is
that the world in general and Tennessee in
particular could manage to struggle on in spite
of the demise of our Nashville friend. The
planets would continue in their courses, and
his departure would have no perceptible effect
upon the winds and the tides, the weather and
the crops. Railway trains would continue to
run, and Congress would meet upon the APP
pointed day. The City of Nashville would re-
tain its municipal existence, with the advantage
of harboIing one misohicf-maker the less Still,
| when We think of this poor editor dead with
nobody to bury him, with nobody to pray over
him. and with nobody to shed for him single
tear. we are willing to have him live under
suitable restraints. 1t would be better, per-
haps to take away his type, and to cut off his
ink, pens, and paper; but even upon this point
we should not he incxOrabe. He might con-
tinue TO print, if, with his peculiar views of
trade, he could find anybody to purchase
Whether shopkccpers, while under his tremen-
dous ban, would care TO advertise in his
columns, we cannot undertake to determine.
One word of Southern newspapers i'll gen
eral We are, as we have always been, In
favor of the liberty of unlicensed printing and
we have always looked with distrust upon any
official interference with newspapers. Never
theless, we cannot but regret the publication
at various points of the South of several jour
nails, the influence of which upon public opin-
ion must be anything but salutary. These
sheets are in bad hands; their writing is kind
of virulent slip-slop; their aim seems to he to
fan the smoldering passions of the insurrec-
ton; they exhibit great deal of vehemence
with very little wisdom; and of telling the
truth they seem to be completely incapable.
While they continue to be printed, the pre-
sumption is that they must be palatable to a
certain class-small, perhaps, but still large
enough to make trouble. For various reasons,
we do not entertain the idea of their suppress
sion. which would be a violation of our most
! cherished principles; but we are delighted to
believe that as the daylight gets broader and
broader in these benighted regions, these
screech-owls of typography will be so estimated
by the community at their true value, that they
will wing their way to less civilized parts, or,
mt least, be morally silenced at home Here
they would now be innocuous; there In tlme'
they will probably become so.
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