New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-27
AN EDITOR WANTED.

Claiborne parish is under the weekly
infection of the Claiborne Adrocote. A
Mr.. Hayes has, unfortunately, concluded
that he has been called to the post Of add
wiser general to the community of Homer.
A Nh. Hill made the same application in
his own behalf, Of previous call. They
both made mistakes. The editorial pro-
fession never called either one Of them.
Mr.. Hill has retired. Mr.. Hayes ought to
do so at once. The press will be better
off without them. The people certainly
have nothing to expect from the writer
who has gone, or from the writer who has
come. Both have their systems over
charged with bile. Both mistake the use
of words. They differ from Talleyrand
in this, that while the Frenchman en-
ployed language to conceal his ideas, they
use it to conceal their want of ideas. Hill
was as impetuous as Murat, but he never
could bring his words into action properly.
Hayes inherits the fiery ardor of his pre-
decessor, but he recruits his rhetoric from
forbidden sources. The editorial profess
sion is weakened in public estimation by
such knights. Chivalry can not tolerate
Godfrey gawking up to Orlando, with his
lance askew, and his mouth open. Beauty
and bravery would retire from the field
abashed at the ridiculous sight Neither
does intellect allow her chevaliers to de-
file discussion with the language of the
cow-pen. Jeanette and her milking
train tolerate a dialect unknown to the
gods upon Olympus. And yet Hayes
talks to the public of Homer as though he
stood in a crowd of bull yearlings. He
uses the word calf as if he had been
brought up in butcher-shop. He talks
of idiots as if he was addressing
lunatic asylum. He employs the word
thief as if he had just escaped from the
Penitenitiary. Traitors to the Democ-
racy' is the mild expression he applies to
the gentlemen who prefer not to vote at
all to voting for ''knave" or 'fool"
A paragraph will suffice to explain the I'M
mense mistake about which we are writ
ing. 1t is from one of Hayes first efforts:
We do not think that we are too intolerant.
too much blinded by prejudice, when we
say that In our soul we believe that anv
Southern man, or any Northern man pro-
Tossing to have the material interest of the
South at heart, who attaches himself to the
Radical party is either knave or a fool.
Every one of whom at the South is an
idiot or thief
We submit that Homer is a bad place
for college if this is the kind of jargon
that is spoken in its high places She
makes some pretension to be Athenian,
and this is the kind of intellectual food
she proposes to dish up for her rising
statesmen. Parents can not be too eau
tious to put away such pabulum from
their growing youngsters, for one Or two
years of this manner of defamation and
argument may suffice to destroy life of
future usefulness. No young man can
take in this spirit of discussion without
totally uniting himself for refined and
polite literary society.
The Claiborne Advocate is not very dan
gerous to any locality but Homer, and it
h only dangerous to that village because
parties who were never made for editors
impose themselves upon the community
in that capacity. It might be made use
full sheet if it could be heard by the proper