The Shasta courier., 1870-08-06
SHASTA COURIER.
Editors and Printers In Con-
greSS

Heretofore, (says the New York Daily
Globe,) men ambitious to hold seats in
Congress have regarded the profession of
law as stepping stone to the higher thing
desired. The charge has often been
brought against the present Congress that
1t contains too m ny lawyers for the best
Interests of the people. We believe it
may be said that more prominent men in
both houses of Congress have at some
time or other been editors or printers, than
members of any other profession. The
craft was never in such luck, from the
Vice President down, since the days OF
BEN FRANKLIN, as it is today. In the
Senate we find the presiding officer, Col
FAX, as everybody knows, journeyman
printer and editor. Mr. ABBOTT, of
North Carolina, has edited the Manchester
New Hampshire) American and the Bos-
ton Atlas; ANTHONY, of Rhode Island,
for nany years edited the Providence
journal; BRowNLow, of Tennessee, edit
ed the Knoxville Wing for thirty years /;
CAssERLY, of California, edited daily in
San Francisco, and was the state printer
for ayear, CAMERON of Pennsylvania, was
a journtyman printer, and has edited
papers in Harrisburg and Doylestown /;
HOWELL, of Iowa, edits paper at Keokuk |;
HAMLIN, of Maine, was in early life COM
positor; Ross, of Kansas, was foreman of
the Milwaukee Sentinel and edited the
Kansas Tribune; SEIZURE, oil Missouri,
once edited paper in Germany, and in
Detroit and St. Louis; GoRHAM, the Sec
retary of the Senate, was also once an
editor.
In the House there is long list of edi:
tors and printers, few of whom we will
mention: Mr.. HAY, of Illinois, became a
printer in his sixteenth year; Mr.. PACK
ARD, of Indiana, edited the Laporte
Union; Mr.. PALMER, of Iowa, once edited
the jamestown Journal, of this state; MIR.
Speaker Blaine edited the Portland Ad
vertlser and Kennebec Journal; General
Banks once occupied the editorial chair; /;
Mr.. Dawes edited the Greenfield Gazette
and Adams Transcript for several years !;
Mr.. Robt. 7. Van Horn, of Missouri,
worked at the case in early life; Mr..
Asper, of Missouri, edited the Western
Reserve Chronicle and the Chardon De-
mocrat, in Ohio; Tom Fitch edited the
San Francisco Times and Placerville Re
publican; Mr. Ella, of New Hampshire,
commenced life as printer; Mr.. Reeves
of tbs state, edited the Republican Watch,
man at Greenport; Sunset Cox once
owned and edited the Columbus (Oh.o)
Statesman; James Brooks edits the Ex-
press; General Strader, of Ohio, worked
three years as a journeyman printer, and
Mr.. Lawrence, of the same state, reported
for the Columbus State Journal, subse-
quently editing the Logan Gazette and the
Western Law Magazine; General Mungen
edited and published the Find!ay Democ,
ratio Courier; Philadelphia Van Trump
learned the art and mystery of printing
and edited the Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette
and Enquirer; John A. Bingham started
lite as printer; Judge Kelley, of Phila-
delphia, gained his first livelihood by proof:
reading in printing Office; j. L. Getz,
Of Reading, Pennsylvania, edited the Read
ing, Pennsylvania, edited the Reading
Gazette and Democrat for twenty FIVE
years; H. L. Cake, of Pennsylvania, learn
ed the art of printing and edited and pub
lished the Pottsville Mining Record; R.
C. Mccormick, of Arizona Territory, was
letter writer to the New York press
from the Crimean war, and edited the
Young Mems Magazine, contributed to
various journals, and was the war cores
poudeut of the New York Evening Post
and Commercial Advertiser; Jim Cavan-
augh, of Montana, of Irish descent, started
life as printer and editor; Mr.. Sphinx,
of Dakotah Territory, edited the Prairie
Beacon, at Paris, Illinois, prior to his
appointment as secretary of that territory
by President Lincoln.
This list should be long enough to con-
vince the most skeptical that printing and
editing brings its political rewards as well
as the most learned professions. Some
day printer may occupy the White
House. Why not, as well as railsplitter,
tailor, or a tanner ?-Cleveland (Ohio)