Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-30
A Chat with the Editor.
NuNBER Two,

Mr.. REED-Just drop your scissors while
we discuss tue topics left unsettled al our sit
ting the other day. A call for "copy" broke
abruptly the thread of our reasoning over the
proposition of Mr.. rrumbull to make the reso-
luton Of Investigation before the L. s. Senate
more searching and more general and compre.
hensive. 1t was Martin Van Buren who con-
soled himself in his political defeat in the pres
idential race by declaring that the sober second
thought of the people" would put things to
his liking again. And though Mr.. Trumbul's
ameHssDaent was defeated, the second sober
thought of senators rrconcile@ them 10 incOt-
porate in the pending resolution, the gist of
\ Tumbulls proposition for Thorough over
hauling in the governmental departments,
whihc put our republican Legislators a: Wash
ington IN favorable mood for the holidays
Don't you think the world moves?
But what oS rrpublicanism abroadg Did
,you not observe the lively discussion at the
moving of the waters in England when it was
beralded over the wires that Victoria was de-
clning in health and her uBprDmising scion
likely to become the rufiDg monarch and
how Sir ThoS Dixie charged upon monarchy
its excessive evils and burdens, and oonse-
quently, the alarm expressed in high official
circles =? The rapid recovery of the Queen
and the depressing illness Of PriHee Albert
may have no connection with the agitation
that Sir Dixie was promoting, but somehow
the cincidence is worthy of note.
| But what led me to draw my seat closer TO
your editorial stool at the risk of violating the
rules of the "sanctum," was to congratulate
| you and the readers Of the Telegraph over
the passage in congress of Mr.. 1Ioar's bill
touching the question OF capital and labor-a
| theme fraught with SO much Importance
to the "bone and sinew" of the country. Not
| so much that the commission will unfold fully
| all tnc wrpngs which affict society, or discoY-
er an immediate Jemedy toB all our social evils,
but that the interests of the lsboring classes,
and labor itself is enisting public attention
and becoming matters for the grave and seri-
Gus consideration of the statesmen and schol-
ars of the land. 1t cannot fail to do good, and
the country will hail with glatlncss the law for
for the appointment of ihe commission.
| And then, again, has nDA Senator Summer
set the pot boiling, by the introduction of his
long promised measure tor curtailing presi-
dental aspirations beyond single term Ba-
ting the pers onaIity supposed To lurk under the
| proposition, has he not arrayed tbe facts and
testimony in form Hyesistable2 In the good
old days, Mr.. Editor, il was sound republican
preaching, and why not press the issue now ?
see by the Struggling of your shoulders, and
a glance ut the scissors and paste, that you are
disposed 10 fall back upon editorial dignity
and Teat 1t rs a "reseryc question" in the house
of your friends. II has its strong points, ad-
| nit, but nevertheless should be met in u spirit
| of conciliation and with harmony. Ii is high
| time that the President should be spared the
necessity OF deyoting his energies, and of max
ing his appointments 80 as to secure his re- c.
lection Every oflicc-holder sees the matter
in different light, no doubt, and even Fred
Douglass--a worthy scion Of the Fifteenth A.
| mcndmcnt-bccomes the champion so much
for San Domingo!
! Recurring 10 the topics we have been CON
sidering, do they not indicate that tho holidays
have presented more than the usual record of
deeds thus far in the opening of the session of
| congress? Like the peculiar privileges at the
hub CT our Countrywide one mainly political
yet none the less deserving in our weekly
| chat How is that for "whetzy2