The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-30

aware that it is any disgrace not to be |
smart. Brains are cheap in these lat
ter days, and it is something of dis |
tinction for . man to admit that he
don't know It all. For present pur-
poses it may be unfortunate that we are
not supplied with WHAT called sense"
to that wonderful degree with which
the fates have endowed the
"subject under consideration" We
have been plodding along here for some
time, doing the best we could for our
selves and the country We have
worked hard to make a passable paper.
five have claimed any thing for The
NEWS it is that it represented home in
terests as well as the usual run of
country papers, and that it has been
tolerabIy well printed. That is about
all we ever claimed for our paper; we
have succeeded remarkably well, per-
haps beyond our deserts. We have
been honored with the confidence and
support of the people. And now
that we think of it, several gentlemen
whose opinions are equally as valua-
bic, and whose judgement is equally
as unbiased as those of " the great and
good individual who edits that great
new spaper, the Emporia Ledger. have
told us, at various times that they re-
garded THE EhPoRIA News as tolera-
bly, ia ir paper in many respects.
1t is true that these opinions were
expressed before that wonderful prodi-
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dispel the clouds of ignorance that had
so long hung like dark pail oyer this
part of the moral vineyard. We only
sigh now that we were ever born to be
q printer and editorl How strange that
the sweet-smelling flower of the Ledger
should not have scented this commune
: ty for 10 these many years! Had its
wonderful sentences been given to the
world long ago, Seymour or Davis
might now be President, and several of
: the Ledger's editors and stock holders
might have fat Offices. AS it is, it was
fully calculated that the world should
be startled when No. one of that sheet
made its appearance. 1t had been
, whispered around that things were to
; be walked up in ''these diggins." If
peoples bones did not shake with as
r constituent at this star in the west, 1t
1 was because they did not do what was
/ expected of them. We are little sur
= prised that nobody has been killed
!. Each issue shows that the editor is as
9 well pleased with his effort as the young
= rooser is with his 'irst crow" The
D immortal Potts never created half as
D much of q CONSERVATION in London as
r the Ledger man has in his own feelings
!. at The wonderful productions of his
i own pen, assisted by the Chicago Times
: and the Cincinnati Enquirer. SwaggeI
o and smartness are one and the same
t thing with him, and what is wanting il
o the latter is fully supplied by the super
S abundance of the former. His platform
f is as broad for those who differ with
= him as was that of the one jurymaI
: with whom the other eleven could moi
: agree. Says the juryman, "There art
It eleven of the biggest fools on this jury
t ever saw"
= We hope this acknowledgment of eul
(. inferiority may serve to procure for vi
immunity from the terrific wit of the
9 individual who sings ink for thu
# Ledger, and Blackstone and the Kansas
1 | akofufaa for the haer ierkera