Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-04-23
Speech of Senator Trumbull at the New
York Meeting.

AOA mCcI4US.
At the Cooper Institute meeting, on the
18th inst, at 5 O'clock, Colonel Conkling in
troduced Senator Trumbu, who said
| There are several causes for the dissatisfac.
| tlon of the people which can only briefly al
| lude to. But one cause of complaint which
produces the alienation of the late insurrec-
tionary States and keeps alive the hates and
animosties engendered by the war is the con-
| tlnuance of political disabilities after the occa-
sion tor them has passed away. La consequence
OF this continuance the.governments in the late
| lnsurrectionary States have fallen into the
hands OF inexperienced and in many instances
corrupt adventurers, who have plundered the
people of these State, scarcely less than Won in
the city of New York have been plundered by
your former City governments Applause.
why are these disabilities continued p
Why are they not removed and all the people
entranchised? ] think there are two causes,
and two alone, which prevent it-one merce-
nary, the other political. Applause. The
mercenary one the Adventures showed by ex-
cludlng from Office in all these States the former
leading men of large experience and capacity,
and although they were traitors during the
war, they were not thieves OF plunderers -
ineir exclusion has thrown these governments
into the hands of men who have used their
power to punder the people over whom they
rule, and the debts of Southern States have
been swollen in some instances to twenty-fold
what they were before the war began.
"One great measure, then, which is demand
ed In the name of honesty, in the name of
peace, and the best interests of all, is the pas
sage of general bill removing political disa-
bilities.
Another cause of complaint among the peo-
pie is the one In which the patronage of the
Government Is used-used as so much money
| to carry electlons-not in the interest of party
even-but In the interest of a faction of party.
Ihe elVil- service system is the parent of many,
very many. evils. | cannot stop night to
point out the officers in many localities who are
taxed q portion of their salaries TOR party pur-
pose, and If they do not perform the political
duty required they are soon removed and
others substituted who will be active in poll
tics
| OF the tendency of the Capitalization of
| the Government the Senator said "If this
system OF encroachment be permitted to go on,
the day is not far distant when our Republican
system, based on the idea of a division of pow
ers between the Federal Government and the
States will be transformed into one imperial
despotism with all the power at Washington,
and care not whether that power is exercised
by single person as monarch, or by five hun
|
despotism. Applause
The MODEL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER
There are few men who have not made the tria]
who do not think they could make model
newspaper, but the proportion of those who
have tried to work up to their ideal model and
have succeeded to their own satisfaction, is still
less. The model of yesterday, when the work
was began, falls far short of the requirements
/ ~ Tor xrho yeE o1 ~ l. L.
its own peculiar work, and work, too, that must
be done under the influence of whip and spur,
and so well done that it will have none of the
imperfections that in other employments are
incident to haste. A successful newspaper con-
ductor must make good use ofeyes, ears, hand:
and brain; he must never be stupid, never be-
come sleepy or weary, and never be so engross
ed in one thing, however important, as to lost
his consciousness OF any one thing else. With
out omnipotence and omniscience no perfect
newspaper can be made; but the public is salts
fed with nothing that falls far short of it, and
thus 1t is that we have ambitious Journalist.
bending all their energies to accomplish wha
is absolutely impossible, with results which ar,
even less satisfactory to themselves than Il
those whose edifcation and pleasure they seek
The character OF the newspaper press is CON
stanty changing, and in many respects improv
ing, but the perfection which was thought te
have been almost reached quarter of centur,
ago seems to be as far off as ever, notwithstand
ing the great difference the journals of that er,
and those of to-day.
Personalities of the press, like suicides seen
to constitute an epidemic disease. Several nota
BILE Illustrations of this fact are now before tn
public-some upon a small and insignifcan
scale, and others threatening painful results
We do not see that there is, under any circum
stances, good excuse for coarse and undignife,
language; and besides, persons who subscrib
! and pay for newspapers are not much intereste
in the quarres of rival editors. s.-Lynch. Re
: publican.
A wife having lost her husband, was incon
solable for his death. Leave me to my grief.
, she cried, sobbing, ''you know the extrem