The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-20

circumstances and the progress OF time have
served to weaken some of these, and to de-
stroy others, we should not give true
expression to the sentiments OF our heart
should we declare that we are gladdened
by the opportunity furnished us to leave
Cairo. We are ipdulging in no demonstra-
tons OF joy on that account. On the con-
trary, in leaving the city, we are yielding
to what our multiplying years, the charac'
ter of our profession, and worldly circum-
stances admenish us IS a necessity. Our
"halcyon days" are over, although in all
human probability, we yet have many years
of vigorous life ahead OF u.s. but OF those
years we cannot devote ten nor yet hve, 10
the awaiting of the application Of that
long -looked.for impetus that is to usher
Cairo into the fraternity of large and pros
porous cities. Like all other Cairo news
paper men, we have garnered but a small
pecunlary harvest from our field OF labor,
and now while little oil yet remains in
our editorial lamp, we feel constrained to
let it burn where its light will give better
promise of profit. And, like our cotempo-
raries again, we have won some "honor'
Save in our own country in the pursuit of
our calling; but to the pursuit OF more
substantial returns we now feel ourselves
driven, and that pursuit leads US beyond
the borders of Southern Illinois, within
which the editorial labors of our life, have
been expended.
In resigning the editorial control OF THE
BULLErIN-a newspaper that has ever been
regarded as the leading Democratic organ
of Southern Illinois, we cannot repress a
thought or two that persist in seeking ex-
preston. They are these: First, that in
no particular are we the debtor of the
Democratic party TO the extent of a single
farthing We never asked favor of the
party that was granted, and the only public
favor ever won by US, was secured IN spite
of the opposition of that party. In our
persistent and consistent advocacy OF Dem
ocratic principles, therefore, no man can
say that we were inspired to the work by
selfish motives And we desire to saw, Sec
ondly, that, in the pursuit of that work we
have assisted in the conversion OF some
wonderfully poor white trash" into the
semblance of great men" and "distln-
guished statesmen"-men who, placing esti-
mates on their own worth which the public
usually failed to recognize, became stiff
necked and self-infated, refusing al all
times to thank us for the coats Of white
| wash with which we covered their mental
and moral deformities, and finally becom-
ing hostile in their bearing towards us per
sonally as well as towards the paper with
| which we maintained connection. Our
| experience IN this behalf is but the counter
part Of that of other partisan newspaper men
! in Egypt, and we only ailude to the matter
now that we may invoke the coed Lord to
deliver US from all such creatures in the fu-
ture.
We leave Cairo in the conviction we have
always entertained, that the place "has a
future The c. & v. the c. & St. L.; the
NJ. c.; and the l. NJ. d S. railroads that
were looked forward to as the great agen-
cles that were to work out glorious desti-
nv fer Caro-, are now fixed facts" The
etties that were to render the Father of
Waters the grand highway for the inter
changing commerce Of the south and north
west, are finished; and the strong hand of
the general government has turned the
menacing foods away from our levees, re-
moving all present apprehensions Of dan
ger, and afording to US the most absolute
guarantees of safety in the future. These
great influences are already felt, and if
properly utilized, will tell, as the years 90
by, with constantly augmenting effect upon
the growth of the city, the extent of its
business and the thrift of its industries.
The present generation will not pass away
until it has seen here city, that, having
risen superior to its drawbacks and mis-
management, will assert itself as among
the greatest of the commercial marts and
business emporiums of the Mississippi
valley. But, as We have already intimat.
ed, we are not in condition to await the
advent Of that better era in the citys his
tory, and, therefore, with i'll will toward