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FOR want of an audience, Pollard of
oration on the writers for the press good men; but they can at least compel them to
LLChivalry of the South ,, was not delivered in Lynchburg last week. e decent hypocrites.
lUnavoidably a good many occurrences, in the true sense of the word
IT sounds incredible, but they say that our Board of Councilmen
insigticant,
have been related to the damage of the Southern people,
At all
a ctually think they can make outsiders believe them honest.
as proofs that they hated the negro and the Union. They ought in
e vents, either out of fatuity or a8 a cynical jest quite worthy of Jonfairness to have the benefit of a wide dissemination of this item of Polathan Wild, the Board has recently gone through the form of proving
personal history-that
a half-educated, noisy, Yankee-cursing,
tc3 an observant world that the lower branch of the New York City
chivalrous Southern orator, writer, and martyr was, notwithstanding
founci1 is honest. The late Legislature, which has not made any
all these titles to the applause of the average Southefn audience, com- C
ttempt
to prove itself honest, passed a law making three years, instead
a
pelled to put his eloquent oration back into his carpet-bag undelivered
term of service. The Board of Councilmen have
0 f two, a
because in a town of twelve or thirteen thousand inhabitants he could
lassed a resolution censuring the corrupt Legislature for thus meddling
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not find twenty men who would listen to him. To be sure, it is posIt is said that the same councilmen paid to
rith their constituents.
sible that Pollard of Richmond had had personal diiculties with a P
t he Legislature, which they denounce for extending the term of service,
majority of the citizens of Lynchburg; but we like to believe in so
U1,OOOfor said extension.
hopeful a sign as that the Southern people are getting disgusted with 9D
him and his kind.
THE Cable newsmonger, according to the New York
is an
!l%e Times of this city exposes an attempt on Friday of last week 1American gentleman of great virtue and ability, and the same journal
to revive the Fenian mania by collusive telegrams of armings and pre- i nsists upon it that his despatches during the
crisis in Europe
parations in all parts of the country, which were showered that night Vvere borne out by events. As this is a matter -of fact, there is no use in
upon the chief newspaper offices, and in some instances were accepted eliecussing it. We refer all enquirers to The
own columns durand printed for genuine. Such an imposition upon the public intelli- i ng the past three months, and they will there find, we repeat, that
gence can have no other motive and no other possible effect than to I tearly every opinion and prediction of the agent of the Associated Press
plunder still more villanously the Fenian oZ;en&Ze,consisting, it is well - -not of the special despatch manufacturer only-was falsified by the
known, of an ignorant, humble, and poorly-paid clas8, mostly servants i I lews of the following-week.
What was true in his news was almost
and largely servant girls, whom it is the concern of every good citizen i nvariably trivial to the verge of silliness. He has, within the last week,
to enlighten and protect from this organized piracy. We are free to t ;aken to pred&ing the price of stocks on the London Stock Exchange,
say that we hold it culpable to so much as attach the importance oli Etnd, incredible as it may sound, the leadiug newspapers here actually
news to the saying8 and doing8 of the ostensible patriots, aud that ; I publish his prophecies. He wait8 till ten
in the morning-that
to employ reporters to retail the proceedings,
and inten . i .s, a few minutes before the market opens-and then telegraphs across
tions of the Fenian headquarters is to assist in deluding and spoiling : t;he ocean that (the market has not
<but that the best judges
the victims, and to prolong the vitality of a most deplorable anomaly r t;hink, orjit is generally thought, that United States stocks oiEries
in our body politic. The first duty of the press is to ignore the Fenian 3 7will be so and so. Of course no shrewd business man is gulled by
as much as possible, and the next to denounce them as they deserve: fruch stuff as this, but the unwary may be, and the publication of it by
Tht 3 1;he morning papers may be set down amongst the curiosities of jourwhen it is necessary to. notice their lawlessness and rascality.
Tinzes, as we have before remarked, is one of the few papers that ok.- 1nalism. In The Times and Herald of last Sunday he prophesied at ten
serve this rule.
f9clock that, when the market opened, United States five-twenties would
w
i improve and Eries I decline, a but in his despatch sent two hours
JUST before the Connecticut election we strongly reprobated the3 1
Later, printed in the same column, he unblushingly reports that Erie8
conduct of the Republican Convention of the Fourth District in nomi - ;
had $advanced one-half, and that United States five-twenty bonds had
nating P. T. Barnum, and we recommended good citizen8 to
declined a quarter !
that
name at all hazards. To this the New York Zkib2m e
of, March 28 replied :
TEE dominion of Canada-is formally in existence, to the great satBut to this absurdity (the advice of THE NATION not to regarc1
the CLregular nominations ) eomething more serious is joined-thl e isfaction of the politicians who infest the provinces, if of nobody else.
studied insult to the Republicans of the Fourth Congressional District ;! Some of these gentlemen, we see, are already talking of a standing .
who chose Mr. Barnum as their Zen&r. The convention which nomi army to be counted by the hundred thousand. The people generally,
nated him undoubtedly represented the people of the district, and 5,0 we take it, are waiting to see what benefits are to be derived from the
accuseit of want of decency is also to accuse the
new arrangement ; and while the more intensely loyal among them see
Mr. Barnum, however, ran behind his ticket, and.was not elected. 011
in the confederation of the provinces a strengthening of the bond
Tuesday last this same journal, in an article on Nominating Conventions 7
which ties them to the mother country, and which at any rate keeps
apropos of the prize offered by the Philadelphia Loyal League for al1
them from
the United States, the wisest heads among
essay on the best mode of selecting candidates, says :
them
probably
doubt
whether
the provinces as a republic, bearing
Each of us is now virtually compelled to vote for candidates 5
whose integrity and capacity we feel no confidence. There may be I the responsibilities of an independent country, will not come this way
very good name at the head of our ballot, with two or three mor faster than if they had remained in the colonial state. This drifting
scattered through it; but of three-fourths of those named thereon w is not, however, a process which there is any need of hastening ; we in
either know nothing or no good. How shall we mend this ?
this country are not the losers if there is any loss in the delay. Meanu Our advice, briefly, would be :
1. Let U8 elect by popular vote fewer officers than now, leavim 3 time, we have on our northern border the same number of neighbors as
before, something like three and a half millions, and we believe no
more to be appointed.
Cc2. Let us discard, for the most part, the swindling ma&nery 4f change in our relations with them is made necessary by the change in
Repala?* -&%minatio?k$ and call by public requisition upon fit person S their domestic affairs.
to stand as candidates for elective offices.
Now, we know that, as a general rule, performances of this kind only ex:THE Mexican imbroglio is over,
so far as Maximilian is concite the laughter of the public ; but we believe that few thoughtfr II cerned. Queretaro ha8 been captured, and with it the.Emp,eror
men witness them without asking themselves what design of Provi - :ind his chief supporters. Juarez has, it is said, refused to promise
dence can be answered by permitting the existence of newspapers I that Maximilian will be held harmless, and it is not only not imposand more particularly why Providence permits the existence of news - Isible, but by no means improbable, that he may be shot. Everybody
papers that serve great causes by an open contempt for trutl 11 out of Mexico would probably, in the interest of humanity and civiliand honesty. If the press is ever to be raised out of its present lop T !zation, regret this result, but it must be admitted, on the other hand,
estate, it must be by readers insisting at all events on outward respeclt that there would be much excuse for it. The onlyzdifference between
for their OWII intelligence and moral sense. They cannot make al 1 Maximilian and any ordinary filibuster was that he came to Mexico