Dayton Daily Empire

THE COLUMBUS CRISIS.

There is no paper published anywhere that we read so fully, and with more interest, than the Columbus Crisis. After the death of Governor Medary, about a year ago, it was for some time edited and published by Samuel A. Medary and W. N. Webb; but since the 12th of July last it has been under the exclusive control of the latter, one of the ablest political writers in the country. It is no disparagement of other papers to say that, in his hands, the Crisis is second to no Weekly in any State. The Day Book and Freeman's Journal, both published in New York, are admirable, each of them; but in nothing superior, and in some things not equal to the Crisis. Let every Democrat, everywhere, who can afford it, take them, and we shall have a sounder and healthier political condition of things. But the Crisis has stronger claims upon the Democracy of Ohio and the West. It is a book in which Democrats, especially farmers and mechanics, can during the long winter nights and bad winter days, find sound democratic doctrine and facts strongly and well put--put with the plainness, the earnestness and the pugnacity with which, every day, political truths ought to be stated. Brother Webb is polite; but he understands that what is now most wanted in the Democratic press, is vim, and that our true policy is always to be the attacking party. We trust that the Democracy of Ohio and of other Western, and the South Western States, will extend a most liberal support to the Crisis.