But believing that the reparation
of the injury in this manner was likely to be considered as a
favour, entitling those who granted it to a certain degree of
influence over the politics of the journal, Walter refused to
sign it, or to have any concern in presenting the memorial. He
did more; he wrote to those from whom the restoration of the
employment was expected to come, disavowing all connection with
the proceeding. The matter then dropped, and the Customs
printing was never restored to the office.
This course was so unprecedented, and, as his father thought, was
so very wrong-headed, that young Walter had for some time
considerable difficulty in holding his ground and maintaining the
independent position he had assumed. But with great tenacity of
purpose he held on his course undismayed. He was a man who
looked far ahead,--not so much taking into account the results at
the end of each day or of each year, but how the plan he had laid
down for conducting the paper would work out in the long run.
And events proved that the high-minded course he had pursued with
so much firmness of purpose was the wisest course after all.
Another feature in the management which showed clear-sightedness
and business acuteness, was the pains which the Editor took to
ensure greater celerity of information and dispatch in printing.
The expense which he incurred in carrying out these objects
excited the serious displeasure of his father, who regarded them
as acts of juvenile folly and extravagance.
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