Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1835-10-17

N. pon1LAHD ADvx11ssER.
NKW0RAPERS.
,Gaoeashing fact that in country
!. i. and where every voter Is
p coee OF twice . year to dis
utv q Tie belloe box, there are
bess Who nevesrsad . newspaper,
knov bat liltls more what is go
their oan country than in the
- eide Gran3 Mogul. What
hi q their own political affairs,
- fsun verbal communications,
Z . i - 10 various peTversions, col
:. end misconceptions-and, acting
4 oweh denominations only, they
bsuss - discharge tho high and holy and
esurss sssponsib:e duty Of . Judge over
Isa,s actions and principles. They ven
luve upon attempting to sattle the affairs
ofa great nation, extending thro' various
degrees Of latitude, and emlodying an
immense variety ofinterests and prejudice .
-apd shis without the study or qualifi-
esaiens demanded even in the teacher OF a
common country school, extending not
over 20 feet square! What judge!
Nswspepers are, in this country, one OF
he nscessssiss Of life, secosd only to food
ard clothing, and ss impsriously deman-
ding The attention and forethoughs OF men
% kss and hsbitations. Think Of living
in this world, and Of knowing nothing Of
what 10 going ON within it! Think OF
sevolutioa here, and an earthquake there
~ moverents and agitations IN one
pjsos inAneseisa - dssaiaiee q naf'sea
- ~ vosA f6s yeaSs, end Of improve
msets ord advances IN other Placos, e'e-
vnaiae and enrolling the condition Of man
-ae3 yet . freeman, in q free country
sasadine amidst all, affected by all, ano
YET ienosant Of all! What a blank, cy-
nAer = euch q man! how little above
nsre animal, who eats as be eats. breathes
a. be bseathes, and above whom he Is only
IN the faculty Of speech! For what IS IN
tej)ect without facts, information, direction
calculation! What but mere slumber'ng
sated up, smo,hered ember, needing the
Eaunine breeze Of what is going on IN tht
world. what the world docs as inspired By
chat II knows-and that breeze, the new
Of tbe day. the hurry, the hustle and OK
element or the time in which we live, move
think! II is good foundation on which
to build. But The superstructurc IS to 81
reared now.-This moments knowledge
u worth al past knowledge, as the time
peesent - worth all past time, and as ne
no would benefit mankind or do honor e
h;mselc mus, come forth into the world, .
know what the world 10 doing, and sbaP'
and embody its energies.
History 70 important, every body grants
Science ID important in all ESTIMATION
Pnl;,;cs ara sovernment-and as govern
-e.t = eosd or bad, 30 is psople pros
psro,,s o. wretchej generally s.'eak'ng
Bot hsse, in . newspaper, we have the
hieessv Of the very day, all sPread before
- v,ih = vitality and freshness no hister'-
a can eousl. The very things themselves,
nos ,hsir images, not their shadowy ghosts,
A. haSore YOU. The substance out Of
which history IL to be woven, il upon the
a.hle. Men talk for themselves-snd no
I;eaes;.ns talk for them. You are living
among Ill, and are interested in all-and
viii 70 refuse to buy TO read, aye, to study
chat Won are 80 much interested In?-Bui
.ewxapers arc more than historians. =
They parade before you all the inventions
and discoveries Of the times-they trifie
with you, sport with you a. well as IN
struct yen. BY your own fire side, fa'
from the scenes Of interest. no matter
whether you are in q crowded city, o. IL
q remote country house, yet they bring
III before Won, and to the very life-ane
you ere a. we'll and 0etter informed BY
them % he who has seen and participated
IN IN. You need not stir from your farm
o. your own chair, from your bed even; ana
yet these little messengers, silent and
epeechless as they are, wall take you int
the vide world and show forth all that j:
going on.