The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-12-29
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0qunsY Newspaper.
Tbs American citizen i. aflo,tsd to
.IH III: JrrrEnsey s1Tzras IN.

HtaIhdDie saiuDTNy' f1rTe, tne soil Is rich,
and highly productive in fruits, vegetables
and grains. The mountains are big with
the choicest minerals and the most usetsl
metals. For propeliing machinery Tiers
are flowing and gushing streams in abun-
dance The narts for commerce. are nu-
raerous; aud the shores on the east and
on the west are Indicated with many safe
haToors aud capaclous anctorages. Vita
all there advantages, the American citlzea
may count, IN addition, the freedom c!
representative republican government.
But, aa without industry, there would BE-
no ships Ter the harbors - 10 commerce for
the ports-no machinery for the streams
Of Wateg-aud the minerals and metals
would lie still in the womb of their moth
er earth and neither grains, nor vegeta-
bles, nor fruits spring from the soil, 80
without the oxidation Of the people by
education, our experiment. of. free govera-
ment IS truitless, and there REMAINS no &c.,
Jtty f3r life or property.
To encourage the industry requisite far
the development Of the resources Of thu
country, and 10 lay the foundation OF The
happiness of the people is an object and
duty OF government and equally 50 to
establish and maintain disseminating avs.
TEN OF educational system sufficient to
bring knowledge to the halls Of Legislation
wisdom to the seat Of justice-- reason to
the jury-bo1-and The light ottruth to all;
and Tor the encouragement of industry,
and the accomplishment OF all these high
objects OF education there are none more
efficient and effective agents to be enl-
ployed than the County Newspapers.
Newspapers become the encouraging
agents Of industry by pointing out proiita-
bic application, and by exhibiting to the
public eye the profits and honors Of labor;
and by spreading before the mind map
OF knowledge, they assist to diifuse educa-
ton; and as orators, each with thousand
tongues, they may be made the best polit.
ical enquirers, and the disclaimers of "soter
second thoughte;" and with voices to ho
heard IN every Tamiiication of the country,
they are the truSty -cntinels Of liberty. In
pubic morals, the local newspapers NAV
hold the scales; and where there are no
such newspapers it will be found Difficult.
to maintain healthy state OF public snos-
as. .
In order TO enable the County News
papers to meet the high expectation.
which they ought 10 inspire, and we'll to
perform the duty Of their agency, their
support should be sufficiently remunera-
i've to purchase the services of editors of
2duca;.on, and Of honorable bearing and
noTal character, and such as should enable
he publishers to live Up to The precept
which they teach, aud 10 maintain place
among the respectable citizens OF their
The editors and PUBLISH
RS should he placed above want, tha, their
may be maintained n indie
2endcnce Of The influence of pecuniary re-
ward3. There are, however, too few at
he County Newspapers which obtain such
/ support and instead of receiving tho
public patronage necessary to give them
he proper efficiency Of character, many Of
he County Newspapers have been per-
nitted 10 wither in their usefulne,s-to
Dose much Of the length and breadth Of
heir nap Of knowledge, and TO sink under
he competition Of the prints and reprints
IF the large cities, sustained, mainly by
he operations Of the existing laws govern-
ng the post-olice Department.
The type used for newspaper printing
1t the present date may be purchased at
small discount from previous prices; but
he cost Of type-setting is as great now as
It any past time. The prices of printing
1aper, however, has been reduced, by the
ofnew modes OF manufacture,
| considerable percentage. There have
,lso OF late been invented printing ma
hines to be worked by steam power, on
which sheets Of almost any conceivable
zc may be impressed with dispatch not
o be obtained for the moderate sized sheets
" the ordinary method of making i'm
,ressions with hand presses.
The city newspaper publishers, with an
amount of capital which could no where
,e profably employed in the prosecution
If the business Of newspaper printing ex-
,ept IN the large cities, have brought into
Use these steam printing machines, on
which they work oil their mammoth sheets,
md with the present moderate cost Of
winting paper, and by the use oftype set;
ID for and first applied to make the im-
oressions OF their daily issues, they are en-
.bled to sell them to subscribers through
,ut the country, (having them conveyed
W the mais,) at prices below the mersf
printing oil the comparatively diminutive
heets Of the country publishers, but wh,chs
9r.ce, yield the city publishers fair re-i
nuneration for the labor applied, and
ich return Tor the capital invested. In
lueucea by the eheapaess OF these city
rims and reprints, as well as by their
,road aud imposing dimensions, and the
olicitotionsSof the country postnasters,,
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