The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-05-24

newspaper, lOuCHeS uP thO LoIuS vi lHC
Loom" in the Northern States, thus:
"The whole non-slaveholding States
make a regular business of traducing their
Southern brethren, Cor the sin of holding
slaves. Yet to one of the articles pro-
duced by the labor of these very slaves,
do thes owe the unrivalled prosperity
which they now enjoy. But for the cnl-
ture of cotton, where would be the millions
of souls with which these States are now
teeming! They have, in one year, nearly
taken a half million of bales. Their pros
perity is as dependant upon the cotton crop
as that of Louisiana. The manufacturer
of Lowell is as much interested in the high
or low price of slaves, as any planter in
Mississippi or Alabama. His interest is
as much bound up in slave labor, as that
of the man who owns them. He does not,
it is true, pay his money for the slave,
superintend his work, or sell its proceeds.
But he offers inducements to his actual
owner to do all this. BY holding out in
ducements, he prevails upon him to add
to his stock of slaves. By making them
the more valuable, he renders their eman-
cipation the more difficult. BY raising
the price of the commodities which he
produces, he tempts the owner to exact
more work from the slave.
While so much eloquence is wasted by
the Northern press in abuse of those who
grow the cotton, something, We venture
to suggest, should be said with regard to
those who manufacture it. As long as
the non-slaveholding States grew rich up
on the product of slave labor, we think it
little hard that the owners of the slaves
should be the burden Of their abuse. If
the ''traffic in human flesh" be so detesta-
ble-if slavery be what Northern men
represent it-if the STAKEHOLDER be the
worst of fends and of cut-throats-as we
hear daily from the North, then it cannot
be righteous to grow rich out of the pro-
duet of his sins The wages of iniquity
surely cannot thrive. The Jews were
warned nither to touch, taste, nor handle
"the accnrsed thing" The accursed
thing" SO far as the non-slaveholding
States are concerned, is Southern cotton.
Let them, then, not meddle with Southern
cotton, for, according to their own show
ing, curse clings to it. Let them stop
their steam mills, and their power looms;
let them abolish Springfield and shut up
Lowell; and let the ''lords of the loom' no
longer minister to the .'lords of the South. +"
ORIGIN OF NEwsPAPERs.-Am the mill
ions who are in the habit of consulting the
columns of a newspaper, doubtless there
are few, mparatively y, who are acquain-
ted with IFS origin. According to D'Isra-
al we are ipdahted m the Italiane for the
idea; although in ancient Rome, reports
of important events, and the doings of the
Senate were frequently published under
the title of 'sActs Diurna." The periodi-
cal properly commenced at Vienna and
Augsburg, Germany, in 1924; these bulle-
tins were, however, not printed. Thirty
volumes of these manuscript newspapers
existed in the Magliabechten library, al
Florence. About the year of 1868, at the
suggestion of the father of the celebrated
Montague, offices were first established il
France, for the purpose Of making the
wants of individuals known to each other
The advertisements received were pasted
on the walls to attract attention; as in tht
case of the Romans, this ultimately led t
a systematic and periodical publication o
advertisements IN sheets. The epoch 0
the Spanish Armada is also the epoch o
the first orthodox newspaper. In the Brit
ish museum are several newspapers prin
ted while the Spanish fleet was in the Eng
lish Channel, during the year 1858.
was strictly the organ of the government
and probably its leading editor might hav
been "the great Lord Burghley;" it wa
styled "The English Mercurie." TIL
earliest specimen referred to in the BIRTHS
Museum, is marked No. so, and is in Re
man, not in black letters; and, as to ii
contents, it might almost be supposed tn
model OF the ''London Gazette">of the pre-
ent day. During the reign Of James
newspapers in the quarto form, were o.
casionally issued; but during the thirt
years war, when the exploits Of Gustav
Adolphus attracted the eyes of the civl
, lied world, we find regular weekly p;
per, edited by Nathaniel Butler, and pu
ished under the title of 1.-The certai
News of the present Week." which ma
be regarded as the first regular week
newspaper.
During the civil war in England,
/, 1643, there were, however, a score
f 'sDiurnals" and "Murcuries,' in circul
tion. Their titles were quaint and curior
: such as the following: Truths from York
: "Warrant Tidings from Ireland" aspect
l Passages from Various Places" and n
e merous others of a more ludicrous chara
a ter.
{. So important an auxiliary was the pre-
considered, indeed, that each of the riv
y = armies carried printer along with it.
the reign of Queen Anne, 1902, there W
but one daily paper published in Londc
. the others being weekly issues. Stee
J introduced politics as an especial eleme
a of the press, and Addison sought to devc
q q it to purely literary purposes: the res'
I has been the establishment of distinct '
I hicles for both. The first journal havi
= !, the character of magazine, or revie
u wac th., st To,4ry,a1 das Savants - establish