Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-11-28
For the Journal.

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tober number of g The Evergreen" monthly pa
per. published by R. H. Brown, Esq, in Ashboro'
North Carolina.
My object in writing this notice is to call the at
tention of your readers to the paramount claims
of this journal. The mind of every North Carroll
MAN should be awakened to the Importance, yea
necessity of establishing and sustaining literary and
educational journals within State. Journal
ism seems to afford the chief educational element of
the present day, and its literature form the most i'm
portant reading of the people. From the village
newspaper that reaches weekly the poor mans dwell
ing to the finer embellished magazine, addressed to
the more wealthy and educated the dazzling
quarterly of larger size and higher pretensons to
scholarship its influence is vast and uncomfortable
For my part appreciate as highly the Oft
turning paragraphs of the newspaper, when proper
" conceived and directed, as the more elaborate
highly polished and learned criticism of the Re-
views. AS an instrument in directing and swaying
the minds of the people the chief essence of power
in republican government-as the simple but pow
erful machine for pushing forward those grand mo-
raj and political reforms. by which governments, as
well as individuals, obtain higher state of amelio-
ration-as vehicle for effecting good, and enfor-
cling right, justice and equity among we'll as
nations, in all human agencies. the public press is
without equal. No voice speaks so lou'-no eIo-
quence widespread, no book fills wider scope,
or whose influence penerates a deeper retirement
than the newspaper, This species of composition
says intelligent writer, is confined to chron-
icing events they arse-to recording the incidents
of the day, fighting the battles of transient par
ties. Higher objects often engage it, The instruct
ing of society in the nature of government the ncul
eating of great principles, the application Of judi
cious criticism, the development and controlling of
social tendencies, the direction of public opinion
the exposition Of public characters, the prosecution
of grand moral reforms and the correcting of pre-
vaillng inquites and frauds: among its princi-
pal functions, The editor is stationed, sentinel
upon the watchtowers Of society. to warn it of the
approach of dangers; to summon it to battle, and
to cheer it to success. As the mails carry his
specuations from one city to another, and from
State to another his action spreads like the waves
of IL pool in concenric circles and before the last
ripple has subsidized. the waters at the centre are
again disturbed' If then the press is so powerful
for good or tor evil does it not show the great
sity of establishing and encouraging those among
us, of soil and climate, bone of our bone
and flesh of our fesh, whose editors are alike iden-
tilted in sentiment and interest," and from their icll-
nation and position upon the watchtowers, can ap.
prove and encourage what is right, discover what is
wrong and correct avert its tendencies and spread
the germs of prosperity and peace among our citi-
zens, instead of sowing the seeds of strife, of civil
dissension, and. may say, of disgust of our
cal habits and institutions, insdiously done by
some of our northern journals $50
In proportion to the reading population of this
State, we import more newspapers and magazines
than any other State in the Union. We are south
ern people with northern preferences. Present to
some of our citizens the prospectus of southern pc
riodical, and you answered. take Grahams
Magazine Godeys Iadys Book, Harpers Magazine,
Sartain's Magazine, the Yankee Blade the Post, or
Tribune, Cor some other of that numerous class of
cheaper publications. and these are of a larger
size and of higher pretensons and then, so mich
cheaper TOO we cannot take yours Yes: and proba-
bly, the frontsplece of some Of these cheaner''
publications is richly adorned with the carcature of
poor, wretched negro in limbo receiving the stripes
from cruel master. - ''
Who is responsible for this manifest preference for
northern publications? Who publishes and pafs
their prospectus? Southern Editors Who an
nonnces their monthly reception and puhs their
tents Southern Editors Who refuses to notice
Norm CGfOt3flH pNbttCdtf0HS! Norm CGFO!5pa En-
tors! These periodicals, too just struggling from be-
meath the encumbering rubbish of neglect to reach
the sunshine of popular patronage needing their
praises and deserving their encouragement but
they receive it not. Now, Mr.. Editor, how many
persons in Eastern North Carolina, do you suppose
know that there is such paper The Evergreen,
containing thirty-one pages and published in Ash
boro at the remarkably low price OF dollar per
year? Have you announced through : The
Journal the publication Of such work think
not Now | will inform you how ascertsined my
self its publication. Being DESTROYS Of obtaining
literary paper for general reading, sent South,
direction opposite the usual course and obtained the
:! Literary Gazette" published in Charleston, South
Carolina, and from that paper ascertained thatFs
spirited literary paper published in my own
State, for which Immediately subscribed
Other States have their medical ournals-medcal
colleges agricultural and literary papers but We
have them not We are far behind the progress of
the age. have heard native born sons Of our State
with all the Indignation of honest pride hsrl back
to the vile source from whence it came" the
temptuous epithet that North Carolina was the Rip
have ever felt that she deserved it. She needs re-
form in all branches Of her industry occupations and
professions. She needs the quckening influence and
energy of loftier State pride among her Editors,
her Legislators and her citizens Where exists the
history of North Carolina Is it with her sons to
excite their emulation and inspire them with the
love and admiration due a noble and patriotic an
cestry? Pent up in the musty archives of Europe
where it has been obi reached by some Indifferent
Lterat who dole it out to in precious morsels
by cent per cent. operation Had we, as South
Carolina. Gilmore Simms to write our history
and immortalize the deeds of forefathers would