Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-28
The New Postage.

This law will go into operation on the first
day ofnext month.and after the present week
our subscribers residing within the limits Of
Sandusky County will receive the Freeman
without the payment of Postage; and those
out of the County, and within fifty miles Of
this place, viii be obliged TO pay only FIVE
cents per quarter, or twenty cents per year.
Will our friends in the different townships in
this county, use their exertion to increase
our list Of subscribers?
We copy from an exchange. the following
judicious remarks in relation to the new post
age Law, and recommend them to the atten-
ton Of our readers; ''5 t#a -97 &.
We have already alluded to the fact that
the new Post Office Law, which is to 90 into
effect shortly, authorises the free transmission
of newspaper by mail, within limits of the
county in which they are published, and the
hope was expressed, that many would avail
themselves Of this privilege. and add their
names to our subscription list Local news
papers are often too much neglected by the
people of the neighborhood and county
in which they are printed. and that too, be-
cause their importance is not properly appre-
ciated. It seems strange that persons should
overlook the incidents and facts by which they
are Immediately surrounded, and fail to render
encouraging assistance to journals devoted to
the dissemination of facts and maintenance of
interests peculiarly their own, while they sub
scribe lberally for papers which aie issued
from some more remote place and are made
up with details of general character only.
Such, however, is the fact, and a moments
reflection will induce the conviction that il
is not as il should be- Local or county papers
are indispensable to the general welfare
They are hand boards of what is going on in
detached communities-records of its legal
political and peculiar history. AS such they
should be encouraged by all as a matter Of
duty. and the labor and energy of their pub
fishers ought not fail Of Just and remunerate
reward. One county paper should be taken
at least ia every family-then if its means
justify large expenditures for such object.
others can and ought to be subscribed for. But
subscriptions to remote journals to the exclu-
sion of localones, cannot, we think, be justified
on any principle of fairness. It is taking
away support from domestic enterprise which
is far more important valuable than most per-
sons are in the habit of regarding it. 81
The excuse is not unfrequently given thatlo-
cal newspapers are inferior in merit and the
ability with which they are conducted to other
published elsewhere. Admit this to be
the fact and what is proven by it
in nine cases out of ten? Nothing but that
the deficiency in ability which is complained
offs the natural consequence of the feeble and
languishing support which is given to the SO
styled inferior papers. lfthey were snstain-
ed as they ought to be, liberally, actively and
punctually, our word for il the improved con-
dition of the publisher and editor would be
exhibited not only in the appearance of the
journal but also in the varied interest and
strength of its columns. gs
There is, we venture to say. as much talent
engaged in laborious efforts to keep country
newspaper alive, as can be found employed in
the publication Of an equal number of popular
and flourishing city journals. Circumstances
prevent the one class from exhibiting their
abilities as faVorably as the other; for it not
unfrequenty happens, that in order to gain a
mere livelihood, the publisher OF county pa
per is compelled to assume in his own person
the duties of editor, compositor, proof reader
and pressman, and of consequence he is pre-
cluded from deyoting to any of the several de-
partments :he particular attention which justly
belongs toit I....
Support your county papers Iberally and
you will find their merits increase in cores
ponding ratio. Let subscription list and ad-
vertising and job patronage justify publish
er employ editorial assistance, and his columns
will teem with good things; whilst he himself
will be enabled to devote more time and at
tention to other duties of equal magnitude
Try the experiment, friends and you will find
that the better you reward publishers en-
terprise, the richer will be the fruit you reap
yourselves.
GE Some one in London has hitMr. Gree
ley with brick, for he writes that he saw
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