Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-06-17
Williamson correspondence.
TRIuNR, gV'mson CO., TenrI -
June II, 1851. {
Editors of Fare tteriHc O6serrer:

\ Editors OF Fayetteville ObSerrer:
.GENTLEMES Please to SCI Id md
a number of y our gazette, and when
1 l ascertain thP terms Of subscrip-
ton, and your name, / will remit th{
price of the weekly paper for si1,
months or a year. One common
tale, from a Northern emporium Of
vice and speculation, seems to per-
wade all the cit y presses, to the villa
ges Of the differ ent counties through
out the country. They are thuE
more tradit iond i and less original III
my opinion thah they should be. ]
engage several gazettes with some
hope Of a variety of matter, but find
one federal or free Statel copy and
chime, retailed, as b household word.
by mostly adj. This formal routine
shows design III its origin, is dis
tasteful and fuls9lne, and rather luis
] inquiry, Supplies and misinforms the
reader, than edit les and improves him
lin knowledge. This no doubt is an
object and apurpose with the federal
Ipress, namely: to keep the people. ig-
lnorant, and to. conceal their own pol
Iicy, and principles III dark recess or
corner Hence a desire to gag them,
land cilrtail t be i berty Of speech, Of
iconsfience, and Of the press, if it
could be done dif cctlyaor indirectly.
An babitual phraa eology, in the style
Iof novel, is d cultivated and de
Scribos. in a lofty tone of etiquette,
almost everything as in the language
of a parrot tutor ed to it. Other
presses at the am bilious and regent
city, seem to be cor troled BY political
hackn9ys and scr pmblers for office,
for salary, and for privilege, The
public agents Of be people and the
press, should be tn + sentinels Of the
country, to guard its rights and lib-
critics, and to sound the alarm when
AL things are not v eli. But, as the
doctrines of the Republic in 177G
prove, mere independence, candor
and sincerity, prevail in retirement,
where none only a common interest
influences and dict ties tho prudent
and political course and confines Of
public action. Misfreancy and mis-
representation. are only the subter-
fuges Of guilt and IA alftasance; truth
anG reason, tact and argument, readily
disperse aud subyert them, where
honesty and virtue predominate---
As I have discontinued my Nashville
papers, / hope to fl I'd the affairs Of
the State mostly i ecorded il the
,Q5seygo, or some OF her paper Of the
country. If yeu should think it
proper to send ME Your gazette, l
would like to troublH you with an
occasional commune Ition on public
affairs, subject to you + discretion and
sense Of its proprieIy or utility for
Insertion in a newspap Per. Please to
forward the OJs0yd !, if at all, by
the direct and neareF st route, super
sdribed "via Shelby Fille," which, /
suppose, is I he near est Irdcticable+
why; where the pos Em9ster is re-
quested to send my pgpfrsIby the
weekly mail, straightly to |Tliune.-I
For six months nay papers and letters
have been detained, sent as tray, or
parloincd at Nashville, the mass of
documents seems to be TOP great
there for careful distribution, and I
wish to eschew the pred arious chances
of. the locality. Under the auspices
of Hall and Eitz Warren, tho confu-
sion aud misnlanagement Of the mail
Is great throughout the Uni n. In
SO mail robbers were ar
rested, and among them judges, mag
is}rates, constables, doctors, q nd 9th
ers and all tie elan not yet told. /
Tie present is an admih istration, the |
majority of Congress incluB ive, of
fraud and chicanery, Of pillagc and
robbery.
I a m, respectful ~,
Your humble sev It,
]. N. S.