Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-07-31
Hon. 7. S. Brooks.
From the Columbia Times.
Northern w. Southern Journals.

We have observed frequently, within the past
few weeks. the most extrnvagant praise of the
New York Day Book. by some of our Southern ex-
changes, and the strongest appeals made to the
Southern public to give it liberal support.
OF course we have no objection to the policy
pursued by the Day Book or the principles touch
ing Southern institutions which it a'lyocates but,
we do protest against the conduct Of Southern men
in this particular.
IF Northern journal pursues Just and honest
policy, nothing thnn what it ought to do, the
strongest efforts are put forth to give it crcula-
ton in the South whilst Mt the same time Southern
journals allowed To drag out sickly existence.
The New York Herald has boen built up in this
way and now behold its position. 1t was Mt one
time ready to draw its sword in defence of the
South and her Institutions, but now it assais both
and traduces her Statesmen.
Why are Southern journals allowed to struggle
for bare existence and at the same time large
amounts are contributed to enrich northern peri
odicals?
The "Ezaminer," published in this city by W.
B. Johnston ESQ.,, is one of the very best Journals
ever issued in the South, and yet we hear very lit
tie abont it. notwithstanding it is bold and firm
advocate of Southern Rights and Southern men,
and merits liberal patronage, not only because its
politics are decidedly Southern hut also because
tis edited with greatAhity.
Much may he said of many other Southern
Journals and Periodicals worthy the liberal pat
ronage of the people of the South; hut, alns, they
enlist little sympathy. 1t is because they are
known to be true and cannot be bought up? It
seems so, for it has become very common to send
large sums of money Northward MS q sort of re-
ward for those journalists who vouchsafe an occa-
sonal puff Of Southern men and assume to he
champions for the South. We will yonture the
assertion that if proposition were seriously made
in Columbia, to-day, to raise bonus for the New
York Day Book, many would be found to contrib
ute literally to push it ahead and at the same mo-
ment if the claims of stnunch Southern journal
were presented or hill rendered for payment, the
individual canvassing would be put off or told that
their newspaper bills are sufficiently large and
must be curtailed. The secret is easily OWNED
in the former case the contributors name would
be paraded and his vanity gratifed. whilst in the
Inter, the net would he private and consequently
lose public reward.
It is time that Southern men think of changing
their habits in this respectand encourage own
District, State and Southern papers and leave the
people of the North to sustain theirs.
After penninga portion of the above article W"
observed in the Examiner an editorial on this SUBJ
ject which weappend:
NORTHERN JOURNALS WITH SOUTHERN PRINCI-
pLEs.-We have not much faith in papers publish
ed at the North but protesting to be intensely
Southern in principle. Some years ago the New
York HerdH affectedto be very friendly to us and
our institutions; now With the Tribune and others
of that ik, it has become ambitious Of being dis
tinguishcd as the leading organ of Black Repub-
licanism.
And what guaranty have the Southern people,
who forward their dollars to Northern publishers,
that other papers now batting their hooks with
open-mouthed professions of friendship for the
South will not on the first opportunity, whether
presented by pecunary interest or n sympathetic
feeling with the public sentiment around them,
haul down the flag of Southern Rights, and run
up that of Black Republicanism. Should there
be any decline or falling off in Southern support
they will very likely do so.
Northern newspapers protesting Southern prin-
ciples have few subscribers Mt home. While the
Tribune, Herald, Tmes &C., number their subscri-
bers in that region by their fifty and seventyfive
thousands, the others who speak and promulgate
opposite principles have few. very few readers in
that latitude. No benefit, then, accrues to the
Southern cause there, in Southerners sustaining
by their subscriptions these journals. The senti-
ment of gratitude, however, and just appreca-
ton of bold and manly avowal of correct prin-
ClpIcS i'll tne ulust vi cTIOT, lnpel Int peoplo vi
the South to bestow this mark of their approba-
tion. -...
There are very few-but they are very few
journals published in New York and in Boston
which seem to deserve the confidence and support
of our people, and we are gratifed to perceive
that they give it cheerfuy; but it strikes that
the first duty is to build up and sustain their own
presses, NIL of which, with extremely few excep-
tions, are eminenty worthy of such support.