The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-01-06
CARRIERS GREETING.
Il, 1855.

oaoE more the Carrier walks his round
With greeting kind and cheer:
Wishing to all. both great and small.
prosperous New Yeari
For many a day, DER weary miles,
The Carrier has totrudge it
Through rain, sleet, snow and mud below.
To carry round his budget
CusroM has so long demanded at the hand of
Newspaper Carriers an Address on the COM
mencement Of the New Year, that a del arturo
from the practice would now be regarded as an
anomaly. It is true those Addresses have gem
orally been but poor doggerel, designed simply
to establish friendly relations between the Car
rier and the patrons of the paper, and afford, an
opportunity to the latter. of expressing in q
SUBSTANTIAL MANNER their appreciation of the
services Of the former. In an utilitarian age,
however. when old forms are becoming ebsoletes
and the demand is rather for substance than
shadow. may it not be well to attempt to show
the valae Of the services thus ren dered.
1t was not entirely a chimerical boast of the
great mathematician when he exclaimed
a Give me a .fulcrum for my lever, and l
will move the Earth I" In what constitutes
the intellectual and moral world, that desidera-
tum was supplied by the introduction of the
Art preseryative Of eli Arts" Blot from
existence these little movable Types-the
great, broad ocean of communication between
mind and mind-and you win have let fall
the drop-curtain upon the theatre Of intel
lectual and moral progress.
The great minds who have ruled the destiny
of the world, have accomplished their ministry
rather BY intimation than actual knoWiedge--
The system of inductive philosophy inaugura-
ted by Bacon is far better understood to-day by
our school boys than It was known to the great
English philosopher ; and the intellect which
developed the laws Of gravitation from the fall
ing Of an supple, might now receive instruction
in our common schools. 1t has been in the
analysis Of crude ideas = in the tracing out of
prophetic indications, that the problem Of in
tsilsct and progress has been solved. In other
Awords, it il to the communion of mind with
mind-the interchange of ideas that we owe
our present position. True, it was necessary
there should be q CoLuHBus to explore the great
unknown ocean but when the shores of a con-
tinant were discovered, the labor of the hardy,
patient pioneer was necessary to disPlace the
wilderness and render it fit for the abode of ca
vilization. So, while NE are largely indebted
to tie inventive minds who have suggested the
great indicia of philosophical truth, we are at
the same time under obligations to the patient,
ploddine mediums who have worked out the
problems and become the interpreters of the
~oracles.
OF the means employed to disseminate know
ledge, first and last in Importance is the Art of
PRixr1se. Previous TO this invention, no doubt
men lived who possessed all the comprehensive
and inventive genius of those who have given
Laws and Arts and Sciences to the world and
vet, what does the world now know of their far
reaching speculations Nothing. save a con-
fused mass Of mythical traditions. Their great
pozers of intellect tended to elevate them above
the masses, and, at times, gave them a supre-
macy but their observations and deductions
are lost to us for want of a medium through
which they could be transmitted. And even in
the same age, and contiguous, were perhaps
minds travelling with important truths, yet I'M
bera, which needed but the presence of kindred
intellect to usher them into existence, to become
= blessing to the human family.
How vast the difference now A sage in his
closet has elaborated a new theught-crude it
may be-but winged upon its mission, and
borne by the ubiquitous power of Type through
the world, it has made millions think. and will
become the watehword of a reform the Mar
s~eillaise Of q suffering humanity.
If we could investigate the unwritten history
Of those great discoveries and inventions which
have the most benefited mankind. we would
find that they were the result. not Of one inyen-
tive genius. but the gathering and combining of
the observations Of many. FRANKLIN with his
kite laid the corner stone of the Electric Tele
graph; and we owe our Railroad system to the
suggestions Of q printers boy. IT is the facility.
then, with which the observations Of inquiring
minds are transmitted to those who in turn send
them forth impressed with renewed force and
sigor, that givts to the present age so great a
superiority In an that conduces to the comfort
and well of society And this medium
OF communication has been supplied by the Art
Of Pars1rze.
Foremost in the accomplishment Of this in
valuable service. must be placed the Newspaper
Press. Books, in the present railway speed of
intellectual progress, are being superseded, like
the four horse coaches of old and the media of
concentration in the Intellectual world is now
found in the periodicals Of the day. No man
who wishes to keep posted in that which per-
tains to his political or Individual interests, will
neglect this medium. In it are found discussed,
by the best i~ntellects Of the age. the great ques
tions of Religious and Political Economy and
in a Government like ours, where its true inte-
rests are best subserved by the general spread Of
intelligence. it becomes every mar. who has the
good Of our common country at heart, to exert
his efforts to secure the establishment of the
local press upon such a basis rs viii to the
fullest extent permit its usefulness to be put
forth.
Reader. in these general observations we will
have accomplished our purpose. if you should
thereby be induced (if not already to become a
paying subscriber to "THE ASHLAND UNION: :"
and particularly ut this season of festivity to
SUBSTANTIALLY remembe the Carrier who. with
out regard to the ~inclemency of the season,
weekly places at your door an epitome of all
that is interesting in the Literary. PhilOeophi-