Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-07-07

is an elementin in the social and political gov
ernment-representative, deliberate and per-
vading addressing the citizens and the mag
istrate, upholding and sustaining the good,
rebukiug and condemning the offender. It
feeds and stimulates the mind with perpet-
ual means of action teaches the ignorant to
read, to spell, to write, to think ; drawsit it out
of channels and leads it into the daylight of
the worlds deeds; and thus liberalizes, en-
larges and expands it. The newspaper press
of the United States has published more val
liable matter within twelvemouth, than the
combined press of the world published in the
first FIVE years of the present century. Link
ed to the electric telegraph, and facilitated
in its transmission by the. vast system of
railroads now in operation, it is great me-
chapical organ of speech, almost infinite in
its scope, its resources, variety, capacity and
rapidity of utterance. 1t is not so much the
product as the promoter and author Of genius
and enterprise. The aggregate matter thrown
off daily and weekly iu the United States,
nearly all ofaehich is read By the people,
is absolutely beyond computation: That it
is demanded, paid for, and perused by the
American public; that it is rapidly iDcreas-
ing in amount, influence and power, are facts
which point with significant prophecy to the
Office it holds and the authority it is destined
to WELD over the State, and from its very
nature places every other, to greater or
less extent, in subjection to its laws. 1t is,
too, conservative, 'disinterested democratic
power, difusing its blessings, elevating and
purifying those it would govern, The news
paper press is the greatest leveller. of the
age, on an ascending, not decending scale !;
because it opens to all the fountains of knowl-
edge, and provokes and insures universal in
quiry and judgement, That it has dissent.
uated error, immortality and vice; thatit has
been a.vehicle of sander and malevolence !;
that it has fomented pride and vanity; that
it has blown UP human bubbles and pricked
them into ridiculous collapse; that it has
fostered speculation, and been more or less
subservient to schemes of fraud and ambi-
ton, none can doubt. No party could
exist year without it. To. strike it down
would be to reinstate a Babel of Infinite
tongues-to paralyze and confound all ex-
isting order and action in the social and
political systems. We like to berate and
uhderrate it, but we could no nothing with
out it. We dislike to praise it or acknowl-
edge its power. Many habitaally deny its
influence, and as constantly court its favor
and its encouragement. 1t has made more
regulations for public men, more fortunes in
business, and more professional character for
individuals, than have ever been pade other.
wise by ability, energy and skill. 1t is a
great beneficiary for politicians, their main
reliance, and their only means of acquiring
public notoriety. tbs the ordnance depart
mept for politics-the arsenal and magazine
from which small minds draw their weapons
and ammunition for political welfare. 1t
furnishes them with all their data, analyses
their subjects, draws their conclusions and
confers upon them the distinction of osten.
sible authorship. It is with its thousands Of
editors, still an impersonality. The press
speaks we listen to it, not as the voice Of
one, but as the impersonal organ Of many.
1t is assailed by dwarfs and struts, who Of:
ten affect to treat it with disdain, to the in
finite amusement of its laborious conductors.
-Quincy (Winois) Herald.