The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-03-06
Printers Eni6.
Committee.

While laurels are twned proudly around the
brows of Watts, Fulton, Ericsson, Culvani, and
other motive discoverers, few remember the glo-
rious Gutenberg, Faust and Sch@ifer, or speak
of Caxton with one half of the reverence due
But there is one motive above and beyond steam
and that is the power of prntcrs ink, which illu-
inmates the mind, and proves the guardian angel
of civilization, spreading the tidings Of learning
andrescarch to the flrthermost ends of the earth.
Talk about steam, why printers ink is its father,
its mother, and its whole family. Printers ink
rostered it and under its patronage the baby Of
Fulton has become the full grown giant of our
age. Talk about caloric, printers ink warmed the
world into fever heat long before caloric was meas
ured, or its power dreamed Of Talk Of water,
why printers ink watercd the field Of literature,
and brought cut metal Eden long ago. Talk of
gavanism, printers ink rocked its cradle and
kicked the s1ualing brat out Of its swaddling
clothes, md it has galvanized the whole universe
with shock after shock, and today it perpetu
ates the codes of Sinai and re-echoes the wall
of Calvary. 1t has nursed reforms, and even
Christianity, has paid the universal tax inhu-
encc, and acknowledged il the great engine which
guides human destiny, and which will light the
final fire that consumes the earth. Nothing
good, nothing great, nothing true nothing god
like, has survived the finger of Time like the
creations Of the printers ink without it Homer
would have long since slept in oblivion and our
age been darker than the Cimmercan Ages and
in deeper gloom than the night Of Egypt.
SEysIBLE--It tisastonishing how sensible somc
people talk. Listen.
By taking your home paper, you encourage
home enterprise,
You get information concerning affairs in your
own community which you could not get through
paper abroad.
tits the medium through which you advertise
to the world tic nature of the business in which
you are engaged-thus bringing it to the knowl-
I edge of hundreds who would otherwise know
nothing of it.
Through its columns you gain knowledge Of
[ the business enterprises Of other men--of op-
portunities for profitable investments and Of sell
4 ing the products of your labor and enterprise
to the best advantage.
Your home paper IS an institution which the
community cannot dispense with-an absolute
necessity, which all admit should be sustained
UsIxG THE NAME OF COP IN THE CONSTITUTION.
The New Orleans True DcItai speaking of the
Southern Consultation, says:
/. This alusion to the Constitution reminds
us of an improvement made by the Southern
/ Congress in introducing the name of God in its
preamble. Strangely enough this duty was
omitted in the original convention, although DR.
Franklin called for prayer with much warmth
1 When Alexander Hamilton returned to New York
after the adjournment of the Convention, a dis
tinguished clergyman of that city said: Mr.
Hamilton am much pleased with the new con
stitution, but regret that you have omitted tC
name GOdin any part oft" Upon my word,
rejoined Mr. Hamilton, Eve forgot it"
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STRoSG DRINK.-A New York chemist recently
bought of an importer bottle of what was call
ed genuine Champagne, and found, on analysis
that It contained quarter Of an ounce of sugal
Of lead. He analysed also sixteen samples o
Port, Sherry, and Madeira wines, finding sulphu
nc acid in all, but not one drop of the juice o
the grape in any.