Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-11-13
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to township, from neighburhood to neighbor-
hood, aud this general proposition holds good,
that tgo-thrds Of hose rho take cir politics from
regularly rcaing ono or moro newspapers rote On
tsc right siis. ieile Mose tcko pick np ,hdi hale
tbey k,,o,r Of public affairs IN bar-rooRs aud kin
tirei hdR1as ~ seHsuetty tote The other ray. Scru-
tnizc closely almost any township which is
pretty equally divided IN politics, and you will
pcrueiyo the same general truth-that two-thirds
bf the voters who regularly take aud read a
newspaper vote with the Unionists while two
thirds of the hoseholds wherein no newspaper
is taken give their votes to the Sham Democra-
cy. The young men who are esteemed studious,
widely informed, extensive and habitual read
ers, are mainly on the right side; while those
who read little or nothing, and the little mainly
in grog-shops, are usually Copperheads.
If it were a part of the common law of this
country that at least newspaper should be
taken in every family, or at least as uniformly
as the children are sent to school, it would not
be possible tn elect a Nalandgham or Horatio
Seymour to a great public trSst. Such men in
office are tho toadstools that spring from a soil
rank with popular Ignorance and vice. just as
the Rebellion could not have been possible had
the Southern masses been educated and accus-
toned to read so it would be found 50 damaging
and futile as to be in effect impossible to main
tain the position which the Democratic party
now holds with regard TO Slavery aud the War
for the Union were the people universally well
tnlOfNleu WIN lPguIu W puDuC dHdlfS
We are just opening the most momentous year
in our country's history. Within that year, it
is highly probable that the Shareholders Rebel
lion will somehow collapse and the authority of
the Federal Government over the revolted States
he practically reasserted. Within that year we
shall decide whether Slavery shall or shall not
survive the more immediate arrest of the dead
ly, parlcidal blow it aimed at the heart of the
Republic. Within that year, President will
be chosen for four ensuing years. who must love
and cherish supremely either Liberty or Slave
ry-who will be the generous, admiring COM
patriot or at heart the foe Of those who have so
nobly oppt sed their breasts to the shock of Reb-
el assault on our Union--who will utterly alb
hor or dexterously play with the idea of a repu-
diation Of our National Debt-who will, in short
continue aud complete the work of National
salvation from slaveholding treason, or become
the tool and plaything of conspirators by whom
the ruin of the Republic was plotted and all but
accomplished.
The work Of preparation for the eventful can
vass ofls6i properly commences no,c. Through
out the ensuing three months, the industrious
classes have more leisure than at other seasons
Now is the time to form or to invigorate habits
of reading with reference to public AFFAIRS
Now is the time to persuade every farmer me-
chanic teamster, or day laborer, to take at least
ono good newspaper and make himself better
acquainted with the daily progress of public af-
fairs. Now is the time to sow broadcast the
seeds which shall ripen for the harvest of next
November.
MADAME" said John Randolph to lady
deeply interested in the struggles and sufferings
of the Greeks, then breaking their Turkish
chains, "the Greeks are at your doorl" SO we
say to every patriot, Your work lies directly ]
around you'll Let concerted effort be made TO
place at least one good newspaper, for the ensu-
ing year, in every household in the loyal States
where it will be welcomed and read. Perhaps
half of those who now do without do so from
mere heedlessness-they only need to have their
attention called to the subject Many more will
pay the trfie that a cheap weekly costs if each
is solicited to do so by a friend in whom he has
confidence. And, if their be any who cdnt pay
for such paper they ought to be supplied by !
their fortunate neighbors and townsmen with
out charge. Yes, even though it be a widow
family of boys who not to vote these eight
years, they should thus be supplied, with view
to their qualification for the wcghty trust of
electors at that distant day.
Unionists of every State, County, City, Town
ship and neighborhood we entreat your imme-
diate and cooperative action with a view toi
supplying every family now destitute with some
good public journal for the ensuing yearl Getl
every one to subscribe and pay who can be per-
suaded do so; but, if there be others, have them
supplied somehow. Let not the year 1864 open
upon you with duty still in abeyance. Let
County and Township organizations aid the
work so far as possible; but let not the New
Year dawn upon us till, all over the loyal States
every family that can be persuaded to take and
read one is provided with some good Union
journal for the WHOLE of that yeari-M Y. 7Ii6.
To the Union people, and the friends of the
Fremont JOURNAL in Sandusky county, we
commend the above remarks They are plain,
true words. The education of the masses thro-
out all neigbborhoods, is one Of the absolute ne
cessites to the preservation of our Republican
Institutions in their purity; and the oneness of
the States depends mainly upon the truth and
democracy of that instruction. Truth needs no
disguises or apologies for its presentation, and,
sooner or later according to the faithfulness of
its advocates, it must overcome all opponents.
That the Fremont JOURNAL is a permanent
institution Of Sandusky county, needs no argu-
ment to prove. For thirty -four years it has
been printed in this town, and for the past ten /
years it has been edited and published by our
self-and for ten years to come, Providence per-
mitting. we intend to send it out, that it may
educate and instruct the people. We think it
lis better paper than when we first took hold
of it, at least we are willing TO let those who
read it be the judges of its merits. We may
say, however, that it has the whole of our care
and attention.
For the past year we have thought the JoURN-
AL ought to do more good, that it ought to speak
TO more people, be found in more shops and at
more -sides--as we are persuaded that it ad-
yocates true principles. Being thoroughly sat
isfied upon this point decision has been made.
and the purpose is being carried out, We can
just as well talk to two thousand as to one thou
sand, and what we now ask for, is the congrega-
tion to whom We may do the talking.
We have ordered from Hoe d Co. S establish
uent in New York one of his Railway Printing
Machines, capable Of printing from FIVE hundred
to eight hundred impressions an hour, which
will arrive here within the next thirty days, and
will cost as over eleven hundred dollars We
have ordered, and are about to order five hun
Ared dollars worth of new type, which will al
so arrive here within the next four weeks.
On the eighth of January next, we shall COM
mence the Mirty.Jy1h year Of the JouRsAL on
an enlarged sheet-making it column wider
and the width of column longer-equal to one
whole page larger than it now is. The size Of
our sheet is now 25 by 81 inches, it win then be
% by 42--larger than any other county paper
in Northern Ohio. During the past year, ow-
jng to the greatly increased prices of printing
paper, labor and all materials, most editors have
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