Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-03-02
lCOrre pondence of the UniOn.I
Views Of on Old Journalist as to Cur Enter
priss.-0Ur Ticket and Our Prospeets.-
Reflections on the Situation.

IN acknowledging the receipt OF copy oi
your paper, can not withhold the expression
Of my surprise that you shsuld endeavor 10
publish such journal for the very low price
Of one dollar per annum. In typographical
execution, editorial tact, and general man.
agement, ii is equal to the best county news
papers in the State, and in size and appear
nnce superior TO the majority of the two dol
lar papers. How you are able to sustain such
an enterprise I can not comprehend, at the
present high prices Of paper. material anl la
bnr-- 1t must either be kept going by heavy
expenditures from the proprie;or'S purse, or
by an exceedingly liberal patronage. At the
subscription price, an satisfied that there
is no profit TO you-and the friends Of your
paper owe it to themselves to see that you
have very large circulation in Champaign
anu the adjoining counties
The first duty Of every good citizen ia to
encourage mechanics and enterprisiag men
in his own locality, and above all Is It incum-
bent npon him to support the local newspa-
per, that speaks all the good it can. and gives
through local pride the best coloring to eve
rything that transpires in tie neighborhood
He should not only take, but should pay in
advance-and should by advertising and Job
work, when he has any, always give prefer
ence to his own local printing establishment
I affirm. that good citizen cannot subscribe
for city daily, or other paper away from
home until he has first subscribed AID paid
for his own county paper And the man
who pays in advance for a foreign paper and
waits to be dunned by the publisher, and
then grumbles and delays paying for his home
paper, is mean and contemptbIsi however
seli-imporiant may be his daily parade.
I sometimes feel like writing humily on
the newspaper question in all its lights and
bearings, as known to me by tie experience
Of quarter Of a century. It is a subject up
On which much has been said, and much
yet remains unsung
am glad to see that you have raised the
Union flag inscribed with the names Of Ne
Clellan and Campbell for President aud Vice
President In these times Of peril and gloom
true and tried men are needed st the head OF
the government; and you may search the
country through and not find more fitting
men for standard bearers. A personal ac-
quaintsnce with both of these distinguished
men, leads one to admire and to love them
for their sincerity, frankness and honorable
bearing. Both have been often tried in civil
and military stations, and ever found honest,
faithful and competent Their patriotism has
been exempliied and illustrated by their gal
liant services in the war with Mexico, as well
as in the unfortunate civil war in which our
country has been embroiled by fanatics and
bigots. We can only he extrcated from oul
present complicated difficulties by wise, pru-
dent and discreet heads. 1t is an easy mat
ter to kindle the fire, but hard to extingui,h
he fame, once it bursts out in all its fury
RadicaliSm can destroy, but Conservatism
must build mp. Tie fool and tie mailman
make the fght-the wise man terminates it
National as well as individual prosperity i,
only attained in sine OF peace. Had the true
principles oil the Constitution been regarded
the country would not have been involved in
the present horrid and unnatural war, and
whenever men come to regard that sacred
instrument, it will be brought to a close. The
Union exists only by the Constitution. Il
can only be maintained by faithful adher.
ence to the Constitution.
The Constitutional Union ticket at the
head Of your columns, if elected, would surely
right matters and bring order out Of chaos
But here some one is heard to doubt of its
success. Ny paper is now too nearly ex-
hausted, or would demonstrate in this COM
munication that it can be elected.
To be successful it is necessary that good
men combine All elements in opposition to
the destructives must be fused and united
ID my next will show that this, so necss-