Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-10-19
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Gazette has been regular weekly Visi
tant to the firesides Of the people of this
county. To many homes it has com,
50 often and been so kindly welcomed
as to claim without assurance the right
Of recognition as one Of The Jt1nsily.-
Through storm nd sun, through peac,
and war, through joy and sorrow, i
has presented itself each week at theil
doors, bringing news Of the great
worlds doings, sometimes good and
sometimes had, but always mixed witt
kindness and good will. over many 8
hearth stone it has year after year wit
messed, or seemed to witness the shadow
and the sun light fit to and fro until in
sort of friendly sympathy it seemed q
weeper with those that wept and re
joicer with those that reIoiced. Will
many a life it has kept company
through all weathers from rosy youth
to sober manhood and even beyond
the meridian. In short tho Gazette is
almost as much part Of this county as
its people, its towns, its forests or its
fields. 1t has become one OF its institu-
lions. representing its interests, reflect
ing its enterprise and identified with
its growth and destiny.
To any public journal, but especially
one bearing such a relation to the peo-
pie, It is essential to keep pace in i'm
provement with the community that
sustains It. It should be the mirror in
which that community beholds itself
reHeeted-tht page where It reads its
own biography. It is therefore with
great satisfaction that we are enabled
to present the Gazette 10 its patrons to-
day IN an enlarged form. 1t is now the
largest ever published in this county,
and, excepting the Cincinnati papers,
one Of the largest in the State. Our a.
bility to publish such a paper depends
entirely upon the support we receive,
and we sincerely trust that the people
of the county may ever hence forward
be able to boast that they sustain the
largest and best local paper in Ohio
We k750ag they can do so if they viii
give us the patronage we shall aim
to deserve. But our friends viii please
bear this in mind, that patronage i'm
plies something more than good agilL.--
To carry. on a newspaper establishment
requires an enormous and constant out
lay of money. Both labor and materials
cost us cash, and at the highest rates ever
known. But in addition to this ordina-
ry expense we have incurred heavy
additional one in enlarging and improv-
ing the paper. We earnestly hope there
fore our patrons will favor us with
prompt payment. Having la bored for
your interests viii you not thus far
manifest an appreciation of our efforts?
The newspaper business, above almost
every sother, requires QlElck T-etJsT7ss.--
Without these it must languish. No eff
fort, nc. enterprise, no genius can avail
against that most abherrent of all vacu-
unls, the vacuum in a printers pocket
book. Il is a fatal blight which chiIls
lifes energies, and sends deadly palsy
through the blood. But we have too
much confidence in the public, upon
whose patriotism and enterprising
spirit we have cast the destinies Of the
Gazette to believe that such a fate can
ever .oyertake us. Each number of the
paper will hereafter contain a compre-
heBsiYe summary Of the news of the
week, State, general, and political, to-
gether with the best attainable select
ions on literary, agricultural and gener-
al topics. The paper will be a athOrough
political compendium, taking a general
scope over the whole field and reflect
ing the state Of the public mind in all
sections of the Union. 1t will be no
body's organ but the organ of the truth,
expressing original views on all sub
iects, and energetically advocating pro-
gressive ideas. He who would keep up
with the times nowadays must not let
the grass grow under his feet, and he
has but little of the true spirit of the age
who settles himself down Ito Econtent-
ment with all things as they are and
indifference to improvement Like
Rip VanWinkle, he will after while
awaken to find his own home grown IN
familiar and himselfR a stranger among
his own kindred. The world is tremen-
dously in earnest and is mooving for
ward with untiring swiftness. He only
can keep mp with it who keeps his mind
fixed upon the grand results rapidly
maturing in the womb of time and to-
ward which public opinion is inevita-
bly, tending. Our mission shall be tc
keep the people awake, to arouse them
from the dangerous sleep Of conserva-
tism, and that unmanly cowardice and
sloth which hesitate to reach forth and
struggle for the greatest good to all
Holding that it is better to perish a
once than be a ciplier, better to give up
life than its great purposes, and infn-
itely better to accelerate than to impede
the progress Of justice and truth, we
san
hope increased effectiveness, now labor
for that purpose with fearless and una
batting zeal.