Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-10-17
Talk to Kentucky
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General Brisbin recently attends
ed a meeting Of freedmen in Ken
tucky, and talked to them in a man
nor that was well adapted to the ca
pacity of his auditors. lie said,
among other things: il Ht
"Now ! do not know what else
you could read with SO much ad-
to yourselves as a newspa-
per. Every family should take one
and pay for it. The long winter
evenings are coming ON, and, as
you sit by your tiresides, you will
need something to keep thinking
about. If you can't read your
selves, get the children to read for
you, or a neighbor will come in
nd reid, and the discussion over
what YOU hear will pass the dreary
nights pleasantly away. What is a
news paper? 1t is a book contain
ing every sort Of information---a
hive, with every kind Of honey ini it.
Every paper is worth ten times
what it costs to buy it. and ! doubt
If any money which father spends
is SO well invested as that which he
puts into a good family newspaper.
| have in my pocket a paper for
which paid to-day only five cents
-one- third the price Of a glass of
bad rum you black men buy too
often. Let US see what this paper
contains. First, we have the news
from Washington; then kilograms
from all parts Of Ohio, where they
are discussing the sufarge question,
and where an eloquent man Of your
own color from this city is now on
the stump. Next we have news
from every state in the Union, and
all about what went on yesterday in
Europe. Here il lot Of conun-
drums, jokes, anecdotes, and q let
ter from the funny man, Nasby.-
Now we have a pretty story about a
king, a tale Of o miser whoelived in
rags and horded his gold and then
we read an account of one of the
great battles Of the war. Here is q
speach made by q eolored man in
Tennessee, letters from Gen. Butler,
Charles Summer, the presidents
proclamation, speech by Senator
Wade, how to raise chickens, pota-
taes, corn and all kinds of yegeta,
bles the price Of everything we
eat, drink or wear in Cincinnati all
about the murder over in Danyille,
and the races last week here, which
IL would cost you five dollars to
have gone to see. Then we read q
story of a good boy, a fairy tale for
children, something about the Indi-
ans, q battle in South America, o
history Of Mckee, and all this on
two pages Of the paper, and there
are eight IN it; all this and fonT
times as much for five cents, The
grocery man at this corner will
give me a cent for the paper when
/ have read it, and then ! shall
have had all this information fol
the paltry sum Of four cents. Books
are very useful, and have nothing
to say against them; but they are
so dear a few only are able to buy
them. We are all, however, riclI
enough to buy u paper, at least oc'
casionalIy. There are over Il thou
sand members in the colored socie-
ties in this city, and not . single
reading-room among them.
Presently Congresses will be in
session, and then you will want to
know what goes on, especially
when they take up the suffrage
question for Kentucky. ] advise
yon at once to establish reading
rooms, and detail from your socic,
ties readers who will 90 there every
evening and read aloud for two o.
three hours, so that all who cannot
read can come there and hear the
news. AS many OF you as car
read, or have children who can
should take a paper, and have i
read in the family every night, i
viii keep you at home, it will pos
you up, and teach you and the chill
! ,lren to read we'll; and it will iurn
ish rest and food for the minds 0
you who have TO labor Nll day long
with your hands,"