The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-03-20
The Country Press.

The Country Press.
Thc-following truthful article is taken
from one of the ablest papers in the coun-
try:
Our duty is too often overlooked. Go
into half the houses of the country. and
there will be found New York neWspa-
pers, and Philadelphia magazines, and
foreign literature of every kind; while of
newspapers interested in advocating the
interests of the State and their own coun-
ty, not one can be found. This is grossly
unjust. If man has three dollars u
year, or ten cents Il week, to spend in in
formation and literature for Ills family;
his duty us citizen is to take his own
State and county paper. Let him imag:
inc, if he can, what his State would be
without paper within'her borders, and
then ask himself what he is doing for
their support.
But some excuse themselves for taking
metropolitan paper, on the ground that
they contain more reading matter than
those published at home. True enough
simply for the reason that they are sup
ported. Every dollar sent to a foreign
newspaper by citizen who takes no To-:
cal paper, builds up that foreign paper at
the expense, not Of his own local paper,
but of the interests of his own State and
county.
We do not ask this for tho local press
as matter of charity, but of justice. A
good paper can do more good for any
town, than any town can do for paper.
But few appreciate the local press as they
ought. They overlook the fact that its
conductors arc the most sclfsacrifcing
men in the country. From one years
end to another, they devote their talents
and their energies to the building up of
their localities, even to the neglect OF their
own pccuniary interests.
Yet the local press is snccrcd at, and
given the cold shoulder, forgetting that
the little pebble as necessary for making
the mountain. as the bolder or huge mass
of granite The local press holds as i'm
portant position as the rill docs to the
river which goes occanward. 1t is bad
policy to starve them to death. as it would
be for tho mouth of the stream to dam
up the fountains from which 1t obtains
it's supply. The interests of the city
press and the local press are identical,
and they should be fostcrcd alike, as each
has it's work to perform in its peculiar
province The conductors Of the country
press may sometimes err in judgments, or
fail to carry out their plans to the fullest
extent-but the metropolitan press is
open to the same charge. We repeat;
that it is the first duty Of every mana
duty that is impcrativc-to sustain his
local press with q liberal hand and not
let it lar guish for want of that support.
A RELIC OF TIE REvoLUTIoN.-We
have Just been shown beautiful miniature
of Washington, painted on ivory by Col.
John Trumbull the hero artist, who was
on the staff of Washington during the war
for Independence:
1t will be remembered that the Trumbull
pictures of Washington are much younger
than those of either Stuart or Peale, for
the very good reason that they were
painted more than twenty-five years car
lier, and this accounts tor the fact that
they are not much alike. The pictures of
Trumbull are not popular, but we see no
good reason why they should not be-
Washington was but forty years old when
he was in active service in the revolution,
and as John Trumbull was a good artist,
we have every reason to believe that his
portraits were accurate likenesscs His
original full length of Washington is now
in the Trnmbull gallery in Connecticut,
and the miniature of which we write is in
this city. 1t is on ivory, and when placed
under strong lens shows the most cNqui-
site treatment: We have never seen any
miniature more dclicatcly and artistically
touched. 1t is in full military costume
and wearing q blue sash. This is the only
picture in existence of Washington paint
ed with this appcndage. On several oc.
casions Washington wore blue sash in
compliment to the French officers who
composed part of the continental army
The miniature was painted and made a
present by Trumbull to one of the officers
who came over with Lafayette. 1t was
by him carried to France and presented to
one of the female members of his family.
II WAS finally brought back to this coun-'
try by some descendant of the French
f;lmlv, who settled in Boston, being I'M;
fortunately lilreuuceu circumstances, tncF
were induced to part with the miniature:
and it fell into the hands Of rich family
in that city.
Jared Sparks, the historian, had the pic
ture in his possession during the time he
was writing his life of Washington, and
it was also exhibited several times at the
Boston Athennum and the Historical So
cicty, but continued to remain in posses
sion of the same family, who have had itS
nearly sixty years, and it is now owned
by one of the descendants of the Boston
family, who resides in New York. We
should like to see the picture go into some