Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-10-01


parlson was excellent, except in the circum
stance that tie Senator and the trottiug.
mare-all the more to their credit be it said
were both Of scrub stock Two hun.
drcd and nine ycers ago, man was cast
into Bedford Jail in England for consistent
adherence TO his religious belief. He was
the son of tinker, and he inherited that
occupation himself His Imprisonment last
ed twelve years. He was poor, and the ne
cessties of large family OF small children,
one OF whom was blind, appealed unceas-
ingly to his iatherly tenderness, but he was
unwavering in his maintenance of the right
to express his religious convictions, and as
the crystalization Of his doctrine and adhe.
renee to opinion, issued to the world John
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress. 1t attracted
no attention among MachiavelI's highest
order Of society. The intermediate order
paid no heed to it. But the ignoble order,
the poor, the lowly, the despised, the ppress-
ney corner read and re-read it until its con-
tents were known to them by heart. Du-
ring the lifetime Of the author, and long af-
terwards, the only editions of it we're printed
on cheap paper, cheap engravings, and
! honnd in cheap notwithstanding the de-
nand Tor it was in the cottage rather than
in the castle. But at the end of hundred
years, the intermediate and superior orders
began to look into it, and quote from it, and
attempt to initiate it. and now after the lapse
Of another hundred years il is pronounced
by Thomas Burlington Macaulay, the no.
| blest Alegory in the language, and its au-
thor the equal OF John Milton.
TWAS part Of the great mission Of Print
ing aud OF the Press to prove the falsiiy Of
promulgatons lik. that just noticed, and to
teach the inalienable, iuieieasihle, hides
structible equality of the rights of all men,
in all times, and among all nations.
Up 10 the time OF the invention Of Print
ing the labor aud the expense Of the pro-
duc,Ios. OF Il book in manuscript, placed the
means of education beyond the reach Of the
masses Of the people. What little intell-
gence ey received, came through the ear
| rather than through the eve. Oral instruc-
tors were raised TO the dignity of oracles,
and civil rulers found it necessity to reach
the multitude through the medium Of the
pulpit. Through tins dependence of the
civil upon the ecclesiastical power, grew up
the alliance be.wced church and state. The
nossassi,n If n,lini,ed ro,rsr j., tho band.
ne few individuals ;s a nernetual ,em,,o.
,;ou ia ;ts .h,sc and that ), .,s sha,,.lns.
ly pictsdly barharonsIy abnsed thronrb
this dual alliance, the record Of government
al crimes atieSts. Before the first edition
OF John Fausls printed Bible WAS issued,
the ordinary cost of that book in Germany
was sixty crowrs per copy Keeping Sc
ere, the means NV which be had baen able
h, ur,a,,., IN, v-,lnna at a ,,ncb loso oos,
b.. raiell4d ,ho comes ont ano.r tbo MI
,o,',ti..> nn,;l ha b,J .,n,Loa ~ n.rl-e.
and lien be dronn.d down in nix demands
tram ,;v,v ~ ,ue,,tv crowns Ero,,, ,b,,
dn, onward tje monopoly Of knowIedoe in
,,,y ord, or class ,r sect uas hrorea fnr.
ever. Eyery new thouoht toward RELIGIOUS
ro,. y;c,ton eyarv,ew t,c, j., scientific rev
.l.,,,,, All, .y.rv ,,;so ,ox;, !, ,ha nro.
rr.ss..t r,yernment onc.. given b tho Wind ;
and he waves ana he I,L,,tiras of heaven
have been by the nr,ntiuc arf trnrs6xed'
and rer,4tuat.d for .,,nat;ons in al, cl;mes
and N all ares or The ;nanonce or bools
in The nros,ess or ;r,ell;aencc !, is M, for
u,,. here IN seeak hu, al The nower of the
p.r,odic,i pra.s IN III relat;ons IN Man IN
An bis iI.tp,es;s. il wouId he difficult IN form
an exsggproted Indictment. Rome. in tie
DAYS OF IT'S conourrors. had dally written Of.
hcal reports of public occurrences, answer
ing somewhat to the puruases of printed
Journals in these davs and England lust
preceding the invention of Printing. had
written neys.letters furnished to the wealthy
aristocracy. During the Turkish war Of
appearaoce in Venice. Rot the first nript.
ed uewspaner in England did no, make lis
appearance until about half a century after.
ward Nathaniel But,cr is ranutcd ,o have
been The father of the rernlar newsnaner
press in England. but his iouroal and 9th.
ers of his time published little else than for
.;on intelligence. not darino 10 touch uDon
snn; cts tt local noIit;cs mill sftar tho abo.
ti,;on of tbe Star Chamber in le1) Du.
ring that wear the first attemp, was made at
Parliamentary repor,ino but ,be renorts
were not published until more than a cen.
tury aiterward. The newsnaners claimed
the right to publish, but the two Iouses Of
p.rlinman, prohibited II and ,be contest
continued until l772, when the lawmakers.
although aided by the patronage and iuAu.
ence OF the crown, were badly defeated. aud
+ r the first time in the history of the gov
pr,meut The pcople of Great Britain were
urrmI,tel 10 study the proceedings Of ,be,r
National Legislature. and thus became the
b,t.r oQnuned 10 indae of public affairs
A m, mber ri Parchment Nv tho mama Of
drawers. showed his DISGUST at the new or.
der Of ,h,ugs in a speech Of which this was
a marion II be6rve the neonle of Grsat
Rr,ynn are Governed bv mower that never
was heard of assupreme authority in anv
aoe or country before. Thi bower sir.
does not consist in the absolute rule OF ,he
Prince. in The direction of Parliament. in
the strength of an armv, in the influence of
the CLERGY neither. sir. Is It n pet,icoat goy-
erpme,l; but, sir. il is the government of
the press. The stuff which our weekly news
papers are flied with, is received with great.
or reverence than acts Of Parliament and
NE sentiments of one of these scribblers
have more WEIGHT xith the muI,itua, than
The sentiments of the best politicians in the
Kingdom" Very soon after this. the pro-
o,ad;nrs If III. cour,s of law beuan to ha
.,,d,od h., III. nao,le ,bro,,ob r.nor,s tur.
,',sho,i he The da;ly nr.ss and .,bou, tho
| s,r,s ,;n.--o,lv on. hundred xears 400
,l.'r,, ,.as hol1 ,he a., nnLl;c ,nee,;,, 40,
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