Image 3 of Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector (Liberty, Miss.), September 22, 1838
1 I Tiifl xewspafes raras To tbo sheet of paper which you see on your tables served to you so regularly and studied by you with so much ease the four quarters of the globe colitributo all the treasures 01 tneir intelligence isone mn valuable to mankind discovered by some scholar in the farthest ends of tho earth Ten to one but you will see it first announ ced in ft parigtuph of your newspaper Is there any abuse in your laws it is the newspaper press that drags it trday Is there any invention that will augment your comforts or sharpen your industry it is in the newspaper that it becomes familiar to you nil The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization the common reservoir into which every 6treatn pours its living wa ters and at which every man may come ta drink It is the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life its constant ob servation its perpetual vigilance its unre axing activity Tho newspaper is a dai ly and a sleepless watchman that reports to you every danger which menaces the institutions of your country and its inter ests at home and abroad The newspaper informs