{"newspaper_name": "The Southern journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
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Go INTO one Of our civic printing offices,
from which is daily leading forth the
bright impress Of the editorial mind in
characters that shall never fade or die. Be.
hold the swift winged mercuries of the
press visiting every temple of science,
every edifcc from which knowledge cen
lmpart its stores, gathering il together and
sending it forth anon TO the thousands Of
minds in each Of which it is immortal.
There IS more 10 as,onish the mind itself
much more, in one of these printing off,
ces, than in the catacombs of Egypt, the
sable magi of the east, the sages of anti
qui'y, or the hidden oracles of Delphi :
these morning and these evening sheets,
going forth abroad into the world, assimi-
'atlng mind with mind, end making man
the neighbor of his fellow man in spite of
distance, mountains or intervening seas.
Here, then, in the cart preserva,ivc Of all
arts" do we find the gem, the element.
the living material, Of early history and
the triumph Of mind over matter.


God was the first printer. He gave from
his awful hand, amid the thunder and
b'acllness Of Sinai the tablets of stone. on
which was printed the mind Of God. The
dcca'ogue Of all the moral law, the claim,
ol man upon man, aud of God upon all.


Printing is the art tha, shall go down 10
latest years, to remo,est posteri,y, to in
Vulnerable millions yet unborn of God. the
thoughts OF men who are living now: Of
men who lived centuries since: thew defy
time. and the printed inscript of these men
shall live. too full of soul 10 be put into
The grave with the perisbable bodies. Ii
was bright thought of that author, who
in his dying moments was just able to ask
it the proofs Of his last works we're correc.
fed-''all correctcd?" "Yes. all" .sThen
shall have complete edition in glory =,


[ J. ". lIagiu.