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The Newberr of Six The Veteran Editor ant. P Wielded the Pen of the A Fifty Years, Tells Inti of Early Time In Old v pstiisr: pt?' -. ' ' V WM?ll| !': S il J HUGH WILSON, Fifty Years Editor .\ Time a Printer in Newberry on * Abbeville, S. C... Oct. 29th, 1915. Col. E. H. Aull, Editor Herald and Xews, Newberry, S. U. Dear Sir: I notice with pleasure your intention' to print the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Herald and News. The historical facts which you express determination to publish will make exceedingly interesting reading. I think, too, that -you would add interest to that publication if you went further back than I860 in the printing business. t ~ 0 J i was a. pxiuin m tut; xkisiug cm:i office during the year 1S54> My testimony would be to the effect that Mr. Poi I _ ?I I W-MX/ 'V v >&$ ::>>; * .>. \< #Si: ' " ;1> ' (>S|m v. . ' . *> ' * ** ;:y : *>; x^vtv^:-v- :$>>:*> 'v'S:fife' : > }y$' > ' i! > ivi: ; " * *. : v' - vx-;/ . v A . : : :C=t.: Most m ling cotton a cotton, buy i / y Press ty Years Ago nriter, riugti Wilson, Who ibb viV.e Pre end Banner zresting R crni -1 is cences Newspaye - Life sTeuberry, ' ' ^^ *^v*tf$Kgwff$ IIIIH jjiH n n H ' j , d o.> ' . ' ' . . o. riiie Prf-ss d Manner, at One * /he K!sin:r -Sun/* hcs. F. Greneker was publisher of the ifrairi that .rear, and that James H. riles had been eciitor of the paper for ears before Mr. Gereneker became rinter of The Herald. My impression is that Thos. P. Slider a: d James M. Orosson were editors of the Newberry Sentinel. They failed in business and the paper was susi. ended; later, the same men started :he Ris.'nj S', :i under.the firm name o? "-"nc- <?- Cros-on. I think no part of an anniversary issue could be made' more interesting I 'lan a tulJ and ccirect account of the y'.T*'"n?r vi-si* p*ss n ^cwherrv. I enclose so::.e no-es of my recollec :.V"'::v:.x vx ; .J'.'W:; ;.;, v m\. .... :'i\< ' .'.'vA s < ' . < j '<** +..s, MSMMfflWaBM :? : . . >. wS&StwtfSAja ' V *%\??5K^'<V : " ^%25Ks' ' < : j --X ,^ \ . f ' SJfaSf- t " - 'V... v \ >:;../:::;:v::x! ' '' V'X:::*;;-x^'-';'':-' ;v;:::.'_ v.v:J::-;.: : X:../^_'> ' ' ' '. - _ odern ginnery plan nd gins that get ah i m ^ ;our seed at l op i\ A. cions of Newberry in 1856. In 1806 1 went from Laurens to Newberry on Washington's birthday to help nrint tho Ricintr Suri r;ip nilhlifiatin-n Of which newspaper was commenced during the firet week in March of 1S56. It was owned and edited by Thos. P. Slider and James M. Crosson, the former being the capitalist. A few years later Mr. Slider moved to At-! lanta, Ga.( and died there. Lvir. Crosson moved to Texas, where he soon became a judge in one of the courts of that state. Whether it was better to have - A /%*? tn h j WQ Q died ILL AHituia ui tv/ imn. uvtuun, ? judge in Texas I leave for others io say. ; During 1856 I boarded in the home of Col. James M. Crosson. one of the editors of the Rising Sun, who had. on occasion, a free and easy way of ex! Dressing himself, and sometimes his expressions bordered on to the suggestion uf unutterable things. On one occasion while at tne dining table. Mr.?. Crcsscn, in my presence, delivered to ! him a lecture which I have regarded i fcarefuliy for half a century of life as i r>.,hiwhpj- and editor. In her protest at the language of some of Col. 'Crosscn'i editorials, or news items, among other things, she said something like this: "Profanity under certain provoking circumstances might be pardoned o"r excused, but there could be no provocation. and there could be no excuse I or aprdon for valgarity. In the heat cf passion profanity gives relief and therefore had some plea for excuse, but vulgarity was deliberate and coldblooded, and for which language no excuse could be urged." Whatever I might have done other- ' wise I do not know, but Mrs. Crosson's lecture has ever been present in my I mind and has governed my work as an editor and writer. During the fifty ; years of my connection with the Press and Banner, I never, knowingly, print- , ed in the paper, nor in a job, a single word of vulgarity, and I never knowingly published a word for the purpose i of suggesting unutterable things. Mrs. j Crosson was an adopted daughter of j Judge John Belcon O'Neal 1 of New- j berry, and a fine type of woman she j was. She crossed the river from Texas, but did not go to Mexico. She is no no doubt now wearing a starry crown in the city of pearly gates and golden streets. In 1S56, on Sunday while in Newberry, I attended Sunday school and rflisnnus ?^rvice in the A. R. 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