Butts County GaArchives News.....SALUTATION December 7, 1893
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The Argus December 7, 1893
FELLOW CITIZENS;- About a year since I connected myself with this paper as 
associate editor, and I am so grateful to the good people for their warm and 
cordial reception of one so poorly qualified for the work I hav tried to do, 
but now I feel the respnsibility doubly, as I assume to fill the chair recently 
vacated by my senior's resignation whoe trained mind and hand has guided over 
many a shoaly place in the last few years and whose name is a household word in 
every home in our county, my friend and brother D.J. Thaxton. 

 Although I have been connected in one ay or another for fifteen years, with 
the press of the state, I assure you that I can hardly reach my ideal of the 
paper, I think, our town and county should have, and I shall fall far short of 
the expectations of those I am trying to serve.  Therefore, permit me to ask an 
inteligent public to generously spread the mantle of charity over my blunders 
and pass my imperfections briefly by, promising you that they will be, to a 
degree, mdified by an honest effort of one, however much mistaken, certainly 
means right and whose zal for God and our common country knows no bounds, and 
for whose vindication, peace and progress I would lay me down and die.  
Notwithstanding this fervency, I fear the didactic fundtions of the paper would 
be a failure to for the coefficiency of mr. J.G. McDonald whose versatile pen 
has more than once reached the climax and whose name as coeditor and manager 
will guarantee a neat mechanical department, for he is acknowledged by all to 
be the best printer that ever located in Jackson and he has few peers in the 
state.

The moral standing of the paper shall be sufficiently high that no parent need 
fear contaminating influences by admiting it into their homes and firesides, 
for no obscene languag shall mar the columns of the old reliable Argus.

A genuine republic is a government under whose lawas a man can do as he pleases 
with his own provided he doesn't interfere with the rights of others.  
Paternalism personified in the republican idea tends to thwart all personal 
liberty and develop a nation of lupes and cowards.  Special privileges, or 
protection to none, personified by the democratic idea tends to develop a 
nation of heroes and states men who will bow the knee to none save God, and 
will defent the land of the free and the homes of the brave against every 
encroaching foe, and I, is common with the majority of the people of the United 
States and especially of this agricultural south favor and work to promote 
democracy and its attendant blessings.

In conclusion, reader, may I ask a favorable consideration by you of one whole 
only crime against society is being poor, and who desires a heiue (sp) among 
you for

               You may sing of these or write of those,
                    But the town I love the best
                   Is proven by the home I chose
                    On Jackson's peaceful breast.

Yours for work,
N.J. Harmon

Additional Comments:
This was an editorial written by my great-grandfather.  As you can see, he is 
rather windy, but extremely educated.  I am still attempting to find out where 
his education was obtained.  He also taught at the first school in the 
community at the County Line Baptist Church in Jenkinsburg from 1886 -1888.

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