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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1907 : October, v.7 : no.2]
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- Date
- October 1907
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1907 : October, v.7 : no.2]
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JOSEPH GALES, EDITOR OF RALEIGH’S FIRST
NEWSPAPER.
BY WILLIS G.
В
HIGGS.
•Joseph Galen, martyr to freedom of the press in England,
editor of Tin : llaleii/h It
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ter for thirty-four years, champion
of popular education, advocate of every measure for moral and
industrial development of the people: his political creed com¬
bined the liberty upheld by doil'erson with the progressive
national policies sustained by Adams, Webster and Olay and
placed him ever in advanee of his time.
This brief statement of fact is enough to justify our interest
iu the career of one who left, sm indelible impress for good
upon this community and State. Joseph Gales was bom
February 4, 17
(»
1 , in the village of Eckingtoit, Derbyshire,
England. Tlis great grandfather and his grandfather had
successively taught the village school and were men of the
model immortalized iu Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.”
The father, Thomas Gales, who lived to an advanced age.
was likewise described as “an Israelite in whom there was no
guile.”
Joseph Gales was the eldest son, an unenviable position in
a crowded humble household. As a child he attended school
and was proud to occupy a place at his father's side in the
village choir. ITe never lost his fondness for music and in
his latter years was wont to credit this early passion as one
of the most salutary influences in his life. When a lad of
thirteen he was bound to a man in Manchester for seven years
to learn bookbinding and printing. This was a common
practice even at. a much later period until it. was superseded
by the apprentice system of today. The youth was grossly
abused in the Manchester household and finally determined
to make his escape. With only half a crown in his pocket
he trudged fifty miles back to his native village. Many
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