The Shasta Courier

The State Printer
In this, we have no desire to throw any unpleasant insinuations toward the present State Printer: for in Mr. Avery we recognize a gentleman in the most comprehensive sense of the term, and, so far as we have been able to ascertain, he has given universal satisfaction during his official term.—A change.
The foregoing, says the Mountain Messenger, is one of many specimens of pretended friendship, but indirect damning, which have recently been bestowed upon Mr. Avery, as not being a practical printer. Now, we are very happy to inform our kind and disinterested cotemporaries, who have undertaken the task of enlightening us as to what kind of a man should be State Printer, that Mr. Avery, the present incumbent of that office, is a practical printer, and served a thorough apprenticeship in his uncle's establishment, the office of the Harrisburg Keystone, at the time one of the leading Democratic journals of Pennsylvania. So in this case, all sympathy, founded on the belief that the gentleman was not a member of the craft, is supererogatory and appreciated at its value. We are certain that our present State Printer has done double the amount of manual labor, in a first-class printing office, and knows more about the trade than the 'black aphorn printers,' who are trying to hound him out of the position he has so successfully filled, with credit to himself and benefit to the State. And besides having learned and worked at the trade, Mr. Avery has proved himself one of the most successful publishers and editors in the State, in proof of which we refer to the San Juan Press of four years ago, (then the best country paper in the State,) and to the Marysville Appeal of to-day. With all honorable typos, and with due pride of calling, we hold that no one should be elected to the office of State Printer but a genuine member of the craft. As Mr. Avery not only fills this requirement, but has also proved himself a good business manager, and fulfilled his duties to the satisfaction of citizens of the State, besides being deservedly popular with all who know him, we believe he will be retained in his present position.