H. L. Darr was a journalist in Charleston, South Carolina, who moved to Sumter to establish a weekly paper.
[1] Noah Graham Osteen (born January 25, 1843) joined the paper soon after.
Moses wrote columns and editorials calling for the development of industry in the South, criticizing "carpetbaggers", Northern missionaries helping establish Union Leagues, and Republican activities, especially Radical Republican, in Washington D.C.[1][4] The paper used the telegraph to get Associated Press stories on U.S. President Andrew Johnson's fight against the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and impeachment.
His son Hubert established The Item in Sumter.
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