{{short description|Newspaper in South Carolina}} The '''''Sumter News''''' was a newspaper serving [[Sumter, South Carolina]]. It became the '''''True Southron''''' and eventually merged with ''The Watchman'' to form '''''The Watchman and Southron'''''.
==History== H. L. Darr was a journalist in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], who moved to Sumter to establish a weekly paper.<ref name=mose>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44uF943aw18C&dq=%22sumter+news%22+frank+moses&pg=PA50|title=Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction|first=Benjamin|last=Ginsberg|date=April 12, 2010|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801899164|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Noah Graham Osteen]] (born January 25, 1843) joined the paper soon after.<ref name="ost">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7EoUAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22sumter+news%22+darr&pg=PA48|title=History of South Carolina|first1=Yates|last1=Snowden|first2=Harry Gardner|last2=Cutler|date=June 8, 1920|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Frank Moses]] worked for it. It competed against the ''[[Sumter Watchman]]''.<ref name=mose/>
A conservative paper, it promoted [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politics and described itself as a white man's paper<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnyF8g4Jeh0C&dq=%22sumter+news%22+darr&pg=PA368|title=Geo. P. Rowell and Co.'s American Newspaper Directory|date=June 8, 1871|publisher=Geo. P. Rowell & Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> with an editorial header stating "This is a white man's country and must be ruled by white men". Moses wrote columns and editorials calling for the development of industry in the South, criticizing "[[carpetbagger]]s", Northern missionaries helping establish [[Union League]]s, and Republican activities, especially [[Radical Republican]], in Washington D.C.<ref name=mose/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33mJjBLDiM8C&dq=%22sumter+news%22+frank+moses&pg=PA124|title=Journal of the Civil War Era: Spring 2012 Issue|first=William A.|last=Blair|date=March 1, 2012|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=9780807852637|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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.<ref name=mose/> The paper was renamed the ''True Southron''. It eventually merged with the Watchman to become the ''Watchman and Southron''.<ref name="ost"/>
Osteen developed the business into a publishing company. His son Hubert established ''[[The Item]]'' in Sumter.
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