The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-10-09

candidate t0r Clerk 81 the Fr0llate and Grim
inal Courts Of jefferson county.
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GIVE have 70 apologize 70 our readers
Tor the non appearance Of our paper on the
usual day,-owing 70 unavoidable circun,-
ExPuEelNo.-Arcording 10 the rules adop-
ted by us, in common with The newspaper
press Of the State, We erased from our
subscription list on the lst inst. the Games Of
a considerable number Of subscribers, who
have been receiving ihe paper for : consid-
cradle length Of time-some Of them for
three OF four years-w without having said
the first dollar. Their accounts win Sc put
in the hands Of officers 10 be collected with
as little delay ~ possible. We have been
compelled to adopt this course in se]fde-
fence-for without the adoption Of q non
credit system, It will be utterly impossible
for country papers to sustain themselves in
the present state Of affairs in Mississippi,
without serious pecuniary loss, which very
few are able to bear. To the far larger
portion Of our friends, who have promptly
discharged their Indebtedness 10 NJ, We re-
turn sincere thanks and we hope those
whom we have INDUCED will Immediately
liquidafc their obligations.
We eat not the bread Of the hireling --rlo
"poney purse" ever has been or shall be
raised for our bcnefit-none Of the fitness
Of official patronage that drops richly on the
advocates Of the "Spoils Party" ever falls
4 upon us. We have never offered ourselves
for sale at foul political mart, to be pur-
chased as slave to do the dirty work ol
party aspirants, aud become the trnducer
Of private character, and the invader Of the
domestic circle, for tte sake Of gain. We
LOBBY not the beck Of any man or set Of men.
but follow the guidings Of the uncrring light
Iof truth end reason.
j We are now, and ever have been, frsan
the earliest period Of our instruction in the
school Of politics, strongly opposed to the
principles and measures Of the present do
minant party. We belong to that party,
which in the .stimes that tried mems souls, 3
was known by the name Of Democratic, and
which now under the style Of Wing is striv-
ling against innovations and curruptions more
dangerous and destructive to tho existence
and perpetuity Of liberty, than were the
exactions and expressions which induced
our fathers to take up arms against Britain.
and pour out their hearfs' warm blood on the
ensanguined field Of battle. We thank oul
God that in LIES early years our education
was committed to those whose political sen
timents were decidedly Wing, and whose
untiring energies have always been exerted
] in the cause Of the people 10 taeir mighty
struggle against the fearful usurpations and
currupsions of the Executive. We are an
comparatively Wing we would not aban.
don the principles Of that party for the sake
Of all the Issues Of all 1.-The shinplaster Bank,
that have beer created BY the leco-6oco Le.
1 g,slatures Of Mississippi, and which are
now being profusely used with the view d
buying men, votess &c. Il any person.
havo been thus traitorous, No rcInice iha1
they have gone o.. from among ~, for they
never had ssthe root Of tie natter inihem
i and in the hour of 1heir eoaanfrvsa n,oef IN