Piney Woods planter., 1839-12-21
TO the Public.

NNtiE rights Ol Inc editors and publish
n ers ofpnpcrs have been so long neg
lected. Justice will never be done IN
less themselves assert their rights ant
enforce the most rigid rules, which in III,
end will be found alike salutary to the pm
lie and beneficial to those engaged in thu
press. Publishers papers have been $,
long imposed upon by The community a
large. that they are considered TO some
extent n degraded class of beings, whcI
in fact there is no vocation in life 81 hon
orable, deserving of 81 high consideration
productive of so much good, class tha
exerts so powerful an influence. 1t il
known to be proycrbial for the debtors Il
newspaper publishers to consider their de
mands as the last to be paid--debts Il
which there is attached no moral obliga
ton, and which they can refuse to pay
with Justice and honor; hence il is ncum
bent upon the conductors of the press t.
assert their own rights, and resolve, sev.
orally and jointly, &c bring all patrons oI
newspapers under the same obligations
that attach TO other contracts, or always
remain in poverty and want, with thous-
ands due them from the most solvent men
in the country.
We call upon all editors ard publishers
of papers who approve of the following
rules, to endorse than by their signatures
place them at the head of their papers,
and strictly adhere to them.
list. No subscription received without
payment in aIccnce.
% NJ unoo;uaI cn~ L..
ahan six months.
3d. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
4th. To announce no man for any office
either state or county, without the ad-
fance payment often dollars.
5th. Political circulars charged as ad-
Ver,isements and payment required d"
adrarrc.
9th. All Advertisements of personal
alteration will be charged double, and
payment required in advance.
7th Election tickets will not be print
ed without order, nor delivered to any per
son without payment.
9th. All subscribers, without respect T.
persons, wh, are delinq1ents on the lst
October, will be stri. ken from the list and
their accounts put in suit.
The above rules, We, the undersigned.
pledge ourselves TO abide by.
The above has been signed by nearly
all the editors and publishers in the state,
and we hesitate not to say, will be enfor-
ced rigidly.
We did not sign the "rules" sooner, bur
experience has taught lis that we shoa''
haze done 50. The lst of October was
the time fixed on, md our year ends M
tiI FeAruar~, niier which we shall he 60
verned bv them; for. we are convinced,
nothing else viii do
TOTHILL e. EISELY,
Publishers Of the Piney Woods Planter.
The subloined, from the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, expresses our seh'lmen's
on this subject:
MEANNESS.--Some newspapers are
eternally harping on that foolish theme-7
500, good patrons, pay us our money! ana
permit us to eat. Dear, kind, honest;
good natnred, benevolent, charitable pat
Tons, pay your subscriptions; we cannot
get along without money; we know your
$ disposition to encourage the press: don't
forget your poor, slavish, beggarIv print
.er.- &c. &c. Now, as the saving is, the
world owes every man living; to obtain
II he NAV work, beg, pick pockets, make
sshnpIasters. according TO the directions OF
his taste and talents. But one OF these
branches of business is enough; It he cho-
ses 70 work. let him work, and II he pre-
gfcrs begging, let him beg; but i IS curlons
indeed. if man must work and beg pom {
The pit,lul tone of suppIication used by
certain napers, confesses want OF worm :
thew appeal to the wrong princIpIe--they. /
aJIrnss themselves to the COMPASSION OF
,be;r subscribers, when they have demands
IN their i,stice. Ifthey ask payment lot
~ ~ ecn;yalent rendered, let them speak
ont like mer, and not whImper' whIhe m anu ,
sne like mendicants. IT they ask .or NV
ney when they have no claims fo"ndeo
!, law and Justice, they are beggafs ~
caot and NAV act accordingly. ot TINS
~o % are cortain. that any business which :
~a.J A. ,nmst he sked out with beggary, is /
not worth following; and five have & ool
rect view of the subject, hoeiing Polsioes
cleaning SINKS, or any other k'no Oh ~"
eat employment, is much more resPec'"
bio than that s'pay me for the 'aks OF oHA
rsty" sySsm.