The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-07-18
TO THE PUBLIC.

seefy.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The rights Of editors and publishers Of
|. 4pers have been too long neglected. JUS
ice will never be done unless themselves
assert their rights and enforce the most rigid
rules, which in the end will be found alike
ealutary to the public and beneficial to those
engaged in the press. Publishers of papers
have been SO long imposed upon by the COM
munity at large, that they are considered to
some extent degraded class of beings,
when in fact there is no vocation in life SO
honorable, deserving of so high considera-
tion, productive of so much good, a class
that exerts SO powerful an influence 1t is
known to be proverbial for the debtors to
newspaper publishers to consider their de-
mands as the last to be paid-debts to which
there is attached no moral obligation and
which they can refuse to pay with justice
Ind honor: hence it is incumbet theon the
conductors OF the press to assert their own
rights and resolve, severaily and jointly, to
bring all patrons of newspapers under the
same obligations that attach to other con-
tracts, or always remain in poverty and
want, with thousands due them from the |
most solvent men in the country.
We call upon all editors and publishers of
papers who approve of the following rules
to endorse them by their signatures-place
them at the head of their papers and strictly
adhere TO them.
LIST. No subscription received without
payment IN adrance.
2nd. No subscription received for less
than six months.
Bird. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.
4th. To announce no man for any office,
either State or County, without the 0drance
payment Of ten dollars.
9Th. Political circulars charged as adyer-
tisements, and payment in aduance.
9Th. All advertisements of personal al
fercation will be charged double, and pay
ment required in advance.
7th. Election tickets will not be printed
without order, nor delivered to any person
without payment.
8th All subscribers, without respect to
persons, who are delinquents, on the first of
October, will be stricken from the list and
their accounts put in suit.
The above rules, we the undersigned.
pledge ourselves to abide by.
JAMES A STEVENS,
e Editor of the Yazoo Wing.
JAMES IIAGAN,
Editor Of the Vicksburg Sentinel
8. II. B. BLACK,
Editor of the Natchez Courier.
BESANCON g. HALLIDAY,
Publishers ofthe Mississippi Free Trader
THOMAS BROWN,
Editor of the Rodney Telegraph
J. M. DUFFIELD.
Editor of the Grand Gulf Wing
VIM. M. SMYTH,
Editor of the Grand Gulf Advertiser
VIM. B. TEBO,
s Editor of the Fayehe Advertiser
A. b. s. s. L. CORWlNE.
Publishers Of the Yazoo Banner
ARCH. s. CLARKE,
Publisher of the Port Gibson Correspondent
P. B. BARKER,
Editor of the Southern Argus
M. MOWER,
Publisher of the Southern Sentine
GEORGE A. WILSON,
Editor OF the Holly Springs Banner
DR.. Hagan Of the Vicksburg Sentinel
opposed to the extension Of grace provide
for IN the 6th rule, and says he does not il
tend to wait till the 1st Of October to put
in practice. All subscribers to the Sent
mel 10 Mississippi, who do not pay up by Ii
LIST Of August, will be stricken from tn
list.
The Port Gibson Correspondent tax,
exception to the Sth rule only, and maxi
the first of April, $40, the time.
John b. Coleman
TTAS resumed the practice Of La'
Office in Port Gibson, next door
the Branch of the Planters Bank,
April 10, 1889 tf49
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