Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1840-02-22
10 the Public.


THNHE rights Of The editors and publish
\ ers ofpapers have been so long neg
lected. Justice win never be done I'm.
Jess themselves assert their rights anc
enforce the most rigid rules, which in the
end will be found alike saIutary to the pu.
HE and beneficial to those engaged in the
press. Publishers ofpapers have been SO
long imposed upon by the community at
large. that they are considered to some
extent degraded class Of beings, when
an Fact there is no vocation in life so hon
scrable, deserving ofso high consideration,
productive Of SO much good. class that
exerts so powerful an influence. II ia
known to be proyerbial for the debtors to
newspaper publishers to consider their de-
snands as the last to be raid--debts to
which there is attached no moral obliga-
ton, and which they can refuse to pay
with justice and honor; hence il is incum-
Dent upon the conductors Of the press to
assert their own rights, and resolve, sew
orally and jointly, to bring all patrons Of
newspapers under the same obligations
that attach to lother contracts, or always
remain in pov9rty and want, with thous-
ands due theHh from the most solvent men
in The country
= We call UPON all editors ard publishers
Of ppers jwho approve Of the following
rule ehdorse them by their signatures
- lice Aem at the head Of their papers,
an stri| lily adhere TO them.
lst. 10 Subscription received without
paymeht in adrGnce.
ID. lNo subscription received for less
isan fsix months.
Sds Advance payment will be required
from IN transient advertisers
4h. To announce no man for any Office
either state or county, without the adj
yaden paymeRt Of ten dollars.
fh Political circulars charged as adj
yertisements ana payment required in
aapancc.
9Th. All advertisements OF personal
altercatlon will be charged double, and
payment reqairedin advance.
18th. Election tickets will not be print
edwithout order, nor delivered to any per-
son without payment.
9Th. All subscribers, without respect to
persons, who are delinquents on the LIST 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.
The above has been signed by nearly
all the editors and publishers in the state,
and we hesitate not to say, will be enfor-
cedrigidly.
We did not sign the arutes" sooner, but
experience has taught us that we should
have done so. The LIST Of October was
the time fixed on, and our year ends not
till February, after which we shall be 60
verned by them; for, we are convinced,
nothing else will do
TOTHILL g. EISELY,
Publishers Of the Piney Woods Planter.
The subjoined, from the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, expresses our sentiments
on this subject:
MEANNESS.---Some newspapers are
eternallv harping on that foolish theme
ADO. good patrons, pay us our money, and
hermit Us to eat. Dear, kind, honest,
GOOD iiatured, benevolent, charitable pat
rous. paw your subscriptions; we cannot
get along without money; we know your
disposition to encourage the press; don't
forget your poor, slavish, beggarly print
er.S &c. &c. Now, as the SAYING is, the
world owes every man living; to obtain
1, he NAV work, beg, pick pockets, make
shinplasters, according TO the directions q
his taste and talents. But one OF these
branches OF business is enough; if he cho-
ses to work, let him work, and If ne pre-
fers begging, let him beg; but II Is curious
indeed If a man must work and beg, botn.
The pitiful tone Of supplication used by
certain papers, confesses want Of worm;
thew appeal to the wrong Principle--they.
address themselves to the compassion OF
their subscribers, when theyhave demands
on theiriustice. Ifthey ask payment ior
an equivalent, rendered, let them speak;
ont like men. and not whimper, whine ana
s,e like mendicants. If they ask Tor mo,
new, when they have no claims founded
in law and Justice, they are beggars IN
fact, and may act accordingly. of THIS
we are certain, that any business wn'cll
needs mustbe eked out with beggSfy' Is
NOT worth following; and five have 2 cor
roct view Of the subject, hoeIng potatoes
cleaning sinks, or any other kind q nom
81 smpioyment, is much more resPecta-
Ne thaa lhas '.pxy me for tae sake q sSa-
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