The southern press., 1851-04-02
WEDNESDAY, APRIL q, 1851.

For some time after this paper commenced,
we read rather frequently in Southern submis-
sion papers, that its editors were luxuriating on
lucrative salaries, at the expense Of the South.
We were told of large funds provided by its
founders and friends for its support, and some
times members Of Congress had the credit or
the odium Of munifcent contributions to its
Golfers.
When these suggestions were made in a
manner sufficiently reputable to entitle them to
notice, We stated that they were utterly un-
founded: and that this paper had neither re-
ceivsd any thing, nor the promise of any thing
from any body, except its subscribers and ad :
vertisers; and that in no case had extra num-
bers been taken by any person, except in two or
three cases. and they, altogether, not amounting
to dozen papers beyond their own individual
subscriptions.
Still the story was repeated, until, more
lately, the senior editor and proprietor stated,
that go far from receiving good pay, or any pay,
he had advanced his own funds to the paper.
Thereupon the order ofattack has been changed,
and we find in recent papers such specimens as
the following:
DoN'r PAY.-The Washington Southern Press
announces that it has not yet become paying
concern.
Whenever patriotism does not reach the pay
ing point, it is evidently not in earnest. 1t was
only when our forefathers were willing to make
pecuniary sacrifices, that the ball Of the revolu-
ton fairly began to roll. And it is with parties
az with nations. When party places very
high value upon its principles, it will put its
hands in its pockets, take out " the hard" and
hand it over to its printer. Mere promises Of
support to press are broken as often and as
remorseIessly as promises Of marriage. When
politicians catch young printer, they will, in
the language Of an enthusiastic son OF Gaul,
promise him anything" They will ensure him
ten thousand subscribers in one month from
date. and they make that declaration with an en-
phasis of tone, look and gesture, which would
impose upon all but veterans of the craft. But,
if YOU would test their sincerity and devotion to
their cause, YOU have only to ask them to de-
posite the promised amount in bank, and to place
in your hands check for the same! That
touchstone cannot fail, and we recommend it to
all men who nre solicited to set up newspapers,
but are scarcely able to advocate their political
principles at their own expense.
"A
editors are rather too old birds to be caught in
such traps, supposing they were set for them.
But the fact which they announce, that their
paper don't pay, is ominous. If the cause they
advocate were as popular in the South as they
allege, it could not but pay, for the Southern
people are generous, just, and able to sustain
their organ. And they would do 80 with a
hearty good WILL if that organ represented their
sentiments and their position upon those ques-
tons and measures to which its columns are
principally devoted. Richmond Republican.
THE SOUTHERN Press BEGGING.-The fol-
lowing extracts from two Columbia IS. CO. cor
respondents of the Greenville Patriot, will be
read with infinite pleasure by every true patriot
in the South. No man who values liberty the
Constitution, and Union, will regret to hear Of
the waning conditions of this reasonable sheet,
or fail to rejoice over its early dissolution:
"De Leon, one Of the editors Of the South
ern Press, is here, begging for funds to support
its tottering existence. ! understand that he
saws, if g., 500 is not raised at once it must 60
down. Well, the sooner the better, and so per-
ish every attemptt to dissever our blood cemented
and glorious confederacy Do publish the pro-
ceedings of the Union celebration of Washing
tons birthday"
.The Southern Press, the great disunion or
gan at Washington, was going about the streets
Of Columbia few days ago. begging money to
keep it aAoat. De Leon was here himself,
with circular from our delegation in Congress,
petitonng earnestly for charity, to save and pay
the fidders! $4,000 was bonowed-and then
and then, committees were appointed for each
ward, to raise that amount that the dsinterested
backers might not suffer any "detriment.' Mark
We. Be not surprised if the cry is heard from
I'll -, a1, oli haya nd
catch all we can" every man for himself, and
the devil catch the hindmost." Good pay and
Saratoga--or, we quit the concern" - Chron-
icle and Sentinel Augusta, Ga.
This is also copied, edtorially, by the Rich
mond Wing.
Now if the senior editor of this paper, in
being notified that he had been unanimously
selected for that place, had written to some
wealthy friend in the South that "none but a
bachelor could afford to assume the position,
and thereupon that friend had consulted his
brother capitalists, and they had united and con-
tributed fund of some forty or fifty thousand
dollars, not for The paper but for his domestic
expenses, We suppose the transaction would
have been considered "highly honorable to all
the parties concerned" And if any pitiful alb.
clifton editor or sub-missonist, had questioned
its propriety, as affecting our independence or
fidelity, we suppose the Richmond Wing, Rich
mond Republican, and journal and Messenger
would have found it as difficult to restrain their
indignation as they did when a similar transac-
ton with the Secretary of State, recently trans
pred and was called in nquestion by certain grow
elng souls. Yet, according to some very care
full and accurate economical experiments we
have made, it takes almost precisely the same
amount of funds to support metropolitan cdi.
tor and family here, as it does Secretary Of
State.
Or if the senior editor and proprietor of this
paper, after having contracted to furnish its sub
scribers for one year at the specified rates, had
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