Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-10-11
Payment of Debts.

:. Payment Of Debts.
Those in arrears to this office (and thei
name is zgion) will perceive that we are fore
ed to ialicise a paragraph at the head of tn
adjoining column. We are sorry to do So
we are always sorry to be forced to an impera
tire course, a course which admits of no vari
ance; necessity has no law, and Of two evil
we always choose the least. People must have
their dues; and in getting them from Us, VIZ
in turn must have ours; for we have no no
ton of sacrificing our interests for the inter
ests of others. We are willing to be az clever
and as obliging as any man but there are Ii
mits to generous impulses, (f not for ones sell
at least for others,) as we'll as there are limits
to the credit system in a country printing Of
fee. Those limits have arrived with US. Many
a poor devil of an editor has martyr-like sank
into the mire of pecuniary oblivion, while his
assets more than doubled his liabilities. We
must Gandid|y but respectfully acknowledge
that we have no such ambition to perpetuate
our name for the intellectual glory Of the pre-
sent generation! And, besides the necessity
of the paragraph alluded to, we have this to
add--that, in consequence of the line OF duty
we have marked for our future course, we will
have no time to attend to outdoor business;
the collection of dues will be left to another
person, and he has but one order respecting
them. We may, however, in a few days, make
in person a last crusade for right and indepen-
dence.
The payment of debts is a moral obligation
binding upon every citizen, and not only to
pay them, but to pay them punctually and
certainly no description of business requires
greater punctuality in this respect, for the sake
of its very existence, than that Of publishing
a newspaper, and particularly a country paper.
In such business custom has made everything
on credit, against reason and even against lau,
for the law distinctly says that costs of suits
shall be paid in advance, Or to that effect. With
subscribers, not one in a hundred ever think of
paying for their paper in advance, and it is a
rule indispensable to our business, for cash
must be paid for everything connected with
the weekly issue Ct a paper. Advertisers, and
those who have job work done, are equally re-
miss, never dreaming of paying when the work
is done, with but very rare exceptions-and
many Of each never paying at all. These re-
marks are applicable to every section of this
country, and we are sorry that the necessity of
inditing them falls upon our shoulders.
The merchant, the grocer, the tailor, the
shoemaker, coffee-houses, pedlars and thinkers
all descriptions of business-take in some
cash for work done or wares sold, by which
they are enabled at least to get their daily
bread, and meet other little expenses which
may accrue through the week, by which to-
support their establishments. But even this
the printer does not get. The only profes-
sions which have the misfortune to resemble
his in the least, are those of the lawyer and
the physician. They certainly work on credit.
But people find it very convenient to keep on
The bright side Of these conference.-the the
class is ever ready to wrangle them out
Of their property, the second holds the tenure
Of their existence in his pill box! They are,
we admit, justly ornaments to our
nation, and in no community do they stand de-
higher than in this. Like the butcher
md the magistrate, they are necessary to the
salvation and elevation of society,"
But the unlucky publisher! Whose indiyidu-
welfare fears his uprisings or downfaIlings?
Everybody knows, too, that his is a slippery
business; and reducing argument to a few
words, he is watched likea theft the dark, and I
f he don't walk a tri-colored Decline, and be
perfect model Of morality, integrity and vir- |
ne, .he's a used up man." q d
Now, the sum total of the above article is a
ust this-we are in want Of money, want it c
the purpose of investing it in the payment II
. debts; we are satisfied, from past expert v
nee, that such stock not only apays we'll" but t
does more, it keeps you free from ~constan. q
les and attorneys, from dissipation and the v
from clouded brows and bitter feelings Z
brings peaceful slumbers, a tranquil bosom, Q
happy home, and thoughts Of bliss in a world y
come! Who would refuse to make.such an, .
lyestment? avs
COMMERCIAL CALLENDAR.-We are under OBJ a
cations to J. B. STEEL, New Orleans, for a copy q
f his Commercial Calendar, for 1S51-52. 1t is a n
cry necessary and important reference for the e
Sc Of the Counting Room, and no business man G
Mould he without II :,