Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-02-14
End of the Third Volume.

EMG OF the InIrQ VO1uMes
Three numbers more will complete the
third volume of the Freeman. Since we COM
menced its publication, we have had but
megre patronage; a support barely sufficient
to make both ends meet As a consequence
We have been compelled to labor at the case.
or in other words, we have had to do hands
share at sitting type, in ord er to insure the
regular issue of our paper, thereby being de-
prived of the time that should have been de-
voted to its editorial management. True,
most of our readers, who have said any thing
to US on the matter, have eexpressed themselvs
as satisfied with its management, but every
one, who is at all acquainted with the labers Of
a country editor, must know, that with his
multitudinous duties, il is next to impossible
to make more than readable paper. In ad-
dition TO setting type, we are compelled to
work of the paper, set up and print all job
work that may come in, write advertisements
for many of our customers, make selections
for the paper, write editorials. and collect in
subscriptions and pay off our debts And with
all our manifold labors, this last is the NEST
perplexing and disagreeable; and occupies
more of our time than all the rest put sogeth-
er. flour subscribers would pay US as fas: as
their subscriptions become due, we would be
relieved of half of our difficulty, and would
have at least one third more time to devote to
the editorial department of the paper.
We will state one or two facts to our read
era Our subscription list amounts to about
FIVE hundred dollars year. Of that sum on
ly about fifty dollars has been paid, leaving
four hundred and fifty dollars due US for the
present volume. When our readers under
stand that it costs US upwards of one thousand
dollars gear to carry on our paper, they will
be some what puzzled 10 ascertain how we
have managed to get along with fifty dollars.
We will tell you; our advertising and job
work is worth to US one thousand dollars a
year-enough to pay the expense of the Of
fee. But when we commenced printing the
Freeman. we had to purchase press, type,
cases. &c, and considerable portion OF them
on time. Some of the payments are now due,
and have got 10 be settled, and that right
speedily. We have also got family to clothe
and feed, which requires no small amour: of
money in Fremont
We end that there is about two hundred
dollars due US on advertising and Job work,
making in all over six hundred dollars. That
amount will relieve US entirely from eur pres
ent embarrassment; and if our readers, pat
rons, one and all, will come forward and pay
us what is due by the end Of the volume, and
renew their subscriptions for another year, and
thus relieve US from our pecuniary difficulties,
we will endeavor to give you the coming vol
ume a more readable and interesting paper.
The present year President of the United
States is to be elected, and questions of mo-
mentous importance to the people are to be
decided, and we wish to go into the canvass
free from all pecuniary difficulties. 1t is i'm
possible for US to write editorials, and at the
same time be dsvising ways and means to sat-
isfy an execution in the hands of the constable.
Reader, we have spoken plain to you, and
have told you the truth; and after we have
received every penny due US, we will have
printed paper in Fremont three years with
out clearing as many hundred dollars. above
the expense of supporting our family. We
could have done four times as well working
as journeyman, with half the labor and meme
Of the trouble. We shall, then, confidently
expect every man indebted to US, to settle up
by the 10th of March. We shall make out
bills against those living in Fremont, and call
on them personally during the coming week.