Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-07-30
The Last Week of Five Wears.

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The present number of the Sentine! COM
pletes its fifth volume. Five years ago, in a
little rickety shanty, (where now stands the
brick stores of Mr.. S~CHLATRE,) we commenced
its publication, and under very adverse circum.
stances. Having, with the assistance of stran-
gers, made purchase of our Office with funds
arising from an advanced subscription, together
with a short credit for the remainder, it requir-
ed no ordinary exertions to meet these and 9th"
er obligations, and still regularly issue our pa
per independent Of any pecuniary assistance
save what itself produced. With q limited
circulation, the inexperience of publishing q
country paper, an exhausted treasury, and debts
to be liquidated, we set to work with 4 light
heart and 4 willing hand as editor, compassion,
presslnan and d2riI. After working, and strug-
Cling and economizing, as we never worked,
and struggled, and economical before, we sue
ceeded not only in squareing off previous in
cumbrances, but also in catching q glimpse of
prosperity in the distance, and in getting a
footing, far beyond our anticipations and our
humble deserts, and enabling us now to say,
at this, The last week Of fire gears, that our jour-
nal is established upon a foundation of real
and perpetual solidity, the gradual growth and
prosperity of which being entirely independent
Of local or political changes. Although we
have never taken much trouble to procure sub
scribers, yet the subscription list of our paper
has doubled since it was purchased and name
changed-is rapidly increasing of late, and
within the last few weeks, growing at a rate
hitherto unprecedented. If We ever had high
hopes of brilliant success heretofore, those
hopes are brighter now that the question is de-
Cided rs to whether we could exist indepen-
dent of official patronage Of whatever nature.
While being enabled to speak thus cheering
ly of the past, we cannot avoid taking adyan-
tage of the occasion to tender our grateful ac-
acknowledgements to our many friends who have
borne with our errors and cheered US on in
moments of deep and bitter dependency. AS
an editor, our course may have been dotted by
inconsistencies !; we, nevertheless, have been
honest, should such inconsistencies have ap-
peared; this age is a progressive one in all that
relates to mind, and ignorant and prejudiced
must that mind be which is willing to stand
still upon old worn-out dogmas, while new
systems and new eras are making their marks
unnn the laStiuiac of nauEind
We have ever endeayored so to conduct our
journal as 10 give no just cause for offence in
our editorial remarks, and to make it an accep-
table companion for every family in the parish.
In commencing another and the sixth volume, |
it is peculiarly gratifying to us to know that,
with a large number of new ones,
still retain all our original subscribers and
advertisers, save those vino have moved far |
from our location, or those (alas.. many, indeed,O
whom the hand Of death has snatched from our
midst. AS we began so we expect to continue
aboring at our post to produce a paper worthy
IF its patronage-and when our own career is
It its end, we trust it will revert to ADLER and
vorthier hands, and live while time shall live,
o be the advocate of the people, their interests
nd their rights.