Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-09-20
To u Friends.

We would make an earnest and urgent appeal to
the friends and patrons of the Spirit of the Age
and the Temperance public generally, for their aid
and efforts in procuring subscribers to the same.
With the close Of the volume just ended, the SUBJ
~scription year of a large number of our subscribers
expired, and a great many have not been renewed.
In most instances, we believe, this has been owing
to thoughtlessness in some, and to the fact that per-
sons who have been kind enough to procure us their
names, in the first place, have not applied to them
to renew and no one else undertaking to act as our
voluntary Agents, many names have fallen off from
our list that could easily have been retained there.
rs Now, we would earnestly request that some
friend in every town, village, and at every post
Office in the country, would interest themselves in
procuring subscribers to the Spirit of the Age, and
to all doing SO, we will furnish a copy of the paper
free; the low terms on which it is printed render
ing it impossible for us to give any thing more for
such services. If we were getting s. and 50 for the
age, as are other papers of the same and lesser size,
we could afford to give handsome Premiums to all
who exert themselves in our behalf. But as we wish
to furnish the people of the South with a good pa
per as low as they can get it at the North, we hope
: Southern spirit will aid US in our enterprise,
and thus help put away all excuse for sending
: North for cheap literature, and which often teens
!; with incendiary publications against our people
L and our Institutions.
2 We have never had reason to complain on &C
? count of lack of support to the Spirit of the Age
thanks to a generous community, it has always
exceeded our most ~sanguine expectations-but as
n our motto is to do the greatest good to the greatest
E. number, and coupled with the fact that the high
lie prices now to be paid for paper, which is causing
In many Of the So weeklies to talk of increasing their
r prices, and also the high prices for labor, living
q &C., render it important that an increased support
- should be given commensurate with these addition
10 al expenses. We would therefore press it upon oul
numerous friends, in the State and out of it, eacf
IRS 5 ana mGfe sS SaBgt 2nss s e sst t Re 9e can, at one dollar each
OF and we promise to give them a paper with which
they shall be as well satisfied as with any othe,
y weekly paper they can get, North or South, for S:
~ or So a year.
VS. To our friends, the Sons Of Temperance, t.
many of whom we are indebted for hundreds of ia
vors, we would especially appeal to strengthen GU
re- hands while we labor in the good cause in whicl
ty, we are all engaged. Let some brother be appoin
on ted in each Division, or take it in hand voluntarily
raj and get every member of the Order he can to sub
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aC neighborhood, knowing that he can promise a goo
~, paper, filled with a variety of useful and entertain
GtS ing reading.
= Va Our friends, the Postmasters, can also al
The US greatly in procuring subscribers, and we wouI
is: thank them to do US what service they can in SenC
ing US names from their respective offices. "
lay tender our sincere acknowledgements for the man
see favors received from such quarters.
&- We want our listincreased to ten thousan
- and if our present subscribers will but get one ne
70 subscriber each, this desire will be more than a
arn tanned. We beg that every one that reads this a.
peal will try and get every old subscriber in b
ng, reach to renew, and also add as many new nam
rtn as he can possibly procure; and VIC promise to fu
I'LL nish a paper that will please all classes of readers
az eccept the UiciOuS and bad! Va The LADIES ca
help us not a little, bytheir efforts. Having secure
+ n the services of accomplished Female writer's, in di
Use ferent parts of the South, to contribute for their e.
ifcation and entertainment, we hope our far frient
ate will send us large lists Tor small ones, as they ma
bill be ablel of Ladies and Gentlemen. and tbus rive
assurance of their apprecia ton of our efforts
- please and interest them.
't m~ Remember! Only One Dollar a year, for
twenty-eight column weekly Newspaper, publishe
the in the South too, at Raleigh, n. C.