Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-24

No psoer ever hsd more bind or liberal set Of
n.,ro,,s thsn ours. It could be difbeult 70 over
att, fs,sir generous conduct towards us We haFs
/. Dersen.l reqard.fOr them that amounts TO ardent
friendship. even towards those upon whose faces we
have never locked. We have gone With some OF
them through the heat Of many battle; rejoicing
with them in cur successes, and encouraging them
in our defeats 1t is painful 10 US, therefore, IN
changing the terms Of our paper and getting our
new arrangement into operation, TO find an oid
friend, here and there dispIeSsed at something In
his transactions with our Office that he fnds not al
together right or which be does not altogether 1n-
dsrstand. One writes to us, for instance that he is
Gu OLD war horse in the ranks and has been paying
subscriber t, cur paper for nearly twenty years,
and thinks i hard that We should have erased his
name from our books because he had OTerlOoked tue
observance Of with our new terms
Now, our good friend should have remembered, that
there we're upon cur books several hundred of clever
friends just like himself, aud that the only means
Ct carrying forward such business as ours Is BY
rigidly adhering to prescribed rules; and that 1t
would be far beitsr for US to send him, and many
others, our paper grstutousy than to disregard our
published terms.
Another writes us that ct one time he aided in in
oreasng our circulation, regarding it as the best
way Of serving good cause, and that we ought to
have exempted him from the operation of our rule.
We acknowledge the kindness of this gentleman in
behalf of our paper, and would be pleased at any
time TO return The favor, but it would be the worst
Of follies to bring such matters intS conflict with
the business Of an Chiee like ours
Another writes us that his account is not cOrree-
that he is entitled to credit which he has not re-
ceiYed and intimates that he is offended. Now we
doubt not he is correct and our account incorrect
We fad this very frequently the case. Il is una
voidable in so large business Of small accounts,
and whenever pointed out to US they are freely and
promptly put right. Why then should any one be
annOyedf They have only to set down and write to
us enclosing their receipts stating their reasons
for believing themselves entitled to credits and we
take pleasure in making them.
We have great patience with cur subscribers in
matters of complaint. We understand how they
occur. 1t is only when soma Of our friends seem
fretted With US that We become annoyed. They
ought to know that errors in newspaper transao-
tiOns Ou occur and if they find themselves the sub
ects of these errors put it down as an anintention-
al mistake to which our attention needs to be call
ed
We have adopted the cash system because we
believed that it would be to the interest of our sub
scribers, 10 the interest of the Democratic party,
and to our own interest. We intend to bring
to bear all the enterprise our circumstances will
justify in order to rake the UNION AND AMER
IcAN the most interesting and useful paper in the
South We trust to have the cordial cooperation Of
our friends, and that such as have permitted them
selves to be stricken from list BY not conform
ing to our new regulations will axe steps to have
themselves put right again, and bring, EACH dozen
additional subscribers with them. What say you,
brother Democra.s3