The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-08-21
10 Che Readers of the Eaton
Democratic Press,


SIns7It is now our privilege, as
well as duty, to call your attention
70 a7few facts, which, though they
may not interest yousto the extent
to which we should like to see you.
moved BY them, are, nevertheless,
ofgreat Importance to us 50 much
so, that they will ever be remem-
bered by us. Well, e the point.
The present paper completes our
second volume. You know, that.
we took to the Press in the early
part of the month of May, 1861.
We then engaged to supply those
Subscribers who had paid Mr.. Mou-
dy in advance, with the paper for
three and a half months, and we
did SO cheerfully, and faithfully.
The presentc alamitous war, rushed
upon all parties, and many of our
regular subscribers entered the
military service of their country,
and we were thus deprived of a
very considerable portion of our
L""
pecuniary support. You are fully
aware, sirsA that the sad war in
which we are still engaged, has
grown into awful dimensions, and,
consequently, many Of our Demo.
cratic readers have gone forth to
the great and ever growing conflict.
MAY God preserve them, and bripp
them back in peace.) W. have
thus lost very many of our best
readers and supporters and the felt
and painful consequence is, that
our income derived from the Press.
instead of Increasing, as we really
and nationally, at first, believed it
we uld, has gradually and greatly
diminished 80 that the money
which we brought from England,
to enable US to establish O first rate
school, has been expended in a
struggle to sustain your own county
organ, the Democratic Press.
Now, sirs, we use great plainness
speech, and say, that whether
the Press is to maintain its ground,
or whether it is to perish, rests
with you, and not with us. What
ever sum of money any of you
may have advanced to begin the
paper, we have expended a much
greater sum of money to keep it
going. Yes, sirs, much more than
two or three Of you, but we cannot
afford to do as we have done. We
know how to be respectful and
courteous to our readers, but we
must, at the same time, be open
and candid in our statements, in
this our address.
The Democrats of Preble county
have never supported their owl
county organ as they ought to have
done. We have tried to present
our readers, week after week, with
a good paper, and competent
judges have pronounced it a well
conducted journal. or one, thing
we are absolutely certain, and thai
is, that in no single instance, have
we deviated from the true nrln
ciples inherent in the American
Constitution.
We regret to have to allude to ;
subject with which we ought no
to have anything to do. We refeI
to some kind friends, who persuade
themselves that as they subscribed
to a fund with which to start the
Press, they have nothing to pay
for their paper! AS we had moth
ing to do with the conditions OF
which the Press was started, SO
neither, are we responsible to an,
one for their subscriptions to tn
Press. We are fully satisfied, tina
our kind friends will at once SC,
the error into which they hav'
fallen relative to US. All who real
the Press as edited and publishes
by us, are both legally and moral,
bound to pay, and we have n,
doubt, that after reading this deli
cate explanation, they will cheeful
ly do so. .|.. sF
There are a few defaulters, VIII
are atill in our debt, and we mea
to max e them pay, or put them t
open shame. The bulk of GU
present subscribers, in town an