Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-10-20
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LuUAIsaIIsOELLANY.
Almost Ended.

Jefferson, Will end with next week paper
With us it has been hard struggle, against
adverse surroundings. But we have OUT
reward, and to-day feel pride in the position
which our journalocchpics, We have fought
the blighting cutse,of radically surpation with
all tho energy and capacity with which we are
endowed. and have made many of its adhereuts
squfrm beneath the righteous scoursc of our
ott-applied lash. And at the present time
we are just as resolute in our purpose to con-
tinuc the warfare, we were when we
launched upon the unknown sea in 1865 If
there be those among our long list ofsubscri-
bers who feel respondent and disheartered,
by recent events, We bid them cheer up, and
with buoyant spirits try to soar above the
gloomy clouds that seem to hang above u.s.
Remember that r..t
'sTruth crushed to Garth will rise again, ~
God aud the eternal years are hers"
And now, word with you, Kind reader,
about this paper. We have tried to make it
acceptable to those who love the truth, fearless
1y told. We lave not sought for honicd
phrases in which to clothe our thoughts, when
we have had occasion to deal with the powers
that be. Where we have discovered rascaity,
we have unmaskcd it, and exposed it to the
light of day. This course has met with your
appreciation, as you have ofen told US. But
whilst we have been pursuing this course,
aad advocating your interests, have you been
equally mindful of ours? Have you ever
asked yourself the question, is this fearless
paper properly supported, and is its editor and
family beyond the reach of want? Have
you asked yourself the question, is the paper
that l. am now reading paid for, and if it is
not, how does its publisher manage to send it
to me week after week All, friends, few of
You Know how anxiously we have waited from
Monday morning till Saturday night, through
out the whole week, hoping that our Office
would De lit up with your smiles, and that
you would give us the word of cheer and the
means to go on rejoicing. But you didn't
rome-you neglected us-you thought we
were on the high tide and were growing rich,
when in truth we knew not where the next
peck of meal was to come from. And yet
we have fought it through, and still live, but
not with your assistance.
Now we have a proposition to make
There are .fUe hu"drcI Of you who have not
paid for the paper that you hold in your
l,and-some of you have been getting it two
years. If you were to pay us, do you think
would desert our post aud run off with the
money? We will give bond that we will do
no sucI. thing but will only labor the harder
for your entertainment. How easy it would
he for each of you to bring or send US three
IOi'trs or sir. as the case may be-by the
first day of November. With the aggregate
amount VIC could pay off our debts, buy shoes
for our children, lay in our winters supply of |
wood, and meat, and vegetables, and laugh at
the storm as it howlcd around our dor,icil. |
But you won't do it, and winter will be upon
us, and iud US with few comforts, laboring
night and day to print paper Tor you to read |
Ly your cczy evening fire. Now we doubt
whether fen of our subscribers, out of the fire F.!
hundred of ahoin we write, will come forward
and paw US within the time named. II VIC
meet them face to face, aud present their bills,
they viii say, ''well, really you must excuse
me, intended to settle this long ago but
somehow or other have neglected it. Tut
| reckon its in time" Very likely. And
some of you will say. "wel hav'nt got it
to day, but I'll attend to it soon," and six
months will roll round, and if we call upon
You again, you'll repeat the same story,-"I'n |
attend to it soon" Some of you will pat US
on the shoulder and say, "Bcall old fellow, |
you publish first rate paper. l like it, my |
wife likes it, my youngest boy aud my Oldest
girl like it. Everybody ought to take your
paper" when in truth, il everybody kept
US waiting for our money as you do, we would Mt
have oil to grease our press. Now the way
to have prosperous, fearless paper, is to keep
its editor vel! paid up. Let nothing stand
on his books against you. Pay him in adromcc,
aud read your paper, not his. You have no
right to expect him to furnish his time, his
talent, his labor, his means, to furnish you a
paper through the whole year without paying
for it. 1t is a mistaken notion that some of
you have taken up, that you ought not to pay
until you have read the paper whole year.
You can't get city paper upon such terms,
and you have no right to expect them of your
county press With these few remarks We
will proceed to close, expressing the hope that
between this and the first day of November,
we will shake hands with flee hundred OF you,
on receive so many letters through, the Post
Office containing your remttances, that We
will be kept busy from ''early morn till dewy
evc," writing receipts Tor you. And then VIC
will be glad. So mote it be.
D1sTR1cr CoNFERENcE.-The District
Conferpcnmceo for Winchester District, NJ. L.
Church, South, will meet in Woodstock on