Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-02
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MUST "a AVE WHAT rs DUE tJs.9

ID S,ot fiEtasy; wv 1AT ID ltUE U.s.
Our sfnan sal affairs have teo ONE Il. that
crisis that dues on subscription, ad Sertssii6g
and job work to 'tbs srIaiT or EfFERsoN
must be paid cas- we cannot work for nothing
and live on air. heavy debt hangs over osS US
sfor paper. in which we have been kindly In
duiged, and this liability must be liquidated,
and aat qt once; Type founders, Qfiss rent,
taxes, tho hands ip eprt Office, light and fuel
sbillss groceriesand hundred other necessariesii
incident to family EXPENSES and 'phblishib ga
paper, crowd money. ind thsffsss.sl
mo nc way Of nssti them, but through collec-.
1tien Of what is DUE us.;s We will after this
week, commence making out alIsccounts, and.
1--WE hope that We shall not be thrown into the
dissgrseable Necessity Of making .of <. CO..
.leftions, We have iadnlged mill indulgence
has nand stob continue, al busi-
anesssby4 iperpetuaiIy paying cut aud with
noshsng eomsfa5g ii is Impossible. Will those
who ltaISs heed AZ, e9aa 1ga's ssI
l., ,s,2s1 a,sTAY&LAW.a" q !d-bae
IL being GENERALLY understood ithae Editors
are not responsible for sentiments expressed
in communicating, we publish this week a
we'll, written.letterifrem n0bserver,Y 2, advocat-
sing the passage ofia Stay law. In our lEdi>
,torial of last week is which 7aobssryer'ss''
letter is reply, we stated it as our 6elief that
nomoyement,in the .direetiop,of sag Stay,law
would findspopnlar favor ;,,and as Jeffersonis
certainly one'of thea richest counties in Tho
State, we did not wish, her people to place
themselvesin the position of being, the first,
and perhaps the only ones to ask for protec-
ton from the payments of their debts with
quite as much in their pockets with which to
pay them as the people OF. any, other county
SWesalsP' declared that experience had shown.
that where theretwas no mode of enforcing
the payments Of deBts;T people will pay neither
PFnecip3aat nor i INTEREST," and Ts VIII add that,
in our opinion at least, the effect of "a Stay>
-lsw is, always a ,demoralizings oneeto any com
Lmunity. ~Thoss were %our sentiments atsthe
time Of our editorial of last week, and we
must own that, notwithstanding "Observer's'
letter with its statement of fact in regard to
o
currency, ETC, with whichrwe confess not to
be familiar. our views remain entirely IN
changed. We do not propose an answer 10 so
able statistieian as observer" We pubS
!ish his letter in a conspicuous place, so that
"those who run may read" If it convinces
any one that, at this, time, the people of this
State would be benefited by stoppage of
the paymept,of al,debt<, we shall:not object
We merely take editorial notice of the letter,
because being ..of the same opinion still, !" We
did not choose that our silence, should be con
strued into a change of trout" aud a gen.
eral acauiescehcein the views of.O Observer"
Our; columns. are always open for the pubfica-
tion of communications upon matters Of pub
? lie interest; but when our views do. MOI ac~
cord with those Of our correspondence lit must
be understood that there is an apacable :sarree
ment to disagree" . '.-.' -. ~s:@