American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-05

sincere in your professions y on viii
support the organ of your party
Do not be deceived, do not bt
blinded. Remember that the Can
ton Mail stood by tue Democratic
party in the liour of it's need and
sore distress, that it did not wand
off after false gods or for the lOaves
and fishes of the enemy. Remem-
Der that the Canton Nal cham
ploned the cause of the. people at a
time when it was worth One's life
almost, to do SO, that it. starved. al
most, while battling tor the cause
of right, truth and Justice and
against the tyranny and burdens
that oppressed our people. Realem-
Der that the Canton Mail never
boosted that it was a Republican
organ, or urged that it had "Repub
,ican mouths to feed" Remember
that the Canton Mail IL the same
yesterday, to-day and tomorrow,
that it cannot be bought. Stand
by MS as you have done in the past,
and our best energies, talent and
Influence will be directed to the con.
Summation of the wishes of all true
democrats, the triumph of the st.
Louis nominee. and the success al
the regular democratic candidates,
National, State, County aud Muni-
Mai, July goth.
The above paragraph, which is
not the first of its kind that has APP
peared in the MdH during the past
six months, seems TO call for some
slight notice at our hands. During
times Of great financial stringency,
the present proprietor of the AMER
IcAN CITIZEN leased the Office and
to a party of gentlemen,
who saw fit to make the paper Re-
publican in politics. This transfer
of the Office was a purely CONNER
cial transaction, which the records
of the Chancery Clerks Office will
show, aud so far as We are con-
cerned, had no political significance
whatever. The lease, which, we had
hoped would result in a sale, ex-
pired and was not renewed, where
upon the establishment reverted to
its owner. There il no one now
witb.the CITIZEN, in any
manner, who ever entertained or
a Republican sentiment;
and so long as We control its desti-
MES, it will always be foand bat
thing for the right, and in full SYM
pathy with the views and feelings
Of the best PEOPLE of this commu.
nifty.
For more than twenty FIVE years
with perhaps the exception of the
interval above mentiOneD the
AMERICAN CITIZEN has been
welcome visitor to the homes of
hundreds OF the most refined, noble
and enlightened men and women OF
v hom any land can boast, and dur
ng all thattime but few complaints
If its course have reached us. So
ar as we can foretelI, it is likely to
pursue the even tenor of its way
or another quarter century.
We do not seek to deceive" or
o "blind" anyone. Nor shall We
yer cry aloud for help in such
ii table tones as those we quote.
" e do not ask anyone to patronize
'ur paper for what it has been or
will be--we simply place it before |
he public as it Is; and when il
ails to present sufficient merit to
rim a kind recepticn,we shall think
+ a commodity for which there is
70 general demand. We sh Ill not
eek to wing from political preju
lice or partisan gratitude IA support
$ bich may be denied to our paper
n accounLsof its own lack of worth
ND interest This plain business
'I-w of conducting a newspaper
Gems. i,o~r,er, to be beyond the
oril,n ehcnsiun vi the c.iiior of the
ta.i, and hence he is forced to
alopt the tactics above set forth.
nd appeal TO bis party az if it
Teie an eIrcmosrnnry institu 'or
'r tl" rcsusci !; ion vi "pl.yed QUO
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