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lected. Justice will never be done I'm


less themselves assert their rights an,


enforce the NEST rigid rules, which in III,


end will be found alike salutary to the pu


lie and beneficial to those engaged in tn,


press. Publishers ofpapers have becn sc


long imposed upon by the community a


large, that they are considered TO som,
extent degraded class of beings, wher
in fact there is no vocation in life so hon
orabie, deserving of 50 high consideration
productive Of so much good. class tha,
exerts SO powerful an influence 1t is
known TO be proyerbial for the debtors to
newspaper publishers to consider their de.
mnnds ms the last to be paid--debts 10
which there is attached no moral obIgai
ton, and which they can refuse to pay
with justice and honor hence it is incum-
bent upon the conductors Of the press TO
assert their own rights, and resolve, sew
erall, and iointly, tt briEg all patrons of
newspapers under the same obligations
that attach to other contracts, or always
remain in poverty and want, with thous-
ands due them from tie most solvent men
in the country,


We call upon all editors ard publishers
of papers who approve of the following
rules, to endorse them by their signatures
place them at the head Of their papers,
and strictly adhere to them.


LIST. No subscription received without
payment in advdnce.


Cd. No subscription received for less
than six months.


81. Advance payment will be required
from all transient advertisers.


4th. To announce no man for any office
either state or county, without the ad-
vance payment often dollars.


5th. Political circulars charged as ad-
vortisements and payment required in
Gdranrc. n


9th. All advertisements of personal
alteration will be charged double, and
payment required in advance.


7th. Election tickets will not be print
ed without order, nor delivered TO any per-
son without payment


9Th. All subscribers, without respect to
persons, who are deinquenis on the lst of
October, will be stricken from the list and
their accounts put in suit.


The above rules, we, the Undersigned
pledge ourselves to abide by.


The above has been signed by nearly
all the editors and publishers in the state,
and we hesitate not to say, will be cnfor-
ced rigidly.


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We did not sign the "rules" sooner, but
experience has taught us that we should
nave done so. The lst Of October was
he time fixed on, snd our year ends not
ill February, after which we shall be GO
'erned by them; for, we are convinced,
nothing else will do


TOTHILL g. EISELY, :
Publishers Of the Piney Woods Planter.
The subloined, from the Philadelphia
public Ledger, expresses our sentiments
n this subject:


MEANNESS.--Some newspapers are
ternalIN hnrping on that foolish theme
Do, good patrons, pay us our money, and
ermit us to eat Dear, kind, honest,
ood natured, benevolent, charitable pat
ons, pay your subscriptions; we cannot
ct along without money; we know your
ispositon to encourage the press; don't
,rget your poor, slavish, beggarly print
r." &c. &c. Now, as the saying is, the
'orld owes every man living; to obtain !
he may work, beg, pick pockets, make
Iinplasters, according TO the directions of
is taste and talents. But one of these
ranches of business is enough; if he cho- {
rs TO work, let him work, and if he pre-
,rs begging, let him beg but it is curious +
deed, il man must work and beg, both. !
he pinful tone of supplcation used by !
,rtain papers, confesses want of worth;
lev appeal to the wrong princlpIe--they c
idress themselves to the compassion OF
when they have demands
! their Justice. Ilthey ask payment for
4 equivalent rendered, let them speak
1t like mer, and not whimper, whine and
le like mendicants. If they ask for mo-
ev, when they have no claims founded
law and Justice, they are beggars in -
ct, and may act accordingly. Of this
o are certain, that any business which
seds must be eked out with beggary, is u,
1t worth following; and five have cor =" ~
ct view of the subject, hoeng potatoes, 81 81
Gaming slnkss or any other kind of hon OF
It employment, is much more respecta- tlV
g than that "pay me for the sake Of cha OF
~" system, otl