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22 THE COUNTRYMAN. TURNWOLD, GA., OCTOBER 13, 1862. The Comity Printing. The sheriff and the clerks o{ the Superior aud Inferior coiuts of Putnam County have agreed to do all their advertising with The Countryman—for which they have my thanks. $he ordinary has concluded to divide his patronage between this paper and the Recorder, and he has my divided thanks. Before beginning the publication of this journal, I asked the ordinary if lie would give me his printing. I understood him to say he would, unless specially instructed to adveitise elsewhere. With this I was satisfied. But soon I saw so many of his advertise ments were kept out of my paper, that I concluded surely the people of the county who gave The Countryman such universal patronage by subscription, did not intend to withhold from it their advertising patron age. and so I approached the ordinary the second time. Exactly what words passed between us, I am not sure, but the result was entirely satisfactory, and I thought there could be no mistake in the future, es pecially as a large run of patronage for awhile flowed in upon me from the ordina ry’s office. Lately, though, that patron age has flowed in the opposite direction. I could not help being astonished at this, for many reasons, and so I went to the or dinary the 3rd time, and told him it seemed that he and I could not understand each other, and I made a final call upon him, so that we might understand each other. The result of this interview was that I under stand from" the ordinary that it has been his intention all the while to divide his patron age between, this journal and the Recorder. I understood him to give 3 reasons for this determination. I condense those reasons, as i understood them : 1. —No journal of the non-age of The Countryman, could expect to do all the printing of a county. When this journal gets older, it will have more patronage. 2. —Some people who do not take The Countryman in the county, do take the Re corder. A few have taken the Recorder for 30 or 40 years, and hence desire still to advertise in it. 3. — The county patronage should be di vided between two journals representing the two old paities. Now as to the. 1st objection. I told the or dinary that what a paper could not expeet was no reason why it should not have pat ronage bestowed upon it, even without ex pecting it: and that what always controll ed, or should control in the matter, was the circulation, and not the age of the paper. The Countryman has a much larger circu lation. and is much more universally read in the county than any other paper taken in it : and this, of itself, is a sufficient rea son why it should do the county printing. As to the 2nd objection, I told the ordi nary that if (here were a few old men in the county who had taken the Recorder the number of years he says, and who were so much attached to it on that account, that they still desired to advertise with it, I was the last man who would fail to rec ognize that kind of feeling. It was one to which I delighted to do honor.—And here it is a convenient place for me to say that the Recorder need not be told that I have no disposition to injure it. The relations between myself and the editors have been one of uniform kindness, and they have done me too mai y favors, to allow of any effort on my part against its interest. I think, too, there are none who would more readily admit the force of my cause as set forth in this article than the editors of the Recorder. As to the 3rd objection, no action what ever ought now to be based upon the idea of old party divisions. And one thing is certain—that even if the Recorder repre sents one old party division, The Country man never did, does not now, and never will. It is no party paper, and would not be for any consideration. So far as past party divisions are concern ed, my personal friends and relations have always been against me in politics, and while they uphold me in everything eke, never did in party matters. These are the men now, who above all others, are sustaining The Countryman : and more men who were in the old party against me, have advertised with me than of those of the old party with which I was once aligned. This is a testimonial of personal esteem and friendship for which I sincerely thank my friends. Adi esteem it the more, be cause neither politics nor selfish interest of any kind, has anything whatever to do with it. There was no valid reason given by the ordinary why all, or nearly all of his ad vertising should not be done with me. It is my due, really, because I have the larg est circulation in the county, and because it has been, and will continue to be the ob ject of this journal to represent, and ad vance all the local interests of the county. A journal for this purpose is really needed in our midst. I told the ordinary that the golden rule, by which both of us, as good Christians, professed to be governed, required him to advertise with me. He is a merchant. I and my friends, and my father and father’s friends before me, had done a good deal of trading with him, and had supported him, too, for the office which he holds. Why not then advertise with The Countryman ? .What would he think of me if I were to pass by his store, and send down to Mil- ledgeville to get goods which I could buy on as good terms from him ? Would it be a neighborly act ? Would it be accoiding to the golden rule? No. Then tor the ordinary to pass me by, and go,to Milledge- ville to have his printing 'done, is neither neighborly nor golden-rulish. I told the ordinary, besides, that if I saw a man go ing from home to trade, and I knew he could ’do as well in the ordinary’s store, I would “speak a good word” for him, the ordinary. And so I think if the ordinaiy sees a man disposed to go to Milledgeville for his printing, and can turn him to The | Countryman office, where he can get it | done just as well and as cheaply, neighbor- ! lv kindness, and the.golden rule both re- quire him to “speak a good word for The Countryman.” It is with the ordinaiy, as with all otherhuinan beings. Where there is a will there is a way. When a man wishes to do a thing, "he can always find the means to do it. When he does not wish to do a thing, there are always a plen ty of excuses, to prevent action.—1 leave this whole matter with the ordinary, and shall not urge it upon his attention again, either publicly or privately. In what I have said to him, heretofore, I have acted upon the presumption that he was rny friend, and willing to accommodate me. If I am in error, the ' sooner I am undeceived the better. I neither ask. nor will receive unwilling favors, at the hand of any man, woman, child, demon, or devil. I ask my friends, though, to give their attention to this matter, and do all their advertising with me. ' They have the right to select the journal in which to publish their orders, citations, sales, &c. While a few enemies in the county have been very busily engaged in trying to keep advertising patronage out of The Country man, there has not been a corresponding effort on the part of my friends to supply that patronage. In fact, my friends have several times allowed my enemies to draw their favors away from The Countryman. A remarkable instance of this occurred in publishing the contributions iu this county