Arkansas True Democrat [Little Rock],
July 4, 1861
Newspapers, as well as other institutions, North and South, are constantly succumbing to the storm, but the True Democrat still weathers it bravely and securely. No matter at what sacrifice to ourselves pecuniarily, we intend the True Democrat shall live and issue regularly during the war; but while we so intend it is our purpose to furnish it to no one who will not contribute his mite, at least to the amount of his subscription. We may have to decrease the size of our paper–we expect to be compelled to do so–but as our advertising will be small during the prevalence of the war–we shall always be enabled to furnish as much reading matter as we do with our present proportions.
Since the commencement of the troubles between the North and the South, the increase of our subscription list, with the subscription price always in advance, has been unprecedented. In north-eastern Texas alone we have received over two or three hundred subscribers within the last six or eight weeks.