Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-06-16
THURSDAY, Jurs is, 1905
PROSPECTUS OF "A PAPER.
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& ENTITLED,
The COLUMBIAN.

Il Paper whose contents and principles
shall be satisfactory to tile moderate OF bot
parties, presents to his friends and the liberia
public in general, the following outlines .,
his plan, hoping that they may be consonan
to feelings warm in the defence of libert,
and the true interests of the country.
lles work will at all times be open to the
discussion of political matters, destitute Of
rancor on the one hand, or, of overweening
Partially onthe ether. The Editors se'cc-
tons shall be made with care and attention,
never sacrificing for any purpose the real In
terest OF the community, or wandering from
the established standard Of truth
In the natural course OF affairs, 1t vii.
sometimes be necessary, from a WaEt of po-
ltical matter, that the columns OF paper
should be supplied With moral disquisltions,
practically useiui ndintcresIng, and instruc-
tive anecdotes from historic. research. Nor
can this course be well objected to by those
whose feelings are alive to the cause OF ge-
nuine morality aud religion. The Editor.
calculates with confidence upon receiving
frona those whose education and means Of In
formation VIII authorize 1t, {, copious supply
of materials on these subjects. His paper
will be at al! IMes open to receive the rcHse-
tons OF the man OF science, or the deep re-
search of the critical scholar.
Communications upon all matters, touch
ing Agriculture, Commerce and Manufac-
lures, together with plans for the general
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The editor, earnestly DESTROYS to conciliate
parties, will use his most strenuous cndeayors
to effect SO desirable an oblcct--and in the
town OF Alexandria, where he is attached by
the strongest ties OF nature, and Of interest,
he Will ever consider it as primary object,
to destroy those seeds of dissention which
have had the tendency to retard the growth
and prosperity of the town. 1t is obvious to
the most superficial observer, that the minn-
TIA of politics cause difference of sentiment,
and not those general and universally ADMIR-
ell maxims in governmental institutions.
The principles of the great and iiiustrious
Washington, together with his services, shall
ever be rcvered.
The editor is far from desiring to impose
on the minds Of those who may favor l.;
with their pat, onage, that his mind has as,
s,nned no stand on the important subject o.
politics, no! on the contrary, ne uneqlnNo-
cally declares, that his sentiments are decld-
edy republican.
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June Ia
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