Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-07-06

ROSPECTUs OF a PAPER
40 BE PRINTED IN ALEXANDRIA,,
ENTITLED,
The UMBIAN.

THE Subscriber, anxious to establish q
a P. as whose contents and principles
ALL be satisfactory to tie moderate on Doth
.,rties, presents 10 his friends aid the 'loeral
:uollc III general, the following outlines ot
as plan, hoping that they may be cohsonant
% feelings warm in the defence oil liberty
nd the true interests of the country
The work will at all times be open to the
discussion of political matters, destitute u
'ancor on the one hand, or OF ovefweenl'g
,altiaiity on the ether The Editors se!cc.
tons shall be made with care and attention,
never sacrificing for any purpose the real M III:
terest OF the community, or wandering IRON
tlf. established standard Of trutn
In the natural course oil aiIaIrs, 1t VIII
sometimes be necessary, from want OF POI
iuical matter, that tae columns OF paper
should be supplied with moral dlsqulslt'ens,
practically useful and interesting, and lnstruc-
tive anecdotes from f.islel Fssearh. Nor
eau this course be well objected 10 BY those
whose feelings are allse to the Cause III ge-
nuine morality and religion. The Edltpr
calculates with confidence upon RECEIVING
from those whose education a,la means Q! ~
formation will authorize II. q copipus supply
of materials on these subjects. Ills paper
will be at all times open 10 receive the rthec-
tons of the man OF science, or tle deep re-
search Of the critical scholar.
Communications upon all matters, touch,
ing Agriculture, Commerce and Aanufac-
lures, together with plans for the general
improvement in Canals, public Roads, ana
the various discoveries in any hranchps earn
ing or the mechanic arts, will be particularly
sought after, and punctually inserted.
The editor, earnestly 1lesirous to concillatc
parties, will use his most strenuous cndsayors
to effect SO desirable an obJcct---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 4 primary object,
to destroy those seeds OF aissention wiich
have had the tendency to re,ard the growth
and prosperity Of the town. 1t is obvious to
the most superficial observer, that the ininu-
tia Of politics cause difference assortment,
and not those general and universally admir-
ell maxims iii governmental institutions.
The principles Of the great and illnstriops
Washington, together with his services, shall
ever be revered
The editoris far from desiring to impose
on the minds OF those who may Favor him
with their patti onage, that bis mind has as.
sumed no stand on the important subject ct
politics, no! on the contrary, he unequlvo-
caly declares, that his sentiments are decid-
edly republican.
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