Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-04-14
NEWPORT.
HERALD OF THE TIMES.

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The subscriber presents himself to his
friends and the public and respectfully
solicits their patronage of the newspaper
which is now submitted to them, and
which will be published hereafter weekly
on Wednesday morning, from the newly
established office of the HERALD OF THE
TINES, at that central and very conve-
nient situation No. l53 Thames-street.
This paper will be devoted to what
the publisher believes to be the real
and cardinal interests of this country,
and especially to topics connected with
its advancement in Agriculture, Manu-
factures and Commerce. In regard to
the questions so warmly agitated in the
United States, as to the justice and ex-
pediency of the Protecting policy, and
of the system Of Internal Improvements
as adopted by Congress, it will be stu
dious to preserve liberal course Of con-
duct, never hesitating to avow its princi-
pies, while it invites the freest and most
thorough examination of the doctrines
and precepts of the American people as
manifested in the acts and declarations
of their Government. Upon the same
principle, this paper will be attentive to
the progress of the arts, and afford the
earliest notices of such inventions and
improvements as are worthy of record,
and which may enlarge materially, the
sphere of our enjoyments. IL aciH be
equally alive to the cause Of good morals,
and as connected aciih this object and es-
sential to the success oft, 1t aciH inculcate
Invariably respect for RELIGION, and
for the example and su6erings O our high
est Jenefactor. 1t will aim, in short, at
being useful and convenient vehicle of
information and news, for the Farmer,
the Manufacturer, the Mechanic and
Merchant and at the same time at
mingling with its graver dissertations, so
much of the literary and miscellaneous
character of Weekly Journal, as will
adopt it to the taste of every general in
quirer.
As to the politics of this paper, it is
perhaps unnecessary for the publisher to
be more than usually explicit in defining
their character. His political course,
while connected with the Republican,
was undertaking and open, and he has
seen no reason, in the shifting and tu-
multuous politics ofthese disastrous times,
to doubt the soundness of the maxim, that
honesty, n.this as in every other pursuit,
is the wisest policy. 1t will be his OBJ
ject, therefore, in the political depart
ment of his paper, to maintain mistaken
his Rhode-Island principles, and to ex-
tend and perpetuate that love ofindepen-
dence and political truth, which has Civ
en- to the smallest member OF the Union,
an enviable character for frmness and
integrity, which the proudest of her Sis
ters would do well to initiate.
The subscriber will not permit himself
to doubt the success of this experiment.
He is confident that the paper which is
now, and will hereafter be issued, with
the aid of friends, upon whose assistance
he can count with certainty, may be rem
dered as useful, agreeable, and instruc-
tive, to say the least Of it, as any now
published in this respectable community.
At any rate, he is determined that no
exertions shall be wanting on his part to
merit the confidence he presumes to So
licit, and which an intelligent public is
sure to award to honest and well direct
ed efforts for the public benefit.
JAMES ATKINSON.
Newport, April, 1880.
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