The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-01
Constitutional Journal.

Alsh undersigned proposes 10 publish iri
 U the to#noi Helena, Ark. Ter. n week | Y newspaper, to be styled The Gonsfifu ftonat Journal. presenting his claims to the patronage ef the public, he can. in ad vance denothlng more than to promise on bis part, bis most faithful exertiogs to render his paper | vehicle of useful and entertaining knowledge.
 itis q fact, sadly attested by past exper. ence, that the character of the press has par taken teo much of the bitterness and raneour of partizan feeling, which has unfortunately perVaded our whole country. In tho great political canYass which has agitated the land, the maleYolent and angry passions of our na- lure, seem to have been too frequently exer- eisedi and Ill many cases, n disregard ofthe eourteses of social intercourse, has been the consequence.
 Situated IS we arc, no reason ean be per. celved, why the people Of Arhanrhs should be- come n any manner. party tn tlle struggle Tor power, which is now going on. At this tune, they have no voice iH tic selection of Chief Magistrate, and instead Of wasting strength ih | controversy, which, in any as- pect must prove unprofitable to them, the ef< erges of us all should be united Ill the pro- motion of our peculiar and local interests. We arc seeking to become q member of tho great cenfederacY of the United States. and to be placed upon an equality with the soye- reign States of the Union--the right to this equality is guarantedt to us by the constitution oi the United States, and 1t shall be the busi2 ness of the "JouKNAL" to assert and maintain it.
 No man can east his eye over the map of OUT Territory, without percciving the naturaI advantages of our geographical eesiton.-- Bounded OH the east by the mighty stream, which has not ri,.s the great tather of Waters, and three other great rivers stretching out their arms, through a region of unsurpassed fertility, with the countless lakes and navigable havous, which dot almost every township, the truth furtss itself upon Us, that we have only to be true to ourselves to attain the most elevated grade ill the scale of national prosperity. The stock and grain of the North, and the great staple of the South, produce an identity, instead of q diversity of interest, between tle different parts of our Territoryi To cultivate kind and brotherly feeling, and to develope the re- sourees of cur wgole country, Is as obviously the interest of us all, as it Is gratifying to tho heart ofeyery true patriot and phlanthfopist.
 
 aim to suppress all localor sectional jealousy. He has higher aims in the establishment ot T paper, than to endeaveur to array one pert;o.. ofthe community against another. He thinks that the time has arrived, when there should be aunion of feeling, as there certainly is of interest, among all the people of Arkansas: The general course of his paper will be dl= reeted to the promotion of what he conceiyes to be the welfare of the whole Territory. He pledges himselfto advocate whatever meas are he believes to be right, regardless of ihs source of it's emanaton, and to hold up to public scorn, the corruption of public men, no matter in whom found
 W. T. YEoMANS.
 .Ian 6, 1886.
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