The Arkansas advocate., 1836-03-25
Constitutional Journal.

f NaE undersigned proposes to publish in
 n the townof Helena, Ark. Ter. week. ly newspaper, to be styled < The Consiifs- t!oHaf Jo1FHat. in presenting his claims to 1 the patronage of the public, he can, in ad- vance do nothing moro than to promise on Lis part, his most faithful exertons to render llis aper vehicle ef useful and entertaining knowledge.
 itis fact, sadly attestod by past experi- enee, that the character of the press has par taken too much of the bitterness and rancoar l of partizan feeling, which has unfortunately pervaded our whole country. In tho grant political canvass which has agitated the land. the malegelent and angry passions of our na- ture, ssem 10 nave been too frequently exar- clsed; and in many cases, d disregard ofthe courtesies of social intercourse, has hsen the consequence.
 sItnated a we are, 10 rcason osn be per- eeivsd, why the people ofArkanrhs should be- come m any manner, party to tas struggle for power, which is sow going on. At this tlme, they laNe no voice in the selection of Chief Magistrate, and instead of wasting strength ii a controversy, which, in any as- peet must prove unprohtable to them. the en- ergies of us all should be united in the pro- motion of our peculiar and losal intersAta. We are seeking to become member of the great eoHtederaey of the United States, and to be plaeed upon an equality with tho sovo- reign States of the Union--the right to this equality is euarantied to us by the constitution Of the United States and 1t shall be tine buai- ness of the '1JouRNALo to assert and maintain 1t.
 Ae man can cast his eye eyer the isspo oes oasT Territory, without psrcciving the natural advantages of our geographical position.--- Bounded on the east by the mighty stream, which has not inappropriately been termed the great Father of Waters, and three other < efsti nt fetetriIiE out trr arIns, through | region of unsurpassed fertility, with tho countless lakes and nayigeble bayou3, which dot almost every township, the truth forces itself upon us that we have only to be true to ourselves to attain the most elevated grade in the scale of national prosperity. The stock and grain of the North, and the great staple of the south, produce an identity, instead of diversity et interest, bet.ess s'A different parts of our Territory. To c.l1iv&se kind and bretherly feeling, and to develops the re- sources of our wgole country, Is As obviously the interest of us all as it is gratifying to the heart ofeYery true patriot and phiianthropst.
 The Editor of the Journal will sedulousy aim to suppress all local or sectional jealousy. He has higher aims in the establishment of paper, than to sndeavsur to array one portion oftae community against another. He thinks that the time has arriuad, Aulaa. zAase sAc;sia Dc q union of feeling, as tlIere esstainly is of interest, among alJ the people oi Arkansas. The general course of his paper sill be dI- rected to the promoten of what he conceives to be the welfare osthe wsols Territory Hs pledges himselfto adgoc-se whatever meas- ufe ae believes to be right, regardless Of tho source of its enanation, and to hold up to public aeofn, the corruption of public men, no matter in whom found.
 ". T. YEOMANs.
 Jan. 6, 1896.
 e. The Constitutional Journal will be published Oil super royal sheet, with new materials, at s4 per annun payable in ad-