The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-07-10
PROSPECTUS
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
FARMERS CHRONICLE.
RICHMOND, Ky.

it is located, (including the counties east
and south Of the Kentucky river, to the
Virginia line,) is worthy of and can and
ciH sustain press commensurate IN
character with its own important inter
ests, as compared with those Of other sec
tons, takes this method of increasing his
list of patrons, that he may, by such in
crease, materially improve his paper,
and render it more worthy of general
support than he has hitherto, perhaps,
been able 20 do, for want OF more extend
ed patronage The character ola news
paper as much depends upon the number
and character of its subscribers as upon
all other causes and influences combined.
If it can boast of large list of paying pa
irons. 10 nine cases out Of ten the paper is
good one; for the simple reason that
the publisher is stimulated IN his eXer-
tons 10 render it valuable and interesting
by the assurance that he feels of an ade-
quate return for his labor and OUTLAWS IN
doing so. But, on the other hand, no pa
per can, will, or ever has flourished, and
proven a good, readable journal, unless
Literally sustained by those interested in
its permanency; snd Shat individual in
the community is not, more or less, IN
terested in the permanent establishment
of press in his neighborhood or section
ofcountry! We presume that no one
will attempt 70 controvert these PROPOSE
tons.
The MISUNDERSTANDING published the
Chronicle" (oraAthe last three years,
after his own modseand under his own
peculiar management, he deems 1t unne-
cessary to resort to promises, or make
pledges as to his future course, being
willing that the past should serve as an
earnest of the future. Having used his
best exertions, during that time, to merit
the king encouragement of his friends
and the public, he believes that his course
has been such as not to disappoint their
Just expectations. For more than three
years his feeble efforts have been direct
with those Of many others, engaged
in the same cause, whose arms may
have been more potent, but whose feel
ings were not more srdently enlisted in
the mighty struggle than were hiS-to
bring thai great and important change in
the administration of our national affairs
which has recently been witnessed in the
triumph of Wing principles. That OBJ
ject being accomplished, we may now look
with confidence to the adoption of such
measures as will ultimately, if not imme
diately, relieve our country from the
general distress and embarrassment
which overshadow, like pail, her dear
est interests. But the work is not yet
finished. 1t is not for the sentinel, even
now, to sleep upon his watchtower. Eve
ry good citizen should esteem 1t priv
lege and duty, at all times, and under
all circumstances, to watch, narrow y, the
progress of events, and inform himself
thoroughly upon all subjects involving
the interests Of his country, and the per-
manency of her free institutions. To do
so is to laudably perform the high func-
tons of freeman and patriot; to act
otherwise,-to slumber at his post-to
shut his eyes upon every thing but what
he esteems his own private interests, is
madly to throw away his highest prero-
gative-to basely sell his richest birth
right.
Now, we are one of those who believe
that " intelligence is the salt Of a Repub-
lic," and that without its general dissem-
ination-without universal diffusion Of
the light of knowledge amongst the peo-
pie, we have no assurance that our liber-
ties will be preserved. Ignorance is the
parent of credulity, as we'll as of vice !;
. / n nd ubor a.. 1cI l.
not shed its genial rays, there is the field
of all others, for the scheming dema-
gogue and the unprincipled aspirant.-
How essential, then, that every friend Of
his country knowing these facts, should
regard it as one of his first duties to pro-
mote, by all reasonable exertions, the
spread of knowledge amongst his coun-
trymen, and more especially the rising
generation? And how can this be done
unless by the general circulation of books
and newspapers There is no other
means; and all will acknowledge that
newspapers from various considerations,
are superior to books, as vehicles of in
telligence, in regard to the PREsENT-to
the great world as it now is, and to the
mighty events that are every day trans
piring.
Perhaps word may be necessary in
relation to the future character Of the
Chronicle" without making any pIedg-
es or promises. AS before remarked,
the past may be generally regarded as
an index of the management of it here
alter, with this difference: 1t shall par
take more of the charaot &c . T:to1u..
and family newspaper, than of political
one. Agriculture shall occupy a due
proportion of its columns; whilst litera-
ture, the arts and sciences, history, tales
and sketches, poetry, &c. &c. shall not
be neglected. In a word. we shall endea-
j vor to make II q welcnnne uisitant "a IL