The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-05-31
PROSPECTUS OF
THE N. 0. WEEKLY TROPTC

twenty Copies for Twenty DOIlaFsFlI
I'M reestd With the vast importance OF the next
eeclon fer President and Vice President Of the
United States, aud believing, as we do, that uDon
me success OF the Wing party depends in great
degree the stability and prosperity OF the American
Union, no honorable efforts should be neglected bv
The lnends OF law, order, and constitutional liberty
TO ensure consummation so earnestly to be de-
sired by every lover ofhis country With an nm
anlmlty and enthusiasm never before paralleIed.
the Wing party presents to the American peoDle
for their suffrages for the highest station in The
world, the name of Americas noblest statesman.
HENRY CLAY! Mr.. Clay is now the candidate
ofthe party, and his nomination only requires a
Iornai announcement by the properly constituted
authorizes OF the party. That announcement will
be made next May, and from that day the Wings
oil the Union will march forward in solid phalanx.
determined TO do Justice to Harry OF the West.,,
and wipe from the national escutcheOn the stale
and stereotyped Islander that "Republics are I'm.
grateful"
We are of those who believe that the preat mass
of our counrymen are honest and patriotic. that
/ they only require correct information to enable
and induce them 10 support such measures and
such men, as will most etFectually advance the no.
nor and prosperity Of our native land. They have
no motive to do wrong, and hence, when correctly
| informed, they will invariably do right The high
est and nobest duty Of the press that great engine
ofinteligence and rational freedom, is to enlighten
the public mind, 10 scatter broadcast through the
land the true principles of liberty, morality, and
justice. Since the art of printing was discovered,
the press has been, and SO long it remains in the
hands OF honest men, 1t must continue to be- ifnot
the pioneer, at least the most powerful auxiliary
in every enterprise, having for its object the I'M
provement of mankind and the elevation Of man to
that exalted sphere Of usefulness for which God. in
his wisdom, intended him.
In The approaching Presidential election II ran.
not be Denied that il is TO the Wing press 10 which
our friends must look for the most useful Dowerf,l
and concentrated forts in that cause which binds
up in its support tFe hearts and hopes OF millions
OF our coun 'rymen. To the Wing ess, we must
look not only for the dissemna ion of sound and
wholesome intel igence upon all subjects of nation
pc icy, but for the antidoe the banefuI poisoD
of SANDER and mi>repr, sentation which dairy ard
weekly uters from the paid and pensioned presses
OF our adVersaries. Those misrepresentaltans are
sent forth on the wings of the wind and find tbei,
way into every nook and corner of our extended
country. They must be met--their statements en-
countered, their falehOods exposed, and their So
lhistres unmarked This is the du.y, the iTnnera.
tive duty ofthe Wing press: that press which has
through years OF dependency and Trial, stood firm
| amid disaster and defeat, and never shrunk from
any encounter, however hopeless the contest What
1t has been IN years past, we doubt it will con.
tlnue to be in time to come, but in order to make
the press useful, the people must come forward and
and It's conductors III giving TO correct information
and correct principles the widest possible circula
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every vo'er in the land, and, our word for il. tho
bread thus least upon the waters" will produce.
''after many days. goodly return.
AS humble laboreIs in the political VINEYARD. al
tar as IN our power lies, the light of truth reason.
Justice and common sense, shall be extended IN the
utmost, cost what ii may. We shall perfortn o,,r
duty, zealousIy, faithfully and fearlessly leaving
| the result to Con AND THE PEOPLE What Is no,3
most needed in the South West, is n chean and
convenient vehicle Of political information nsno
mn liSh od nj n OFip lou 7
reach of all, the poor well as the rich This want
we are determined to supply, and as it would be in
convenient and expensive to get up journal ex-
pressly for the purpose, wehave concluded to adopt
course which, we think, will be more acceptable
| to our friends and mole useful to the cause!
| We shall commence on Saturday, the Cd dav Of
March inst, the publication of an extra edition of
the w EEKLY TROPIC, which we will furnish
from that day unit the Presidential election in No
vember. period Of eight months at the very low
price of TWENTY COPIES FOR TWENTY
| DOLL AIRS! The w eekly Tropic is published on
sheet Of tie same size of daily paper, is lled
entirely with eading matter, and contains more of
it than any Weekly sheet published in the Sonib
West! During the eight months commencing with
March and closing with the Presidential election
the Weekly Tropic will contain more political ami
miscellaneous natter commercial and general
news than any paper ever published in New Orleans
| at FIVE TINES TIE PRICE, and hence it win he en-
titled to, as hope 1t will receive, the most ey
tensive circulation. The unexampled low price "A
which it is offered will require the largeet possbIc
circulation, to save US from PecuniaTy loss, and
when this fact is remembered we hope each and an
of our friends, wherever they may be located. will
lend us their aid. Twenty copies of paper ike
ours ortwenty dollars, is novelty in this latitude.
an experiment never before undertaken here.
The price at which we now offer the Weekly
Tropic is one which does not, of course allow re
any profit and il is absolutely necessary for us TO
adhercrigdly our terms. The money must in
variab!y be paid in advance, and in no case can we
make up package for any post Office Of less than
twenty copies
The attention our Wing fiends generally,an
Clay Clubs, and Wing Associations particularly "a
invited to the foregoing, with the request that hose
who may interest themselves in procuring subscri.
hers for the Tropic, will forward names and money
as early possible, it is desirable that we should