The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-07
TO THE PUBLIC.

TO THE PUBblC.
In assuming the duties and responsibilities oil
conducting Democratic paper a, the seat oil
our National Government. few words oil ei-
nlaoatioo as TO the principles and policy by
which il viii - governed, may not be consider
ed improper, u unnecessary.
In Constitutional Republican Government
like ours, the remedy, the peaceful, Just anu
efficient remedy for all political evils, is IN The
hand, Of the People. They make the Govern
ment--from their consent, all lis Just powers are
derived add when that consent IS directed oy
MIND, universally educated and Intelligent, then,
and not ill tAen, is there eiiecIual and pema-
nent security for either the State or The People.
We assume the position that intelligence is
the life Of Liberty that an ignordni People
cannot long continue FREE People; thus be-
lieving, the conductors of this paper will devote
their best energies TO The diffusion oil useful
knowledge and to the cause OF universal educa
lion il is with them a question of paramount
and all-conlrolling importance, and no effort
shall be wanting on Their part to awaken the
public mind To a sense of the imperative obliga-
ton which exists, of educating every child 10
the land. IL is a measure which We believe TO
be indispensably necessary TO The perperuity OF
our free institutions, and It's earnest advocacy
will constitute an important feature IN the fu-
ture character Of our journal.
The conductors of the new paper about TO be
established here, having long been connected
with the public press, in different sections OF the
Union, full knowledge Of their capacity and
6,ness for the undertaking in which they are
abs~ to engage, is already with the People. of
themselves they take leave to say, that the prin-
cipass Of the Democratic faith, which with them
have passed the ordeal Of years of thought and
study, have daily grown clearer and Stronger
more permanently rooted in The mind and
heart-and the paper they are about to publish,
is but the continuation Of an effort, to which
the best years of their whole lives have been
devoted For the future, then, they have the
highest satisfaction in appealing to the past
for that they have neither explanations TO make,
nor apologies to offer. u..Er
We consider government in this country at
least, as designed 10 be the agent of the popular
will that it was intended always 10 be the SER
want of the People; never their master, nor
their benefactor; that being instituted for the
equal benefit and protection Of all it has no spe-
cial privileges to confer on any; that the protec
ton il affords should be general, not partial
universal, not special-uniform, not discrimna-
ting; to all individuals, not to classes and dis
tinctve interests; and that whenever it confers
special privilege special protection, on any in
dividual, or class Of individuals, it becomes an
usURrER. producing positive wrong and injustice
to society. All the protection we should ask
from Government is protection against lawless
aggression, not against fair and honorable com
petition.
We have high and revered authority for say
ing, "there are no necessary evils in Govern
ment" Whatever political or social wrongs
the People suffer, result from ignorance, or from
departure from the plain and practical princi-
pies we have already presented We shall,
therefore, feeimperatively called upon to oppose
unequal laws which confer SPECIAL PRIVILEGES,
with our undivided strength We shall insist
upon an absolute and unconditional abandonment
of all inequality in egislation--the repeal of all
laws sanctioning oppressive monopoies, and the
practical disapprobation Of all usages which up
hold usurpations of political power.
Maintaining these great doctrines, promulga-
ted by JEFFERSON and practised by JACKSON,
we are fully prepared to defend them at all risks
and at every hazard. They are interviewer
with every fibre of our hearts, and we shall de-
vote our best energies in their universal diffusion
and appreciation.
Thus far we have spoken, and at greater
length than we could have desired, of what we
intend shall be the EDITORIAL character of our
paper. With us the political rights of all are
equal; we are the advocates of equal laws,
equal burdens, and equal benefits; equal means
of acquiring wealth and equal protection to pro-
perry and persons. Not to fatigue the patience
of the reader further we pledge ourselves TO use
our best efforts to make our paper all that its
warmest friends shall desire. Itmay be that we
hope for a larger patronage than we shall de-
serve-but il each Of our literary and political
contributors shall do all we have perfect conf |
dence to expect they will be able TO accomplish |
in our behalf, we shall strive to deserve more
than we even dare to hope.
respectfully ask the attention of the pub |
lie to the following prospectus:
PROPOSALS
For publishing, in the City Of Washington, new
daily, semtweeky, and weekly, Democratic Repub-
lican paper, to be entitled
THE CONSTELLATION.
By JESSE E. Dow & Co.