The daily union., 1846-05-01
PROSPECTUS
For publishing at Washington ne1ospa.
per, to be called
ssTHE UNION.''
TO THE PUBLIC.

Having purchased from Messrs Blair and Rives
the whole establishment Of the "Gobe," we propose
publishing at Washington paper, to be styled
'sTHE UNION"
We approach the task before us with deep serse
of the responsibility which about to assume,
tons. We have some acquaintance, indeed, with
the duties of editor of newspaper, but it was
acquired upon other theatres, much more limited
and less conspicuous than the metropolis of our con-
federated and widespread republic.
We can scarcely be charged with any inordinate
vanity in saying that upon the of our inst-
tuons depends, in a great degree, the destiny of
the Oldest countries Of Europe. A distant posterty
has a deep interest in our fate. The blessings Of
liberty are essential to the prosperity of the whole
human race and where are they spread out on so
large field of action, or illustrated by so many
brilliant examples, as in these United States'
We have only to realize them in our own history,
and in the happiness of our people, to spread the
name of liberty over the EASTERN World. We
have only to perpetuate these blessings ny preserv.
ing the sacred Union Of our STATES, and there is no
assignable limit to the prosperity which we may
enjoy or the glores to which we may ascend in the
scale of nations. We have already wrought mira
cles enough TO astonsh the foreign tourist amid all
his preudces, and to attract the curiosity, if not the
admiraton, of Europe. We have displayed the
benefits of LIBERTY and Of UNION in series of
d plenomena which are almost calculated to surprise
ourselves. What can be more remarkable even In
the present day. than the spirit of enterprise and i'm
provement which pervades our STATES the schools
which they are erecting the canals which they have
executed the more than 1000 miles of railway which
thew have constructed in less than twenty years; the
immense bodies of land which they have redeemed
from tie wilderness; the towns which they have
strewn over the West; the multiplication Of our peo-
ple from three to twenty millions of souls; the aug-
menation of the number of our STATES from thirteen
to twenty mine, including the three new States of
Florida, Iowa, and Texas, which, as we write, we
hope are now probably starting into existence
"westw ard the course Of empire takes its way
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day,
Times noblest offspring Is the last"
Ii is principally the influence Of the free nstltu-
tons possess, and which were never dreamed OF
more than hundred years by the phiosophic au-
thor of these beautiful lines, that has wrought so
many achievements here. Liberty excites man to
think for himself, to cast off antiquated preudces,
and to start in new career Of improvement. II
opens besides, in this new country as it were, a
new asylum 10 the oppressed of all nations which,
in despite Of the "Native American" preiudices Of
the day, still continues invite other people to cul
tivae our lands and contribute to progress. 1t
s our free institutions more than any other cause,
which are drawing "the course Of empire" to the
WESTERN WoRLD.
We live, too, in an extraordinary age. Improve
ment seems TO be the order Of the day. Science is
| shooting forth in all directions. Art is obtaining
the most brilliant triumphs over NATuRE. The age
IL advancing with the impetuosity Of steam TO which
It Is 30 much indebted for its progress Commerce