The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-23
TO THE PEOPLE.

We publish this day specimen number
of the NEW SERIES OF THE WEEKLY UNION
in the improved and enlarged form In
which that publication will hereafter APP
near. The regular issue of this new series
of our weekly journal will commence with
the approaching session of Congress, and
its first regular number may be looked for
on Saturday, the 18th Of December next
1t will be printed on type entirely new, and
which has been cast expressly for this pub
Iication. We shall circulate very large
edition Of our specimen number, which
may be regarded in all respects as an exact
model of the weekly sheet which we I'M
dertake hereafter TO furnish TO our readers.
We have been encouraged 20 undertake
this new enterprise by the unexpected sue
cess which has hitherto attended the pub
LEGATION of the Weekly Union in form al
together inadequate to our ideas of what a
weekly newspaper at the seat Of govern
ment should be, aud in all respects vastly
inferior to that which we have now con-
cluded to adopt. In our specimen number,
our irieads will have an opportunity Of
Judging our work for themselves. Unless
we mistake the signs Of the times, the
day has now arrived when II especially
behooyes the democratic party of the coun-
try TO rally in vigorous effort to extend
and circulate political intelligence and
sound views of our national policy
among the people; to gather them
selves together on the broad and SOL
id platform of democratic principles, ire
spective of sectional cliques and jealousles;
TO promote harmony and cordial under
standing among themselves; and TO unite
against our adversaries in strenuous and
sustained endeayor to present to the minds
of the people, in popular and attractive
form, that vast array of facts and OF princi-
pies in which the cause Of the democracy,
as embodied in the cardinal measures Of
the present administration, is justified and
upheld. With the earnest purpose to do,
to the whole extent of our ability, our part
in this noble work, we undertake, at a
large increase in the expenditures of our
establishment, our present publication.
We seek to make it vehicle more COM
prehensive and complete than any other
which has yet been presented, by which
the democracy in every part of our
country, may become acquainted with
the views, the sentiments, and the pur-
poses Of our whole party. We dedicate
our undertaking to harmony, and through
harmony to success. We intend our
WEEKLY UNION in its new form for ma
tional circulation. We shall avail our
selves of every facility afforded by our posi-
ton at Washington to make it, in the
largest sense Of the term, a NATIONAL
NEWSPAPER for the whole democratic par
ty of the country. 1t shall not fail TO be
an adequate and authentic record Of the
times. Each number will be found, upon
inspection, to embrace in quantity the con-
tents of moderately sized duodecimo vol
ume; and in these contents, the topics and
the news of the day-intelligenc from our
army and navy--from the political and the
literary circles of foreign lands-from the
commercial centres of our own country,
and of other countries-shall be Analysed,
arranged, and condensed in a convenient,
cheap, and attractive form. We owe this
effort to the cause of democracy and to the
men who sustain it. We owe it also to
the favor and liberal encouragement with
which our previous endeayors have been
sustained by the people. ''.
The WEEKLY UNION, in connexion
with the CONGRESSIONAL REGISTER, will
furnish to our subscribers a complete
history of the political events and dis
cussions of the country as they occur.
We will send to clubs Of five persons
fue copies of the WEEKLY UNION for
one year, and five copies Of the Con-
GREssIoNAL REGISTER for the approaching
session of Congress, for TEN DOLLARS. In
dividuals in any town or district, by club
bing together, can thus furnish themselves
with both these pubications---the WEEKLY
UNION for year, and the CONGRESSIONAL
REGISTER till the expiration Of the last ses-
sion of the present Congress--at the unpre-
cedented low price of TWO DOLLARS for
each person. 1t is confidently asserted
that no similar publications have ever been
furnished from this city to subscribers at a
rate nearly so low. 10 j ala.e ga7 .-.
The circulation ofour Weekly jounalin its
old form has become large, and is constantly
increasing. In addition 10 the still greater