The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1848-02-05

Cincinnati Signal.
TO THE WESTERN PEOPLE.

TO THE WESTERN PEOPLE.
| AND ALL INTERESTED IN THE WEST.
The Valley Of the Ohio is full OF newspapers,
conducted with admitted ability, but with special
objects. They constitute the potent machineries
| of political parties and religious sects. The East.
ern cities have had the monopoly OF our market,
for the circulation of Literary journals, which are
not adopted to the spirit of the Western people,
whatever their other merits. The West should
possess a journal, adapted more prominently than is
usual, to the supply ofsuch a want.
The undersigned have been so fortunate as TO be
in frequent and pleasant intercourse with those
Western writers, who can effectually aid his own
inadequate efforts to furnish a sheet, whose chief
object shall be to minister to the social and intel
lectual progress OF the Western people. The
CINCINNATI SIGNAL has been selected for such
Il purpose. Its publication has lately been chang
eg from a Daily to a Weekly form, to facilitate that
object. Already, ample evidence has been afford
ed, that its friends in the West and elsewhere,
welcome the arrangements which have long been
in contemplation, and are now maturing. The
editor and publisher would, therefore appeal to the
Western people, and all interested In the West, to
extend to the present enterprise a prompt and lib
eral support.
To prevent future misconception, the under
signed would state that he should insist upon the
right to discuss the political and social questions
" u Jay, WIZ III utUuOSL HttuOHH, Dut always,
as he hopes, in a spirit of independent and candid
inquiry. If the views, thus honestly advanced,
should meet with dissent, he invites reply through
the Signal, but within the same limits which are
taken for the presentation of the sentiments IN ques
ton. The present is so evidently a condition of
transition, both as to the opinions of individuals
and communities, that no journal should shrink
from an independent utterance---certainly not,
when full license is afforded for rempnstrance and
refutation. When the public mind shall have sub
sided into anything like habitual modes OF thought
and action, the occasion for such a course will be
less obvious-the duty, less imperative.
We may be allowd to claim that the IGNAL
ives to the careful observance of this rule o~faction
that its brief existence of a year has secured a Gel
ebrity enviable in this at least, that it extends to all
parts of the country. We can see no cause, in
this respect, to deviate from our former course
As to the future, we would only add, that our ar
engagements include the commercial and current
news; a well sustained literary department; fire.
guent TRANSACTIONS from the French and German
press; a full correspondence with the Eastern cit
les, and minute narratives Of every local event,
which bears upon the social and intellectual wei.
of this central capital of the continent
Our Terms to mail subscribers are Two Dollars
to single subscribers; Five Dollars for three copies;
and Fifteen Dollars for ten copies-payable in adj
vance. Address
JAMES w. TAYLOR,
Cincinnati, o.