The Arkansas banner., 1848-09-19
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 or THE .JEFFERSONIAN,

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 A Democratic newspaper to be puhlished weekly Afkansas decent respect to tlae sentInlents and regard fef ahs fseilugs ofany eOmanity sf intslli gent and influential American citizens make it beth respectful and proper for the publisher of public journal. at the commencement of hia enterprise, to announce fully and fairly the principles by which he will be gpvaned and tho great ebscts for which he will contend, aided hy the powerful instrnmen- tality ef she Press. No newspaper cun live by t. self alens must as tis psodncsions of the earth need the refreshing Hhowers from heaven. be wa tered, invigosated and sustained by public patron age; and as the American Republic b always made up of the two dominant pclIlcul parties which dis tingnish and divide tho community, every ncwspa- per, besides advocating It's own political principles with an uhtiring and sceplens vigilance, shouidad- gocate snch measures for the general good, ns will make 1t the fast friend of every person in the sphere of its circulation by svcloplng and publishing the sectional resources of tho county lending encour agement to every lanaabls enterprise. every good work and by regarding the benefit of the whole as ever paramount to individual interest. A strong and paipable distinction should ever be made between principles and KeasHrss The first are immutabe; last subject to considerations Of expedieRcs and policy, on principles, the great fathers of our Republic never or rarely differed; on measures ofien, even Washington and Jefferson sometimes had different views of the latter; of the formers never. #
 l The consultations of the United States and the constitutions of tho several States in accordance with It, and thS exponcnts Of the immortal Princi- pies of Republication which forever adjust the ba ance of popular power, and secure individual rights in our National and Stats Governments. The great doctrines of selEgocerRment and eQpGity of rights and political prioeges, are fuy guaraniied by those 1 illustrous documents which like the great sheet anchor and thirty assistant unchcrs, secure the ship of Statet her moorings, and cause her to ride securely amidst the political pillows and convulsiOns that now agitate a stormy world,
 In honor of the Patriot Statesman and sage Thos. Jefferson. the author of the deciaFation of Ameri- 1 can Independence, name that our wealthy coun ty on the beautiful Arkansas shait bear 10 the end of time--we propose give the of the JEFFER- soMAN our journal which shall feaflessy advocate his political principles we'll developc the re- sources, defend the interest and chronicle the im- provemcDts not only and especially of the county of Jefferson. but of the yonng and iourshing portion I of the State at large.
 l The county of Jefferson has wAhin its bounds an afluencc of soil that has nlade its assessment rolls reach the amount of one million three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, while the sum total of the entire State assessment is but twenty two millions of dollars-the county snglc-handed paying one fourteenth of the entire State tax-while the num- l Der of legal voters in the county, as taken some months since. when the population was not SO great as at present, amounted 10 five hundred and fftytwo Such fixed and undeniable statistics, as well as the fact that several large and opuent, if populous counties in the adiacency have organ of pnblica ton within their limits, the reasOus which have l led to the determination to establish an organ of communication at the county seat of Jefferson and open its columns to the advertisements and in de-
 fence of the local interests of this and the counties contagious.
 The new mail arrangement 10 take effect on the first of October ensuing. connecting Pine Bluff three l times week by mail with the mighty Mississippi Nk I.f sion of all the Eurpean. the Nor,lEzh. Eastern and southern intelligence long before Mean reach the capital of the Stae and thus be laid before the patrons of the "Jefersonan'' much earlier than through the medium of the other papers in the
 State
 The Publisher does moi deem it incumbent upon ] him fo enter more fully into the ''land marks of
 the "Jeiiersonian at present. every attention will be paid to the dissemination of general intelligence \ of literary well as Of political uature. Great care and attention will be given in noting and pub fishing weekly correctly possible, the procee- dngs of the ensuing session ofthe state Legislature as aiso weekly review of the foreign and domes- tic market of the country. In fine he hatters him self from many years connexion with the press that he will he ahe to give assurance to the community. that all that is right and nothing that wrong will be achieved through the management and instrn- mentality of the "Jeifersonian.''
 TERMS:
 The "Jefersonian' will be printed upon large
 imperial sheet, with new and elegant type selected expressly for, and 10 shit the enterprise; and will ] be furnished 10 subscribers at Two dollars and 1 fifiy ccnts in advance, or four dollars at the 1 end of the year.
 The first number of the "Jetfersenian'' will be issued early in October. Those who may wish their cards and advertisements appear in the first num- Der of the "Jeiersonian, which will be extensively circulated throughout the State. will forward them without delay, 10 the publisher at Pine Bluff VIM E. SMITH. PUBLISHER Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Sept. lIth ls4s. ~0D-H~