The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-10
PROSPECTUS OF "THE MEDIUM"

A Newspaper TO be published Daily and Weekly
in New York and Washington City,
Such has been the progress Of sectional feeling,
that mutual exchange of opinion between the
North and the South has become indispensable to
quiet the public mind and restore mutual confidence
and good will.
With this view, it is proposed topublsh in New
York and Washington City, daily and weekly
n ewspaper, in which the ablest writers Of both
sections may present the facts and arguments upon
which they rely, in support of the interests and
institutions Of each, under the hope that such a
paper, conducted with fairness, moderation, and
candor, and with an earnest desire to subdue Sec
tonal prejudice, will obtain extensive circulation,
and exert beneficial influence.
Part of the plan is to invite, by an offer OF pre-
mIums, prize essays on the subjects of British
Abolition, British Commerce, British Finance,
British Banking, and British Diplomacy, and also
on the American Tariff, American Commerce,
American Banks, American Currency, and fri
can Slavery. These questions, it is hoped will
put in requistion the ablest pens of the whole
country, and give to ''THE MEDIUM" an interest
and character which will secure for it a support
commensurate with the expenditure necessarily
incurred
As the machinery of commerce and of credit is
now organized, our Banks and our Currency are
the weaker parts Of the British system, and the
ruinous effects of the expansions and contractions
of the British Currency, caused by Overradng and
speculations of the British people and British
Bankers, necessarily produce ruinous expansions
and contractions of our Currency, which enable
British fnancIers, by the Of their credit, with
out an advance of capital, to levy upon us enorm-
GUS sums in the shape of profits on exchange, in
teres tand commissions, inficting at the same time
severe losses by greatly deprecatng the value of
our labor and property.
"THE MEDIUM" will advocate modification Of
the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies, to authorize contracts for the
perpetual Of Railroads upon the payment of
an amount of five per cent. coupon bonds, charge
able on the revenues Of the Department, upon
which the interest, at six per cent, would be
equal to the quarterly payments made under ex-
listing laws Ii will further advocate general
system of free banking, under State laws, on de-
posts Of bonds Of the federal or State govern
ment, and, under proper guarantees and restric-
tons, on deposits Of Railroad securities because
such a system would make the large sums in
vested in Railroads available as capital, and give
q cheap, abundant and staple currency, and ena-
bic the farmer and the planter to obtain remu
nerating prices at home, instead ofbeing compelled
as they now are, to send the products of their
labor to the British market, to he sold there by
British agents at British prices /; and because
such modification of the laws regulating mail
contracts, and such system of currency aided
by such a modification of the tariff as will prevent
fraud in the customs, and encourage our own in
dustry, would consolidate the interests Of the
whole country, and abate sectional prejudice by
officiating the lines that had heretofore created it..
"THE MEDIUM" will not be a party paper, but re-
publican and independent, treating men, measures
and parties with searching scutiny, guarding
with jealous vigilance the interest Of the people
of the United States against the dangerous infu-
ence Of British Financiers and British Diplomacy
TERMS.
=, The price. of THE MEDIUM will be-
lars per annum for the Weekly, with reasonable
deduction to the Trade, to Clubs, and to Agents
March 8.