The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-06
PROSPECTUS or "THE MEDIUM.
A Newspaper % be published Daily and Week
ia Nelo York and Washington Ciiy

A Newspaper % be published Daily and Weekly
ia 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 to publish in New
York and Washington City, daily and weekly
Newspaper, in which the ablest writer's 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
paper, conducted with fairness, moderation, and
candor, and with 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-
mums, 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 Afi-
can Slavery. These questions, il is hoped will
put in requisition the ablest pens of the whole
country, and give to ''THE medium" an interest
and character which will secure for it 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 contractons
of the British Currency, caused by overtrading and
speculations of the British people and British
Bankers. necessarily produce ruinous expansions
and contractons of our Currency, which enable
British fnanciers. by the use 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, infictng at the same time
severe losses by greatly depreciatiDg the value OF
/ our labor and property.
"THE MEDIUM" will advocate modification OF
the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies, SO as to authorize contracts for the
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an amount of five per cent. coupon bonds, charge.
| able on the revenues of the Department, upor
which the interest, at six per cent, would bs
1 equal to the quarterly payments made under ex
listing laws. 1t will further advocate genera
system of free banking, under State laws, on de
posts Of bonds of the federal or Stale govern
/ ment, and, under proper guarantees and restric
tons, on deposits of Railroad securities because
such system would make the large sums in
| vested in Railroads available capital, and give
cheap, abundant and staple currency, and ena.
4 BILE the farmer and the planter to obtain remu.
nerating prices at home, instead ofbeng compelled
i as they now are, to send the products of their
labor to the British market, to be sold there by
British agents at British prices and because
such modification of the laws regulating mai
contracts, and such system Of currency aided
by such 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
obterating the lines that had heretofore created it
"THE MEDIUM" will not be party paper, but re
publican and independent, treating men, measures
and parties with searching scutiny, guarding
with jealous vigilance the interest Of the peopl,
Of the United States against the dangerous inAu
ence Of British Financiers and British Diplomacy
i TERMS.
4 The price of "THE MEDIUM" will be-
Two Gents per copy for the Daily, and Two Dol
lars per annum for the Weekly, with REASONABLE,
deduction to the Trade, to Clubs, and to Agents
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