Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-04-12
THE DAILY AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
OUR SECOND YEAR,

| One year ago this day was issued Nthe first
number of the AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. We were
then assured by many intelligent citizens Of Wash
ington that it had already been fully demon
strated that such paper could not live here,
| and that ours could not exist three months !;
| while cautious men of business assured us that
| If we should succeed in sustaining it, then they
| would give their support The predictions
of the former have proved baseless-the wish
| that was father to the thought has not been re-
allied and the promises of the latter have not
been redeemed. su.a
Cut off from all hopes of thtskind of patronage
| on which other papers of this city fatten-en-
| countering the overwhelming competition of Wash
ington papers supported by the government pa
! tronage and the newspapers of Baltimore, that
derive their support from a commercial and man
| ufacturing population of one hundred and eighty
thousand persons-proscrib0d i'll official places
avoided by timid men in ofice-opposed by the
concerted influence of n portion of respect
able religious communion, upon pretext en-
trely baseless-without the influence in the
community of connexions and friends to defend
US from the aa1pit opposition of interested COM
| petitors,-we Nave yet maintained our position,
and to-day stand before our fellow citizens pre-
pared to serve them faithfully, fearlessly, and
independently.
f We have no favors to ask We have respect
nifty and intend to merit theirs in return. But
we shall not do this by fattering their follies,
appealing to their sympathies. When such a
course this becomes necessary to insure
cess, we shall not be ashamed to fail. But until
it does, our path shall lie onward and upward
We will neither fail nor falter.
Now for few familiar words. Why do We not
sell our paper rs cheap rs the Baltimore papers
are sold? is the frequent question. We reply,
not in Rol h q
mercal city of one hundred and eighty thousand
people can yield an amount Of advertising Gus
| tom not to be obtained in community of forty
thousand people aeho do their shopping in Bali
more,
! Do their shopping in Baltimore! Yes by
wilful and unreasonable opposition to the only
cheap paper of their own that ever could survive
their sights the business men Of Washington give
all the aid in their power to promote the interests
Of Baltimore merchants here. The Baltimore
papers contain Baltimore advertisements land the
people of Washington compile their memoranda
, from such advertisements, send their orders to
Baltimore, obtain their goods there and thus
make our own storekeepers pay well-merited
penalty.
Would we prescribe the papers of Baltimore
BY no means. We regard the morning as fat and
dull that does not bring them to us We are
willing to encourage their circulation here They
should bring light and knowledge to every home
and place of business throughout our whole city
Every one should rejoice in the facilities
they afford. But the extensive circulation
of a Washington afternoon paper, with the
advertisements of Washington business peo-
pie, should preserve us from the temptation Of
sending to Baltimore for those commodities which
can rs well be obtained in Washington. II was
with special reference to this that we commenced
an afternoon paper. We knew the advantages
offered by the penny press Of Batimore---we APP
preciated them fully; we did not wish to come
in conflict with them We intended not to cross
the path of those journals; and we believed our
purposes would be approved by our own people.
BY many they have; but not by al So far
from this, we seriously doubt (cali it egotism if
you will } that there is another man in Washing
ton who would have chung to an enterprise as
the writer of this has adhered to that upon which
he had embarked-laboring without present re-
= compense, and with but feeble hope for the fu-
y ture; and even, from bitter necessity submitting
s to transtory public misapprehension of his
L true position in particulars of the most serious
IS moment.
e But away with the past. The present around
If us, and the prospect before, are what now CON
d Germ us We have no revenges-no regrets We
g have no enemies that we know of, and care not :
,f dime for any that are unknown. We intend q
,f labor ON, to improve with increasing means. /,
= stand by our friends, to make them many, Il
4 stlfie no sentiment, to sacrifice no opinion, Il
!, conciliate no bigot, to fatter no money-worship
Z per, to bow before official upstart, to sanction
! no public or private wrong and in general to liy
|, honestly, soberly Economically, and peaceaby
= and die only when our time shall have come.
= II, therefore, any of our fellow-citizens shal
y feel inclined to give kind words of encourage
u ment, and to render us kindly aid, Mt the com
0 mencement of this our second year, we cordial,
2 invite them to our office We will greet them a
d the threshold with friendly welcome, endeavo
to make n good return for nil the benefits W,
!, shall receive at their hands, and preserve then
: from all future regrets that such has been theil
: course.
MARCH "a 1859