Daily American telegraph., 1852-05-06
rHg Daily AxrHfoAs TELEGRAPH.
nuR sECONp YEAH :


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 a paper could not live here,
and that ours could not exist three months
while cautious men of business assured us that
il we should succeed in sustaining it, then they
would give us 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.
Cut of from all hopes of the kind Of patronage
on which other papers of this city fatten-en-
countering the overwhelming competition ofWash-
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-proscribod in official places
avoided by timid men in office-opposed by the
concerted influence Of portion of a respect
able religious communion, upon a pretext en-
tirely baseess-without the influence in the
community of connexions and friends to defend
US from the adroit opposition of interested COM
petitors,--we have yet maintained our position,
and to-day stand before our fellow citizens pre-
pared to serve thom faithfully fearlessly, and
Independently
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, or
| appealing to their sympathies. When such a
course as this becomes necessary to insure sue
cess, we shall not be ashamed to fail. But until
it does our path shall lie onward and upward.
| We will neither fail nor fater.
! Now for few familiar words. Why do we not
sell our paper as cheap as the Baltimore papers
are sold? is the frequent question. We reply,
Because we are not in Observation-Disclosures a COM
mercial 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 who do their shopping in Bali-
more!
Do their shopping in Baltimore! Yes, by a
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 and 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 Inherited
penalty.
Would we prescribe the papers of Baltimore
1 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 should rejoice in the facilities
they afford. But the extensive circulation
of Washington afternoon paper, with the
advertisements Of Washington business peo-
pie, should preserve from the temptation of
sending to Baltimore for those commodities which
can as well be obtained in. Washington 1t was
with special reference to this that we commenced
an afternoon paper. We knew the advantages
offered by the penny press of Baltimore-we ap-
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 all So far
from this we seriously doubt (call it egotism if
you will y 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
compensc, and with but feeble hope for the fu-
turo; aud even, from bitter necessity, submitting
to a ransitory public misapprehension of his
true position in particulars Of the most serious
moment.
But away With the past The present around
Us, and the prospect before, are what now con-
Germ US We have no reyenges-no regrets. We
have enemies that we know of, and care not
dime for any that are unknown. We intend to
labor on, to improve with increasing means, to |
stand by our friends, to make them many, to |
stfc no sentiment, to sacrifice no opinion, TO |
concilate no bigot, to datter no money worship
per, to bow before official upstart to sanction
no public or private wrong, and in general to live
honestly, soberly, Economically, and peaceably,
and die only when our time shall have come.
If, therefore, any Of our fellow-citzens shall
feel inclined to give US kind words of encourage
ment and to render US kindly aid, at the com
mcncement Of this second year, we cordially
invite them to our Office We will greet them at
the threshold with friendly welcome, endeavor
| to make a good return for all the benefits we
shall receive at their hands, and preserve them
from all future regrets that such has been their
' course.
MARCH "a 1852.