The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-21
PROSPECTUS or 1.-THE nEDIun,.


A Newspaper 10 be published Daily and Weskls
] in Nelo York and Washington Guy.
such has been the progress of sectional feeling,
mat 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 thls view, IL is proposed to publish in New
| York and Washington City, daily and weekly
Newspaper, 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
paper, conducted with fairness, moderation, and
candor, and with all earnest desire TO subdue
uonal prejudice, will obtain extensive CIRCULATION,
and exert beneficial influence.
Part of the plan is to invite, by offer OF pre-
mlums, 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 requisiton the ablest pens of the whole
country, and give to "IHE 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
rulnous effects OF the expansions and contractons
OF the British Currency, caused by overtrading and
specuIations of the British people and British
Bankers necessarily produce ruinous expansions
and contractlons 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, inficting at the same time
severe losses by greatly depreciating the value of
our labor and property.
"IHE MEDIUM" will advocate a modification of
| the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies SO as TO authorize contracts for the
perpetual use of Railroads upon the payment of
an amount OF hive 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-
isting laws. IL will further advocate general
system of free banking, under State laws, on de-
posts OF bonds of the federal State govern
ment, and, under proper guarantees and restric-
lions, on deposits of Railroad securities because
such system would make the large sums in
vested IN Railroads available as capital, and give
cheap, abundant and staple currency, and ena-
BILE the farmer and the planter TO obtain remu
neratlng pricesat home, instead being compelled
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 a modification of the laws regulating mail
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
celebrating the lines that had heretofore created it,
"IHE 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 inhu-
ence of British Financiers and British Diplomacy.
TERMS.
The price of "THE MEDIUM" will be-
Two Cents per copy for the Daily, and Two Dol
llars g,u
deduction to the Trade, to Clubs, and to Agents
March 8.