The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-03
Prospectus OF srHE MEDIUM.

A Newspaper 10 be published Daily and Weekly
in Nev York and Washington Ciiy.
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. ~ $500 .
With this view, it is proposed topublish in New
York and Washington City, daily and weekly
IN 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 Afri-
can Slavery. These questions, il is hoped will
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 commeice and of credit ID
now organized, our Banks and our Currency are
the weaker parts OF the British system, and the
ruinous effects of the expansions and contractions
speculations of the British people and British
Bankers, necessarily produce runous expansion,
and contractons of our Currency, which enabl,
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, inlicting at the same tins
severe losses by greatly deprecating the value o.
our labor and property
"THE MEDIUM" will advocate modification o.
the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies, SO as to authorize contracts for tbt
perpetual use of Railroads upon the payment o
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 bt
equal to the quarterly payments made under ex
listing laws II will further advocate a genera
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
cheap, abundant and staple currency, and ena
BILE the farmer and the planter to obtain remu
nerating prices at home, instead ofbeing compelled
as they now are, to send the products Of then
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 proven
fraud in the customs, and encourage our own in
dustry, would consolidate the interests of III,
whole country, and abate sectional prejudice by
obliteratng 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 peop,
of the United States against the dangerous inAu
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
lars per annum for the Weekly with REASONABLE
deduction to the Trade, to Clubs, and to Agents
March 8.