The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-07
PROSPECTUS or "THE MEDIUM

Il Newspaper b be published Daily and Weetly
"a Neto York and Washington Cuy.
ouch mas eeen the progress OF sectional feeling,
sna' a mutual exchange Of opinion between the
Norsh ana Tue South has become indispensable to
quiet the public mind and restore mutual coincidence
and good will.
w ith THIS view, II ID proposed to publish in New
| York and Washington City, a daily and weekly
| n ewspaper, IN which the abest writers of botL
sections may present the facts and arguments unon
which they rely, IN support OF the interests and
institutions of EACH under the hope that suah-n
paper, conducted with fairness, moderation, and
candor, and with earnest desire TO subdue sec-
tional prejudice, Will obtain extensive circulation,
and exert beneficial influence.
Part of the plan s TO invite, by on offer of pre-
mums, prize essays ON the subjects of British
Abolition, British Commerce, British Finance,
British Banking, and British Diplomacy, and aao
on the American Tariff American Commerce,
American Banks, American Currency, and Air-
can Slavery. These questions, ii Is hoped viii
put IN requisitou the abest pens of the whole
country, and give to ''1HE MtpIum" AN interest
and character which will secure for il 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 contractions
OF the British Currency, caused by overtradng and
Bankers, necessarily produce ruinous expansions
and contractions of our Currency, which enable
British hnancers. 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, INJECTING at the same time
severe losses by greatly depreciating the value of
our labor and property.
The MEDIUM" will advocate a modification Of
the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies, so as to authorize contracts for the
perpetual of Railroads upon the payment of
an amount of five 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-
listing laws. IL will further advocate a general
system OF free banking, under State laws, on de-
posts OF bonds OF the federal State govern
ment, and under proper guarantees and restrc-
TONS, 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-
nerating prlcesat home, instead ofbeng compelled
as they now are, to send the products of their
labor to the British market, to he sold there by
British agents at British prices and because
such 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
oberang the lines that had heretofore created it,
9 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 people
of the United States against the dangerous indu-
ence of British Financiers and British Diplomacy.
TERMS
The price Of "THE MEDIUM" will be-
Two Centsper 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.