The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-05
PROSPECTUS or nrHE nEDIun,p

A Newspaper 10 be published Daily and Week.,
IN Ne0 York and Washington Ciy.
Sueh mas been the progress of sectional feeling
tnas mutual exchange of opinion between the
worm ana NE South has become Indispensable %
quiet the public mind and restore mutual confdene.
and good will
Win thus view, 1t is proposed to publish in New
! York and Washington City, daily and weekly
| N ewspaper, IN which the ablest writers OF both
sections may present the facts and argumenta unon
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 see
tional prejudice, will obtain extensive circulation
aud exert beneficial influence.
Fart of the plan Is 10 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 A fri
can slavery. These questions, IL Is hoped will
put IN requlsltlon the abest pens of the whole
country, and give to ''THE MEDIUM an interest
ana character which will secure for il a support
commensurate with the expenditure necessarily
incurred.
AS the machinery of commerce aud 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
oil the British Currency, caused by overradng and
speculatlons of the British people and British
Bankers, necessarily produce ruinous expansions
and contractions of our Currency, which enable
British hnanciers. by the 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, inhlcting at the same time
severe losses by greatly deprecating the value of
our labor and property.
The MEDIUM" will advocate modification of
the laws regulating mail contracts with Railroad
Companies, 30 as TO authorize contracts for the
perpetual use 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 or State govern
ment, and, under proper guarantees and restric-
uons, on deposits of Railroad securities because
such a system would make the large sums in
vested In Railroads available capital, and give
cheap, abundant and staple currency, and ena-
BILE the farmer and the planter to obtain remu-
neratlng prices at home instead OF being 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
obterating the lines that had here tofore 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 people
of the United States against the dangerous inAu-
ence of British Financiers and British Diplomacy.
TERMS
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.