The daily republic., 1853-08-26
PROSPECTUS
WADfIINGTON eENTIN
OF THK

o. THE
WARRINGTON 1ENTINEL.
r PROPOSE 70 publish IN the city Of Washing.
4 ton. in September. political Newspaper. un-
der the name Of the WasAingto. Ss.stss!
4. In doing 20 IT il proper l should make known
the principles it viii maintain and the policy It
will advocate.
It will support cordially y and earnestly the priu-
01pies ,r o. the Democratic Republicans party n IL
OF any department of the Government, except in
30 far ~ an independent maintenance of the doc
rines Of that party may represent its opn ions and
express it, views.
1t will not be ambitious 60 commend itself to the
people by blind fattery of their rulers. IL will
seek public support by the bold Avowal of the sem
tments which are common to the genuine Democ-
racy Of the Union. and by the condemnation Of
all such as may conflict with them, from what
ever quarter they may como. 1t will Geek 70 bo
(and 1t will endeavor to deserve the tt'e) the or
gan of the Democratic party Of the United States.
The Sentinel will maintain, fundamental
truth Of that great party. that the States formed
the Union between them by the ratification OF the
Constitution as compact; BY which also tney
created the Federal Government. and de'eEAsco 10
it, as their common agent, the powcrs expressiy
specified in it, with explicit reservation OF all
others to the States, to their separate govern
ments. The exercise of any powers beyond those
thus delegated is therefore an usurpation OF the
reserved authority of the States by the agent OF
their own creation. s
The Sentinel will uphold and defend the Union
upon the basis Of the rights Of the States-under
the Constitution-and thus by sedu'oosly guard
ing the latter it will the more etectually strength
en- and perpetuats the former.
With regard to the exercise of the pOwers OF the
Federal Government. the Sentinel will take 40 the
principles Of is action that Congress shati exer-
cse no power which has not been delegated ny the
Constitution, according TO strict and fair inter-
probation OF its language and epirit; and that t
shaIi seek to attain indirectly object through
the OF constitutional Dotctr for the asrec1
ttnip puf Of vuh m no
In other words. all powers exercised must be clear
ly granted, and all granted powers Tnust be used
for no purpose except such as ia clearly intended
by the Constitution E4
In respect to The internal administration Of the
Government the Sentinel will sustain the settled
policy of the Democratic party. II Will labor 70
inculcate this cardinal doctrine OF Democratic IN
ternal policy-that this Government will best pro-
mote the freedom and prosperity Of the people of
the States by being less ambitious to exercise pow
er and more anx'ous TO preserve hoerty; ana oy
leaving TO the individual States the management
of all their domestic cOnceTns-while 1t contents
itself with guarding the Contederacy from exter-
nal violence, and directing the foreign policy OF
the country to the promotion Of the common inter-
ests and defence of the common rights and honor
of the States composing it,
The Sentinel will advocate such progressive
foreign policy as will suit itself to the exigencies
and correspond with the expanding interests OF
the country That policy should he energetic and
decided; but should temper hrmness with hberali
ty, and make its highest ends consist with the
strctest rinciples of justice. The real interests
of the country upon each occasion demanding al
tenton will be ts guide in the course the Se"f'nel
will pursue.
The national policy of the world in this age is
essentially aggressive. In the growing sense OF
weakness Of some Of the nations of the Old World
and the ambitious restlessness of others, a common
motive to colonial extension has developed itself.
Our settled determination to repel interference
from abroad with our own domestic concerns Will
prompt to avoid it in the affairs OF other conn
r. t,SoI~ lev
peace should be threatened, our security endan-
gered, or our interests invaded. For when the
selfish interests Of other nations prompt foreign
or colonial policy which iniringes upon our rights
and places in the pathway of our commerce dan
gerous and unfriendly rival, snch policy must be
resisted by remonstrance, and II need be by war.
Our foreign policy should indeed be defensive;
but to be properly dsfensiue II must sometimes oe
apparently Aggressive. Our Administration should
be vigilant, watchiul, and energetic. The world
is full Of important movements, commercial and
political, deeply concerning American trade and
American power 1t IS time we nao an american
foreign policy. We must have it. We cannot
avoid it if we would. We have larger interests
and a greater stake in the world and its destiny
then every other people. We occupy the best por
tion of continent, with no nelghoors oot COLO
nv and a worn out anarchical despotisln. We
are the only people whose own land, without colo
nial dependencies, is washed by the two great
oceans of the world. Our agricultural produc-
tone are more varied and more esse ntlai to civil
manufacturing resources more vast-our facilities
and capacity for internal and foreign commerce
more extended than those OF any other people liv-
ing under one government. A continent to great
extent unexplored and exhaustless in its yet bid
den wealth is at our feet. European trade seeks
the great East through avenues which are at our
doors, or must be made through our own hmlts.
Europe Asia Africa and the isles OF the sea. lying
all around us, look to US as the rising power,
through the agency of whoee example, and ever
widening and extending, though peaceful infiu-
ences the blessings of liberty, civilization and re-
ligion, are destned to triumph over the barbarian
and superstition of the millions OF the world And
shall such n people refuse to lay hold upon their
destiny and act upon the high mission to which it
is called? mission 30 fuil OF nope though 60
laden with responsibility, which, if properly di-
rected must make our Confedcracy the harbinger
Of peace to the world well as the peaceful arbi-
ter of lts destiny.
earnest foreign policy, such as the condition OF the
country demands, but it will advocate it under the
flag Of the country-no~ here else lie foreign pol-
cy must be consistent with the spotless honor and
unimpeachabe good faith of the country. To be
respectable home and abroad, and to be great in
the eyes of the world, it must ask for nothing but
what right and submit to nothing that is wrong.
1t must be liberal and magnanimous to the rights
of others and firm and immovabe in insisting on
it's own 1t must, in fine, be true to its own inter-
eats, rights and honor--t cannot then be false TO
those of other nations,
Such, then, ia the chart by which shall be
guided Independent and free, we shall endeavor
10 be honest and truthful. The true friends o
Democratic principles, we shall cordially eupport
and defend. Isenemies in the field ambush
we shall oppose, and on all proper occasions de-
nounce.
To our future brethren of the press we extend
the hand OF friendly greeting. The Sentinel is the
rival of no press OF it's own party-the personal
enemy of none of the other.
The present Democratic Administration has our
best wishes for it's success in the esta olshment of
the great principles upon which 1t came into pow
err; and in its honest labors to attain such end
twill find the Sentinel its friend and coadjutor.
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