The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-06
PROSPECTUS
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SENTINEL,

r. PROPOSE To pubsh ia the city of Washing
i ton, in September. political Newspaper, I'M
der the name Of the Wilmington Ssntins!
In doing 90 it 10 proper ] should make known
the principles it will maintain and the policy it
will advocate.
1t will support cordial and earnestly the prin-
cipes OF the Democratic Republicans party Of the
Unsfsd States. il does not propose to be the organ
Of any department of the Government, except in
80 far as an independent maintenance of the doc
trines OF that party may represent opinions ana
express its views.
1t VIII not be ambitious 10 commend itself to the
people by blind fattery Of their rulers: IL VIII
seek public support by the bold avowal OF tEesen
uments which are common 10 the genuine Dethoo
racy OF the Union, and by the condemnation o.
all such as may conflict with them. from wna'
ever quarter thew may como. II will seek to be
(and il will endeavor to deserve the utle) tue or
gan Of the Democratic party OF the United states
The Sentinel will maintain as iunaamentai
truth OF that great party. that the States formed
the Union between them by the ratification OF the
Constitution compact; by which also they
created the Federal Government, and delegated to
il, as their common agent, the powers expressly
speciiied in il, with explicit reservation Of all
others to the States, or 10 their separate govern
ments. The exercise of any powers beyond those
thus delegated is therefore uaurpation of the
reserved authority of the States by the gent OF
their own creation.
The Sentinel will uphold and defend the Union
upon the basis of the rights of the States-under
the Constitoton--and thus by sedulously guard
en- and perpctuate the former. w
With regard TO the exercise of the powers of the
Federal Government, the Sentinel will take as the
principles OF its action that Congress shall
else no power which has not been delegated by the
Constitution, according to D strict and fair inter
probation OF Its language and spirit; and that i
shall not seek TO attain indirectly object through
the exercise OF constitutional potcey for the direct
attainment OF which il has delegation Of po,oer
In other words. all powers exercised must be clear
~ granted, and all granted powers must be used
Tor no purpose except such as is clearly intended
by the Constitution,
In respect 10 the internal administration of the
Government the Sentinel will sustain the settled
policy of the Democratic party. II will labor to
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 anxious to preserve liberty; and by
leaving 10 the individual States the management
OF all their domestic concerns-while it contents
itself with guarding the Confederacy 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 will suit itself to the exgencies
and correspond with the expanding interests of
the country That policy should be energetic and
decided; but should temper hrmness with liberali-
ty, and make Its highest ends consist with the
strictest rincpes of justice. The real interests
OF the country upon each occasion demanding at
tention will be its guide in the the Sentinel
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, 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 co un
tries, unless by their foreign colonial policy
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 infringes upon our rights
and places In the pathway of our commerce dan
gerous and unfriendly rival, snch policy must be
resisted by remopstrance, and if need be by war
Our foreign policy should indeed be defensive;
but to be properly defensive it must sometimes be
apparently aggressive Our Administration should
be vigilant, watchful, and energetic. The world
political, deeply concerning American trade and
American power. 1t ia time we had an American
foreign policy. We must have it. We cannot
avoid 1t If we would. We have larger interests
than every other people. We occupy the best Dor
ton OF continent, with no neighbors but a colo
ny and a worn out anarchcaT despotism We
are the only people whose own land, without cole
NAL dependencies, is washed by the two great
oceans of the world. Our agricultural prodnc
tons are more varied and more sential to civil
lied life and to human progress-our mineral and
manufacturing resources more vast-our facilities
more extended than those of any other people iiy-
ing under one government. A continent to great
extent unexpiored and exhaustless in it's vet hid
den wealth 10 at our feet. European trade seeks
the great East through avenues which are at our
doors, or must be made through our own limits
Europe, Asia, Africa and the ises of the sea WING
all around us, look to as the rising power.
through the agency of whose example, and ever
widening and extending, though peaceful inf1u-
ences, the blessings Of liberty, civilization, and re-
hgon, are destined to triumph over the bar bariem
and superstition of The millions of the world And
snail such people refuse to lay hold upon their
destiny and act upon the high mission to which it
is caledt mission 30 full of hope, though 90
laden with responsibility, which, if properly di-
rected, must make our Coniederacy the ha rbinger
oil peace to the world as well as the peaceful arb
ter of it5 destiny.
The Sentinel will, therefore, advocate bold ana
earnest foreign policy, such as the condition of the
country demands, but it will advocate il under The
flag Of The country-now here else. Its foreign poll
cy must be consistent with the spotess honor and
unlmpeachable good faith of the country To be
respectable at home and abroad, and to be great in
the coes OF the world, it must ask for nothing but
what ia right and submit to nothing That ia wrono
1t must be liberal and magnanimous to the rights
of others, and firm and immovable in insisting on
its own. IL must, in fine, be true to its inter
ests, rights, and honorit cannot then be false TO
those OF other nations
Such, then, is the chart by which we shall be
guided. Independent and free, we shall endeavor
TO be honest and truthful. The true friends Of
Democratic principles, we shall cordially support
and defend. Isenemies in the field or IN 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 its own party-the personal
enemy Of none of the other.
The present Democratic Administration has our
beet wishes for it's success in the esta 5lishment of
the great principles upon which, came into pow
er; and in its honest abors to attain such an end
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