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


WASHINGTON SENTINEL.
II PROPOSE to publish in the city Of Washing
i ton, In September. political newspaper, un-
der the name Of the Washington Sentinel
the principles it will maintain and the policy il
will advocate.
1t will support cordially and earnestly the prin-
ciples OF the Democratic Republicon party If the
Of any department of the Government, except in
80 far as an independent maintenance Of the doc
rines Of that party may represent its opin and
express its views.
il will not be ambitious to commend itself to the
people by blind hattery Of their rulers. 1t will
seek public support by the bold avowal Of the sen
timents which are common to the genuine Denoc-
racy Of the Union, and by the condemnation of
ever quarter they may come. 1t will geek to be
(and it will endeavor to deserve the ttle) the
gan OF the Democratic party of the United States.
| The Senhnel will maintain, as fundamental
truth OF that great party, that the States formed
| the Union between them by the ratification Of the
Constitution "a a compact; by which also they
created the Federal Government, and delegated to
it, as their common agent, the powers expressly
specified in it, with an explicit reservation of all
others to the States, to their separate govern
ments. The exercise Of any powers beyond those
thus delegated is therefore usurpation of the
reserved authority Of the States by the agent of
| their own creation.
The Sentinel will uphold and defend the Union
upon the basis of the rights of the States--under
the Constitutions thus by seduloosy guard
ing the latter ii will the more etiectually strength
en- and perpetuate the former.
! With regard to the exercise of the powers oft
Federal Government, the Sentinel will take as the
principles of its action that Congress shall exer-
else no power which has not been delegated by the
Constitution, according to strict and fair inter-
probation OF its language and spirit; and that Il
shall not seek to attain Indirectly object through
the exercise of constitutional p0tcey for the direct
attainment OF which it has obligation Of potoer.
In other words all powers exercised must be clear
ly granted, and all granted powers must be used
Tor no purpose except such as ia clearly intended
by the Constitution.
/ In respect TO the internal administration Of the
Government the Sentinel will sustain the settled
policy OF the Democratic party. 1t will labor to
nculcate this cardinal doctrine Of Democratic in
ternal polcy--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 TO the individual States the management
of all their d0mestic concerns-while it contents
itself with guarding the Confederacy from extcr
mol 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
the country That policy should be energetic and
decided; but should temper frmness with liberal-
ty, and make it's highest ends consist with the
strictest rnciples of justice. The real interests
d :
tention will be it's guide in the course the Sentinel
will pursue.
The national policy of the world in this age is
essentially aggressive. In the growing sense OF
wea knees 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 US to avoid 1t in the affairs of other CO I'm
tries, unless BY their foreign colonial policy our
peace ehould be threatened, our security endan-
gered, or our interests invaded. For when the
selfish intereets of other nations prompt foreign
or colonial policy which infrnges upon our rights
and places in the pathway of our commerce dan
gerous and unfriendly rival, such policy must be
resisted by remonstrance, and if need be by war.
Our foreign policy should indeed be defensive;
but to be properly dsfensipe it must sometimes be
apparently 0ggyessiue. Our Administration should
be vigiiant, watchful, and energetic. The world
loiI o. important movements, commercial and
political, deeply concerning American trade and
| American power. 1t is time we had an American
foreign policy. We must have it. We cannot
avoid it if we would. We have larger interests
than every other people. We occupy the best pof-
ton of continent with neighbors but colo
ny and worn out anarchical despotisni. We
are the only people whose own land, without colo
NAL dependencies, ID washed by the two great
oceans Of the world. Our agricultural produc-
tons are more varied and more essential to civil
lied lie and to human prOgress-our mineral and
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. continent to great
extent unexplored and exhaustless in its yet hid
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 limits.
Europe, Asia Africa, and the isles the sea, lying
all around us, look to us ns the rising power
through the agency of whose example, and ever
widening and extending, though peaceful infiu-
ences, the blessings of liberty, civilization and re-
hgion, are destined to triumph over the barbarian
and superstition of the millions of the world And
shall such people refuse to lay hold upon their
destiny and act upon the high mission to which il
is called? mission full of hope, though go
laden with responsibility, which. if properly di-
rected, nust make our Confederacy the harbipger
of peace to the world as well as the peaceful arbi-
ter of its destiny.
The Sentinel will, therefore, advocate bold and
earnest foreign policy, such the condition of the
country demands, but it will advocate it under the
flag Of the cotntrynow here else. Its foreign poll
cy must be consistent with the spotlesa honor and
unimpeachable good faith of the country. To be
respectable at home and abroad, and to be great in
the eyes OF the world, it must ask for nothing but
what is right and submit to nothing that is wrong
II must be liberal and magnanimons to the rights
Of others, and firm and immovabc in insisting on
its own. 1t must, in fine be true to its own inter
ests, rights, and honor-it 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, shall cordially support
and defend. Itsenemes in the field or in ambush
we shall oppose, and on all proper occasions de-
| nounce.
To our future brethren of the prcss we extend
the hand Of friendly greeting The Sentinel ia The
rival of no press of it's own party-the personal
enemy of none of the other.
| The present Democratic Administration has our
beat wshes for it's success in the esa 5lisbment of
the great principles upon which it came into pow
err; and in ta honest labors to attain such an end
twill find the Sentinel its friend and coadjutor.
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