The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-30
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
WASHINGTON SENTINEL.

PROSPECTUS
OF THE
WASHINGTON SENTINEL.
r PROPOSE to publish In the city of Washing
i ton, In September. political newspaper, I'M
der the name OF the Warrington Sentinel
In doing 20 u Is proper l should make known
the principles it will maintain and the policy it
will advocate
1t will support cordially and earnestly the prin
ciples OF the Democratic Republican party Of the
United States. II does not propose to be the organ
Of any department of the Government, except in
so far a. an independent maintenance of the doc
trnes OF that party may represent its opin ions and
express it's views.
1t will not be ambitious to commend itself to the
people BY blind iattery of their rulers. 1t will
seek public support by the bold avowal Of tire sen
timents 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 come. 1t will seek to be
(and II VIII endeavor to deserve the ttle) the
gan OF the Democratic party of the United States.
The Sentinel will maintain as a 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 they
it, as their common agent, the powers expressly
specified in IT, with explicit reservation of all
others to the States, or to their separate govern
mcnts. Inc exercise OF any powers beyond those
thus delegated 10 therefore usurpaton 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 Constitution thus by sedolously guard
ing the latter it will the efectualiy strength
en- and perpetuatc the former.
With regard to the exercise Of the powers of the
Federal Government, the Sentinel will take as the
principles OF lts 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
mi nj far he
attainment OF which it has delegation of pOtDer
In other words, all powers exercised must be clear
| ly granted, and all granted powers must be used
for no purpose except such is 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
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 moro anxious to preserve liberty; and by
leaving to the individual States the management
Of all their domestic c0ncerns-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 a progressive
foreign policy as will suit itself to the exigencies
and correspond with the expanding interests of
the country. That policy should be energetic and
decided; but should temper frmness with lberali-
| ty, and make its highest ends coneist with the
strictest rinciples of justice. The real interests
Of the country upon each occasion demanding at
tention will be its 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, common
motive 10 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 our
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, such policy must be
| resisted by remonstrance, 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 watchiui, and energetic. The world
is full of important movements, commercial and
political, deeply concerning American trade and
American power. 1t ia time we had an American
foreign policy. We must have it, We cannot
avoid il if we would We have larger interests
and greater stake in the world and it's destiny
than every other people. We occupy the best por-
ton of continent, with no neighbors but colo
ny and worn out anarchica despotism. We
are the only people whose own land, without colo
NAL dependencies, is washed by the two great
oceans Of the world. Our agricultural produc
tons more varied and moro essential to civil
lied life and to human progress-our mineral and
man ufacturing 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 unex plorcd and exhnustless in its yet hid
| den wealth is ut our feet. European trade seeks
the great East through avenues which are at our
doors, must be made through our own limits.
Europe, Asia, Africa, and the isles OF the sea, lying
all around us, look to us 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-
lgion, are destined to triumph over the barbarian
and superstition of the millions of the world. And
shall such people refuse to lay hold upon thei
destiny and act upon the high mission to which il
is called? A mission so full of hope, though et
I laden with responsibility, which, if properly di
rected, must make our Confederacy the harbinge
of peace to the world well as the peaceful arbi
ter of Its destiny.
The Sentinel will, therefore, advocate a bold and
earnest foreign policy, such the condition of the
try demands, but it will advocate 1t under the
flag of the country-nowhere else. lite foreign poll
cy must be consistent with the spotless honor and
unimpeuchable good faith OF the country. 10 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 ia wrong.
1t must be liberal and magnanimous to the rights
of others, and firm and immovable In insisting on
it's own II 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 snail De
guided. Independent and free, we shali endeavor
to be honest and truthful. The true friends OF
Democratic principles shall cordially support
and defend Itsenemies 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 it's own party-thc personal
enemy of none of the other.
The present Democratic Administration has our
heat wi fri ta
the great principles upon which it came into pow.
err: and in its honest abors to attain such an end