The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-03
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
WASHINGTON SENTINEL.


r PROPOSE to publish in the city of Washing
i ton, in September political newspaper, un
der the name of the Warrington Sentinel
In doing go it is proper should make known
the principles it will maintain and the policy i
will advocate.
1t will support cordially and earnestly the prin
ciples OF the Democratic Republican party Of tn
United States. II does not propose to be- the organ
of any department OF the Government, except II
30 far as an independent maintenance of the doc
trnes Of that party may represent its opn ions anc
express its views.
1t will not be ambitious to commend itself to tht
people by blind hattery Of their rulers 1t viii
seek public support by the bold avowal Of the sen
timents which are common to the genuine Democ
racy Of the Union, and by the condemnation O
all such as may conflict with them, from what
(and II will endeavor to deserve the title) 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 compact; by which also they
created the Federal Government, and delegated tC
it, AZ their common agent, the powers expressly
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 uaurpaton of the
reserved authority of the States by the agent Of
their own creation. ts9
upon the basis of the rights of the States-under
the Constituton-nnd thus by sedulousy guard
ing the latter it will the efiectually srength-
en- and perpetuate the former.
With regard to the exercise of the powers OF the
Federal Government, the Sentinel will take az the
principles of it's 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 7
shall not seek to attain indirectly object through
the exercise of constitutional pQiper for the direct
attainment of which it has no delegation Of po,cer
In other words. all powers exercised must be clear
Tod Aoli tod hp
for no purpose except such as 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
and more anxious to preserve liberty; and by
leaving to the individual States the management
Of all their domestic concerns-while it contents
itself with guarding the Confederacy from exter-
nai violence, and directing the foreign policy o.
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 exigencief
and correspond with the expanding interests of
the country. That policy should he energetic and
decided; but should temper irmness with liberali-
ty, and make it's highest ends consist with the
strctest rinciples of justice. The real interests
of the country upon each occasion demanding at.
tenton will be its guide in the course the Ssrtine
will pursue.
The national policy of the world in ths age ia
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 own domestic concerns will
prompt US to avoid it in the affairs of other
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 rights
and places in the pathway of our commerce dan
gerous and unfriendly rival, s1ch policy must be
resisted by remoustrance, 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 yigilant, watchful, and energetic. The world
ia full Of important movements, commercial and
political, deeply concerning American trade and
American power. It ia time we had an American
foreign policy. We must have it. We canno,
avoid it if we would. We have larger interests
and a greater stake in the world and it's destiny
than every other people. we occupy the best por-
tion of continent, with no neighbors bot a colo
ny and worn out anarchical despotism. We
are the only people whose own land, without colo
NAL dependencies, ia washed by the two great
oceans of the world. Our agricultural produc-
tons are more varied and more essential 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 Iiv-
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 Asa, Africa, and the sles ofthe 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 infu-
encee, the blessings Of liberty, civilization, and re-
gion, are destined to triumph over the bar barism
and superstition of the millions of the world. And
shall such people refuse to lay hold upon their
is called? A mission 30 full OF hope, though go
laden with responsibility, which, if properly di-
rected, must make our Confedcracy the harbinger
of peace to the world as well as the peaceful arbi
The Sentinel will, therefore, advocate bold and
earnest foreign policy such as the condition of the
country demands, but it will advocate 1t under tn
flag Of the country-nowhere else. Its foreign poll
cy must be consistent with the spotless honor and
unimpcachable good faith of the country. To bt
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 10 wrong
1t must be liberal and mngnanimous to the rights
of others, and firm and immovabe in insisting on
its own. 1t must, in fine, be true TO it's own inter
ests rights, and honor-lt cannot tnen be ialse &c
those of other nations.
Such, then, is the chart by which we shall be
guided. Independent and free, we shall endeavol
10 be honest and truthful. The true friends o
Democratic principles, we snail cordlaily supper,
and defend. Itsenemies in the field or in am6us|
we shall oppose, and on all proper occasions de-
nounCe. gf csF G f
10 our future brethren of the press we extene
the hand of friendly greeting The Sentinel is thu
rival of no press OF lis own~party--the persona
enemy of none Of the other.
The present Democratic Administration has on
best wishes for it's success in the establishment 0
the great principles upon which it came into pow
err: and in its honest labors to attain such enc
it will find the St,tntI .ts friend and coadjutor.
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