The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-12-22
JOURNALS.
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HE OFFICIAL PAPER OF CON-
GRESS, AND NEW SPAPkR FOR THE
PEOPLE. 1T will be seen by the annexed ex-
tract from letter of General W Wa~hington, to
David Stewart, dated New York, I7h March,
l79o, that the idea of such paper as pro-
pose to make the Globe, originated in he mind
Of the Father Of his country lie said:
"lt is to be lamcnted thai the editors of the
different Gazettes iii the Union do not more gen
orally and more correctly Gnsead of stuffing
their papers with scurrilty and nonsensical de-
ctamat on, which few would read if they were
appraised of the coLtents) publish the debates
il Congress ON all great national questions
The principle upon which the difference of o.
pinions ARISES, as well as the decisions, would
then come fully before The public, and afford
the best data for its judgement. II Sparks wri-
tings of Washington, vol. 10 p. e4
THE DAILY GLOBE AND THE CoNGREssI oNAL
GLoBE.-ln surrending my interest in the or
gan of great political party, cherished the
purpose of continuing the Congressional Globe,
ard, if possible, in time, to perfect it into fu |
history of the action of Congress, giving the
debates accurately and fully with the proceed
ings-all stamped with the verify of all officiat
record From the passage in the letter of Cen
eral Washington, which have quoted, it will be
perceived that he thought this Office might be
combined with that of regu ar newspaper
and it is certain that the avdity of the public
for news of the less important kind greatly con-
tributes to give wings to the weighter matter
which may be cal ed Congressional news
Having succeeded i'll my purpose of perfect
ing the reports of the debates in Congress and
giving the official stamp, now propose to send
them abroad, in connection with the news of
the dag. i'll such haste as shall outstrip full and
accurate Intelligence sent from the seat of gov
eminent in any other form whatever. 1t wi |
even anticipate the scraps Of news forwarded
TO cities within two hundred and fifty miles of
Washington by telegraph. Before the events
thus transmitted are published in the morning
papers, (for instance of the city of New York,
post Office of that city by the Express Mail of
the previous night. The process by which this
will be effected | now lay before the public.
! will have corps of l6 reporters in Con-
gress each in succession will take notes during
five minutes, then retire, prepare them for the
Press, put them slip by slip III the hands of the
compositions, and thus while debate is going
on In Congress, 1t will be put in type, and in
few minutes after it is ended it will be in print
shall by this means be enabled to send by the
Express Mail of o'lcock, P. NJ, or the East
West, and North, and by that of o'clock, P. NJ. +,
for the south all the proceedings of Congress up
to the ordinary hour of adjournment. Thus the
accurate debates of Congress viii reach the cit.
les two hundred and fifty miles from the Capt.
tol before their daily morning papers are in cir
culation.
The miscellaneous news shall be careful to
gather from remote sections of the country by
telegraph | will obtain from the Executive
Departments, through official sources, the mat
ters moment transacted in them, and, through
agents employed for the purpose, all the city
news of consequence in sufficient time to be put
into thu Globe and mailed in the Express Mail
trains In this way hope to create a new era
trI4(
therto no newspaper has attempted 10 give
authentic accounts of things done at Washing
ION before the public mind at a distance had re-
celved its first Impressions from irresponsible
telegraphic disPatchers, or by letter-writers
biased by peculiar views.
4 Washington has now become so great a GEN.
ter Of political interest during the year---the