The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-09-07
Prospectus Of the
WASHINGTON SENTINEL.

w WA0n4NU1ON DEN lin Ell.
1 propose TO publish in the city of Washington
Il in September, political newspaper, under the name
OF the washington Sentnel.n In doing so it Is
proper should make known the principles 1t will
maintain and the policy il will advocate. .
Ii will support cordially and earnestly the princi,
Piles the Democratic Republican party OF the United
States, 1t does not propose to be the organ OF any
department OF the Government, except IN SO iar as
independent maintenance of the doctrines OF that
party may represent its opinions and express Its
views,
It will not be ambitious to commend itself to the
people by blind hattery OF their rulers. ltWlll seek
support by the bold avowal OF the sentiments whlcl
are cemuon to the genuine Democracy oil the Union,
and by the condemnation of all such as may conflict
with lhem from whatever quarter they may come.
1t will seek to be (and it will endeavor to deserve
the title) the organ OF the Democratic Purity Of the
United States
The ..Sentinel" will maintain fundamental truth
of that great part that the States formed the Union
between them by the ratification ol the Constitution
as a compact by which also they created the FEEDER
vi t,oyernment and delegated to it, as their COM
mon agent, the powers expressly specified in it,
with an explicit reservation OF all Others to tile States,
or TO their separate governments. The exercise OF
nny powers beyond those thus delegated is there
fore a 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
Constitutions; and thus by scdulousy guarding the
latter, it VIII the more eiteclualy strengthen and
perpetuate the former.
With regard to the exercise of the powers of the
Federal Government, the Sentinel will take as tho
principals of its action that Congress shall exercise
no power which has not been delegated by the Con.
sttution according to Il strict and fair nerpreta-
ton of its language and spirit and that it shall
not seek to attain indirectly an object through the
exercise Unconstitutional power for tho direct attain
ment of which it has no delegation of power. In 9TH
er words, all powers exercised must be ccrcIy gran
ted, and all granted powers must be used for pur-
pose except such as is cereiy intended by the Con-
stitutiOn
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 the cardinal doctrine OF Democratic in
ternal policy that this Government will bGst pro-
mote the freedom and prosperity 0i the people of
the States by being less ambitious to exercise pow
or and more anxious TO preserve liberty and by GuY
inr to the individual States the management of all
their domestic concerns, while it cont nts itself
with guarding the Contederacy from external vi0-
lence and directing the foreign policy OF the country
to the promotion OF the common interests and defence
of the common rights and honor OF the Statcs
posing II.
The Sentinel will advocate such progressive for
eiGn policy as will suititself to the eXigcnces and
correspond with the demanding interests of the
try. That policy should be energetic and decided;
but should temper ilrmess with iberality, and make
its highest ends consist with the strctest principals
of Justice. The real interests OF tho country, up
on each occasion comanding attention, 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
weakness Of some OF the nations OF the Old World,
and the ambitions rostlUssness of Others common
motive to colonial extension has developed itself
Our settled determination to repeI interference
from abroad with our own domestic concerns will
prompt us 10 avoid it in the affairs Ot other countries,
unless, by their foreign colonial policy, peace
shonld bU hreatend, security endangered, our
interests invaded. For when the selfish interest OF
other nations prompt foreign or colonial policy,
which infringes upon our rights and places III the
pathway OF our commerce dangerous and uairiend-
ly rival such policy must be resisted by renlOn-
strance, and, itneeI be, by war.
Our foreign policy should, indeed be defensive;
but TO be properly defensive, 1t must sometimes be
apparently aggressive. Our administration should
be vigilant, wutchu and energetic The world is
tnll ot important movements, commercial and polt-
icul, deeply concerning American trade and Anne
Iican power 1t is time we had an American tor
c9n psIicy We must have it. We cannot avoid
it Ii we would. We have larger interests, and n
greater stake in the world and its destiny, than every
other people, We occupy the portion OF Il councnt,
with no neighbors but colony, and worn out,
snarchcal despotism. We are the only people
whose own land, without colonial dependencies is
washed by the two great oceans of the world. Our
agricultural productions are more varied and more Cs-
sential to civilized life and to human progress, OUT
mineral and manufacturing resources more vast, our
ana CupdcLy anu lOGC1H COlll-
nerCe extended than those OF any other people
living under one government. A continent, to 4
great extent unexpored and exiaustIess in its yet
hidden wealth. is ut 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 OF the sea, lying
all around u.s. look to us as the rising Power thro'
the agency OF whose exam Die und every widening
and extending through peaceful influences the bless
ings OF liberty, clvlZatlon, and religion are des-
arI
the millions OF the world. And shall such people
refuse to lay hold upon their destiny and act upon
the hi Ih mission to which it Is caed-a mission so
full of hope, though 90 laden with responsibility,
whicn, Improperly directed, must make our conted-
eracy the barbnger Oi peace to the w0lI as well as
the peaceful arbltcr ofis destined.
The Sentinel will Therefore advocate n bold and
earnest foreign policy, such as the condition OF the
country demands; but it will advocate it under the
OF the flag country nowhere else. Its foreign policy
lnnst be consistent with the spotess honor and un-
impeachable good faith of the Country. 10 be re-
spectacle at home and abroad and to be great in the
eyes of the world, it must ask for nothing but what
is right and to submit to nothing that is wrong
Ii must be liberal and magnanimous to the rights OF
others, and firm and ilnmoveable in insisting on its
own. 1t must in fine, be true to its own interest
rights and honor; it cannot then be false those Of
other nations
Such, then, is the chart by wich we shall be gui-
ded Independent and free, we shall endeavor to be
honest and truthful. The true friends of Democrat
ic principles, we shall cordially support and defend
Its enemies in the fields or in ambush we shall OPP
pose and on all proper occasions denounce.
TO our future breathern of the press extend the
hand of friendly greeting The Sentinel is the rival
efno press of its party, the personal enemy OF
none of the other.
The present Democratic Administration has our
best wisher for its success in the establishment of
the great principles upon which it came into pewer
and in its honest abors to attain such an end it will
find, the Sentinel its friend and coadjutor.
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