The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-30
. Our New Series.

Our New Series.
We to-day conclude the fourth volume OF
the REPUBLIc. Did we propose to take leave
Of our patrons it might be proper to make an
extended review of the eventful circumstances
which have occurred since the relation of wri
ter and reader has existed between US.
Our career as party press has been che
auefed by the usual vicisstudes. We have
known triumph and defeat, approval and cen
sure We have endeavored to discharge our
duty to our cause and 10 our country conscien-
tiously and fearlessly. We have endeayored
to preserve our own respect and that of all
those whose respect contributes to reputation.
We have endeavored to maintain the dignity
of the American press. How far we may
have succeeded will be determined by our
contemporaries and the public
We have found it necessary to change the
line Of our publication Journals cannot subsist
exclusively on controversies Partisan war
fare is pleasant excitement to the combatants;
but war between two political or polemical
prints is not, during the present political syn
cope, very interesting to the public Men now
instead OF breaking their nechs to get to poit-
ical disPutation, would rather take the cars to
avoid one; and, instead of reading couple of
columns of editorial thunder, they wickedly
shy off to the next railroad OF cohjUgal murder.
We venture to affirm that the ablest and most
logical controversy upon the merits of land
BILL or the virtues of tariff schedule, would
no more attract readers than the wars of Buz-
fuz and Pleydell upon special plea will draw
an audience. You hear racket, and go in.
Scene, dingy court room, with faded baize
curtains; dramatic persona, little Judge very
much worried by two yeping attorneys; tip
staff and pair of relay lawyers, by way of au-
dience. You steal out and shut the door, for
fear you may be nabbed by some entangling
process with a Norman name, or committed
upon a jury, with but the forlorn privilege of
debating nuncupative message to your indig-
nant helpmste.
Yet the points discussed by the jurists are
as profoundly important" and as ''intensely
interesting to them as the editorial war may
be to the cOmbatants. Neither will, however,
we regret to say, attract paying audience at
this time.
The prosperity of journal depends upon the
interest with which the public regard it. 1t
must be conducted with propriety, ability, and
industry. We shall found our claim to public
support upon the faithful cultivation of these
indispensable attributes.
We shall preserve such a tone of moral pro-
priety as that our journal may be safely com.
mitted to the hands of the younger and gentler
members of society, upon whose culture the
destinies of the country depend. Founded in
a spirit Of devotion TO republican principles, it
can never fail to encourage their progress.
1t shall contain all the intelligence of foreign
and domestic importance which the most de-
liberate student Of events may require; and it
shall in its local and current news be as fast
and as fresh as the contributions of active
agents can make it.
An intermission of few days will be neces
sary to effect the change of manner and apparel
with which we are to reappear before the pub
lie. It will be hyphen separating the two
series without impalring their value.
1t will no doubt crafty our friends to learn
that our appeal for subscribers has been re-
sponded toin manner most encouraging, and we
shall address ourselves to an agreeably extended
list of subscribers. We shall hope that our
patrons will, in proportion as we shall deserve
1t, aid US in our enterprise.
To the citizens of this important metropolis
we appeal for such encouragement as will en-
able US to expand our circulation into the inte
rior, and redeem the city press from the re-
Proach of having Sometimes permitted the pa
pers of other cities to give the earliest infor-
nation Of what occurs within our own.
The first number of the new series will ap
pear on Wednesday, the 9th of July.
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