Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-10
THE FRANKLIN
LARGE WEEKLY URNAL
AND PERMANENT RECORD
Of TIE
News and Politics OF the World.

We stand at great starting point in thu
! History of the World. Old things are abou
to pass away, and VIC know not what shall
( be the New.
| The Continent of Europe startled by tuC
warning Trumpet of lS4S, has covered into
| silence and while all faces gather blackness
and mems hearts fail them for fear Of wha
is coming upon the Earth,-the Rulers O
/ Great Nations counsel together how they
may consolidate and extend the Reign o.
| DespotisIn; keep down the Rising Tide; shut
out tine Coming Day.
Old England seems about TO take an att
tude which will grandly become the flag
which has breved a thousand years. She
quails not before the rising storm which
threatens all constitutional Governments.
Having, under the leading OF the great Com
moner" Sir Robert Peel, ithc wisest states
men she ever had, broken the worst and the
strongest of the bonds of Arstocratic Mono
poly,-and lowered little way yet enough
TO show that they are not impregnable) the
old walls of Privilege, she now calls 10 all
her children, and sets her house in order
while preparing to meet, if il should come,
the shock of the combined Depositisms who
long 20 destroy the only Free Press which
moves in the old world. And we gladly see
that, wise at last, her statesmen and writers
now turn, with kinder eyes and more loving
hearts, to the long neglected and despised
little band, which, two hundred years ago,
wandered from their island home, led and
supported by Divine Providence, to become
a great nation in "tle wilderness"
While these vast interests impend in the
Old World, NOW become Neighbor Of the
New, we are graphing with questions new
and portentious, which arise out of the de-
cay Of Spain and the decomposition of Mex
leo out of our colonization upon the Pacif-
ic Ocean, and its consequences to ell that
border on California and Oregon; as well
as with the interests, vital to ourselves and
vet worldwide, connected with highways
across the Continent and over the Isthmus,
communicating with our brothers on the
Western Coasts of America, as well as with
| the dense masses of Asia.
Our domestic politics have been hushed
by concurrence of opposite causes. And
now, while the array OF political giadiators,
almost stript of old party names, is looking
out for new watchwords and new leaders, the
whole sound and intelligent community is
snxiously hoping that the new President
may show himself competent to lead the pub
lie wisely to decide justly and prudently
the grave and weighty questions which con
Germ our American relations and to
stand before the Powers of Europe as the
calm and steadfast Representative of a nigh
ty Republic.
The times call for the establishment, in the
United States, of Journal of the highest
character, which shall record, in form suit
able for preservation, History as it passes by
US.
In undertaking to do this, we shall not
only compile, from the best sources, such a
summary of events as will contain everything
interesting and attractive, and make THE
FRANKLIN popular and family newspaper,
but shall draw largely from the speculations
and opinions of leading Journals, both in
Europe and America. Far from combining
its pages 10 State Documents, or to Great
/ Events to such papers rs the Correspond
ence with Hulsemann, or that upon the Tri-
partite Treaty; or, ito 60 further back, to
that which defeated the Quintuplc Treaty,
and probably prevented war with Europe
we hope that they may faithfully reflect the
Men and Women Of the present day, in form
and even in color, as they live; by showing
what they may say and do, in all matters
which concern not only the fashion OF tic
Time, bat the Heart Of the Man.
/ Although THE FRANKLIN IS to be ChTo-
micic Of the leading and Characteristic events
of our time, with concentrates upon them
and will thus serYe as 3 copIous Newspaper
of the Week, yet its great value viii be mos
clearly seen when bound up in Volumes
! We hope 10 pu; so mach life in them tina
they viii befreguently taken from the shelves
for continuous perusai, rs well as for relisbli
rsfersnes 70 rscoTsass facts. To pubic Ii