Washington sentinel., 1854-05-09
PROSPE ECTU S
.wAsHINGToN SENTINEL.

der the name Of the WASHINGTON sENTI-
MEL.
In doing so, it is proper should make known
the principles il will maintain, and the policy II
will advocate.
1T will support cordially and earnestly the prin-
ciplcs Of the Democratic party Of the United States
it does not propose TO be the organ Of any Depart
ment of the Government, except in so far as an in
| dependent maintenance of the doctrines of that
party may represent its opinions and express its
views.
| Ii willpot be ambitious to commend itselfto the
people by blind fattery of their rulers. II will
| seek public support by the bold avowal of the
| sentiments which are common to the genuine
Democracy Of the Union, and by the condemna-
| ton of all such as may conflict with them, from
whatever quarter they may come. II will seek to
| be (and it will endeavor TO deserve the te) the
organ of the Democratic party Of the United
i States.
i The SENTINEL will maintain as fundamental
truth of that great party that the States formed the
Union between them by the ratification of the Con-
stitution as compact by which, also, they created
| the Federal Government, and delegated 10 il,
| as their common agent, the powers expressly
| specified in it, with an explicit reservation of all
others to the States, or TO their separate govern
ments. The exercise Of any powers beyond these
thus delegated, Isl therefore, an usurpaton of the
reserved authority of the States by the agent OF
their own creation. 5F
The SENTINEL will uphold and defend the Union
| upon the basis of the rights of the Statss-under
| the Constitution-and thus by seduously guarding
the latter, it will the more efectualy strengthen
and perpetuate the former.
With regard to the exercise of the powers of the
| Federal Government, the SENTINEL will take as
the principles of its action, that Congress shall ex
| ercise no power which has not been delegated by
the Constitution according to strict and fair in
depreciation of its language and spirit and that it
shall not seek to attain tndtrecty an obectthrough
the exercise Of constitutional pofcer for the direct
attainment of which it has delegation Of poicer.
| In other words, all powers exercised must be
clearly granted, and all granted powers must be
used for no purpose, except such as is clearly in
tended by the Constitution.
In respect to the internal administration of the
Government, the SENTINEL will sustain the settled
policy Of the Democratic party. II will labor to
| incucate this cardinal doctrine of Democratic in
/ ternal policy this Government will best
promote the freedom and prosperity of the people
of the States, by being less ambitious to exercise
! power, and more anxious to preserve liberty; and
| by leaving to the individual States the manage
! ment of all their domestic concerns--while it
l tents itself with guarding the confederacy from
external violence, 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 States composing it.
i The SENTINEL will advocate such progressive
foreign policy will suit itself TO the exigencies,
and correspond with the expanding interests Of the
i country. That policy should be energetic and de-
| cided; but should temper frmness with liberaity
and make its highest ends consist with the strictest
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country, upon each occasion demanding 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 ambitious restlessness of others, a COM
. mon motive to colonial extension has developed
iself
Our settled determination to repel interference
from abroad with our domestic concerns, will
prompt to avoid it in the affairs Of other coun-
tries, mnless by their foreign colonial policy
| 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
dangerous and unfriendly rival, such policy must
be resisted by remonstrance, and, if need be, by
i war.
Our foreign policy should, indeed, be defensive
but to be properly defensive, it must sometimes be
apparently aggressive. Our administration should
be vigilant, watchful, and energetic. The world
/ is full OF important movements, commercial and
| political, deeply concerning American trade and
/ American power. II is time we had an American
/ foreign policy. We must have il. We cannot
avoid it if we would. We have larger interests and
greater stake in the world and its destiny than
/ every other people, We occupy the best portion
of continent, with no neighbors but colony, and
worn-out, anarchical despotism. We are the
only people whose own land, without colonial de-
tendencies, is washed by the two great oceans of
| varied and more essential to civilized life and TO
human progress-our mineral and manufacturing
resources more vast-our facilities and capacity for
internal and foreign commerce more extended
than those of any other people living under one
government A continent to great extent, un-
explored and exhaustless in its yet hidden wealth
is at feet European trade seeks the great East
through avenues which are at our doors, or must
i be made through our own limits. Europe, Asia,
Africa, and the isles of the 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 influences, the bless
| ngs of liberty, civilization, and religion, des-
tined to triumph over the barbarism and supersti-
| ton of the millions the world And shall such
people refuse to lay hold upon their destiny, and
| act upon the high mission to which il is called9
| A mission full of hope, though so laden with
| responsibility which, if properly directed, must
make our confederacy the harbinger of peace to
| the world, as well as the peaceful arbiter Of its
| destiny.
The SENTINEL will, therefore, advocate bold
and earnest foreign policy, such as the condition OF
| the country demands but il will advocate il under
the flag ofthe country--nowhere else. Its foreign
policy must be consistent with the spotless honor
| and unimpeachabe good faith of the country. To
be 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 IS
1 wrong. II must be liberal and magnanimous to
| the rights of others, and firm and immoveable In
insisting on its own. II must, in fine, be true TO
its own interests, rights, and honor--it cannot then
i be false 10 those of other nations.
Such then is the chart by which we shall be
guided Independent and free, we shall endeavor
to be honest and truthful The true friends OF
democratic principles we shall cordially support
and defend. Its enemies in the field or in ambush
we shall oppose, and on all proper occasions de-
| nounce.
| To our future brethren of the press extend
the hand of friendly greeting. The Sentinel is the
l rival of no press of its own party-the personal
enemy of none of the other.
| The present Democratic Administration has our
best wishes for its in the establishment OF
| the great principles upon which ii came into power
| and in its honest abors to attain such end il
will find the SENTINEL its friend and coadjutor.
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