Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-14
THE FRANKLIN :
A LARGE WEEKLY URNAL
AND PERMANENT RECORD
of the
News and Politics OF tho World.

We stand at great starting point in tn
History of the World. Old things are abou
10 pass away, and we know rot what shall
be the New
The Continent of Europe startled by tn
warning Trumpet of ls4s, has covered int,
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 the,
may consolidate and extend the Reign o
Despotism; keep down the Rising Tide; shu
out the Coming Day.
| Old England seems about to take an atti
tude which will grandly become the flag
which has braved 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, 1.-THE wisest states
men she ever had, broken the worst and ths
strongest of the bonds of Aristocratic Mono
poly,-and lowered little way (yet enough
TO show that they are not impregnable) the
old walls of Privilege she now calls TO al
her children, and sets her house in order
while preparing to meet, if it should come
the shock of the combined Depositisms who
long TO 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 despiscd
" little band, which, two hundred years ago,
wandered from their island home, led and
supported by Divine Providence. to become
great nation in "the 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; ont of our colonization upon the Pacif-
lc Ocean, and its consequences TO all that
border on California and Oregon as we'll
as with the interests, vital to ourselves and
yet worldwide, connected with highways
across the Continent and over the lsthmus,
communicating with our brothers on the
Western Coasts of America, as we'll 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 cladiators.
almost stript of old party names. is looking
out for new watchwordS and new leaders. the
whole sound and intelligent community is
anNiouSly hoping that the new President
may show himself competent 10 lead the pub
lie wisely; to decide justly and prudentlv
the grave and wcighty questions which con-
Germ our American relations and to
stand before the Powers of Europe as the
calm and steadfast Representative Of nigh
~ Republic.
The times call for the establishment, in the
United States, of a Journal of the highest
character, which shall record, in a 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
r RASkLIN apopular and family newspaper
OUT shaii draw largely from the speculations
ana opinions of leading Journals, both in
Europe and America. Far from confinino
its pages TO State Documents. or TO Great
Events TO such papers as the Correspond
ence with Hulsemann, or that upon the Tri.
par1ite Treaty; or, ITO go further back, TO
that which defeated the Quintuple Treaty.
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 the |
Time, but the Heart of the Man.
Although The FRANKLIN is TO be a Chro- |
licle of the leading and characteristic events |
# our time, with concentrates upon them. |
md will thus serve as copiouS Newspaper |
# the Week, vet its great value will be most |
learly seen when bound MP in Volumes. /
We hope to put so much life in them that
hey will be frequently taken from the shelves
or continuous perusal, as well as for reliable