Washington sentinel., 1854-06-01
PROSP ECTU u S
.wAsHINGToN SENTINEL,

MEL.
In doing so, it is proper should make known
the principles it will maintain, and the policy il
will advocate. tt
II will support cordially and earnestly the prin
cples of the Democratic party Of the United States
it does not propose to be the organ Of any Depart
ment ofthe Government, except in so far as an in
dependent maintenance of the doctrines of that
party may represent its opinions and express It's
views.
people by blind fattery Of their rulers. II will
seek public support by the bold avowal of the
sentiments which common to the genuine
Democracy Of the Union, and by the condemna-
tion of all such as may conflict with them, from
whatever quarter they maycome. II will seek to
be (and it viii endeavor to deserve the ttle) the
organ of the Democratic party of the United
States.
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-
stution as compact; by which, also, they created
the Federal Government, and delegated 10 il,
as their common agent, the powers expressly
specified in II, with an explicit reservation of all
others TO the States, 10 their separate govern
ments. The exercise of any powers beyond these
thus delegated is, therefore, an usurpation of the
reserved authority of the States by the agent oil
their own creation.
The SENTINEL will uphold and defend the Union
upon the basis Of the rights Of the Statos-under
the Constitution-and thus by sedulously guarding
the latter, it will the more efectually strengthen
and perpetuate the former.
With regard to the exercise of the powers of the
Federal Government, the SENTINEL will take as
the principles ofits 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 il
shall not seek TO attain indirectly an objectthrough
the exercise Of constitutional poacer, for the direct
offo az which has M of
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. 1t will labor to
inculcate this cardinal doctrine Of Democratic in
terna policy:-that 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 con-
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.
The SENTINEL will advocate such progressive
foreign policy will suit itself to the exigences,
and correspond with the expanding interests of the
cided; but should temper frmness with liberality
and make its highest ends consist with the sricest
principles Of justice. The real interests of the
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 i.
| essentially aggressive. In the growing sense o
weakness of some of the nations of the Old World
and the ambitious restlessness of others, q com
mon motive to colonial extension has develope.
iself -
Our settled determination to repel interference.
from abroad with our domestic concerns, viii
prompt us to avoid it in the affairs Of other coun
tries, unless by their foreign or 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 our rights
and places in the pathway of our commerce
dangerous and unfriendly rival, such policy must
be resisted by remonstrance, and, f need be, BY
war.
Our foreign policy should, indeed, be defensive
but to be properly defensire it must sometimes be
apparo,,tiy aggressive. Our administration should
be vglant, watchfnl, 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 it. We cannot
avoid il 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
a worn-out, anarchical despolism. We are the
only people whose own land, without colonial de-
tendencies, is washed by the two great oceans of
the world. Our agricultural productions arc more
varied and more essential to civilized life, and 10
human progress--our mineral and manufacturing
resources more vastour facilities and capacity for
internal and foreign commerce more extended
than those of any other people living under one
government. continent, to great extent, un-
explored and exhaustless IN its yet hidden wealth
is at our feet European trade seeks the great East
through avenues which are at our doors, must
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
ings of liberty, civilization, and religion, dcs-
tined to triumph over the barbarism and supersti-
ton of the millions of the world And shall such
a people refuse to lay hold upon their destiny and
act upon the high mission to which il is called?
A mission so full of hope, though so laden with
responsibility, which, if properly directed, must
make our confederacy the harbinger of peace 10
the world, as well as the peaceful arbiter of its
destiny.
The SENTINEL. will therefore, advocate told
and earnest foreign policy, such the condition
the country demands; but il will advocate il under
the flag ofthe country-nowherc else. It's foreign
policy must be consistent with the spotless honor
and unimpeachabe good faith of the country. To
reSpectdDie at HoHtc ABROAD. ana 10 DC great
in the eyes of the world, it must ask for nothing
but what is right, and submit to nothing that is
wrong. 1t must be liberal and magnanimorfs to
the rights Of others, and firm and immoveable in
insisting on its own. II must, in fine, be true 10
its own interests, rights, and honorit cannot then
be false to those of other nations.
Such then, is the chart by which we shall be
guided. Independent and free, we shall endeavor
10 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.
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rival of no press of its own party-thc personal
enemy of none of the other.
\ The present Democratic Administration has our
best wishes fer its success in the establishment OF
the great principles upon which tcame into power;
and in its honest labors TO attain such an end il
will find the SENTINEL its friend and coadjutor.
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