Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-12
From the Daily ournal of Saturday.
THE SIXTH VOLUME,

We enter today upon the sixth volume of the
Daly Journal In 1851 we commenced the publ
cation of a daily paper in Wilmington, as an expert
ment and if that experiment has not resulted IN any
very heavy pecuniary recompense 10 the projectors
it has at least been successful in establishing the
daily press as fixed institution in this community.
If it has not yet attained all the expansion and use
fulness that we could desire, we cannot but think
that 1t has been of benefit to the commercial and
other interests of the town, and great convenience
to the citizens and those connected with them by
business or other relations.
At the outset We relied upon the liberal and enter.
prising spirit of the people Of Wilmington, feeling
assured that they would appreciate and sustain the
progressive movement which we had initiated and
that five years have elapsed, we can say that
nothing has occurred calculated to weaken that assu
rance Throughout the excltements that have swept
over us, we have kept the tenor of that way on
which we set out, and if our growth has not always
been as rapid as we could have desired, our course
has at least been steadily forward and we enter now,
upon the sixth volume with larger list of subscr-
bers than we have before counted. That we
have been without crosses and troubles do
not pretend to say-but who has escaped? That
all our readers liked all that published or said,
we were never foolish enough to suppose or expect.
We only hoped that TO US would be accorded the
credit which we felt to be our due-that which &C.
companies honesty and purity of motive, and faith
full and devoted advocacy of all that in our opinion
could tend to promote the best and most permanent
interests Of the section to which we belong and the
town in which we reside
1t is scarcely necessary-perhaps hardly proper
for us in this connection to refer at any length to
political matters in connection with course.
No one who has taken or may hereafter take the
Journal has done so or will do so under any mis-.
apprehension. 1t always has been is now, and will
continue to be while under our control Southern,
Sates-Rghts Democratic paper, devoted TO the
Union of the States and the equality of the States,
willing and anxious to do all that can be done 10
secure the perpetuity of Constitutional Union Not
willing to do any thing to perpetuate any Union one
hour after the constitution ceases to extend its Egs
verall-for equality in the Union but for equality
in or out of the Union. We fully and honestly be-
ieve that the BEST most reliable and only practica
bic way to secure our constitutional rights and thus
perpeuate our constitutional Union is by the firm
and unbroken attitude of the South The South is
Democratic-her friends at the North are mainly
Democratc-an efficient Union can only be effected
upon the Democratic party as nucleus, and in sup
port of the Democratic national candidates opposed
10 Northern sectiOnalism. Such is our position anC
such the position we shall eEdeavour to enforce by
every fair argument we can bring to bear in thu
present presidential canvass.
But In politics we shall never merge our position
as commercial newspaper To all that can inter