The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-08
PROSPECTUS
4 II CEN SOR,
A Monthly Revier of the Political Press.
"BE JUST AND FEAR NOT =

TWO APPROACH that most august tribunal The
Public before which the most kngy pride must conceal
oeason Of deep purpose
strance and the motive Of deep the very
In our common country there are among men more or less CON
neoted with It's politics class who those
nsinccies of action and partisan INDUCED
by custom and by that the honorable
tempted employ hera who support
sound s pn, ,a tent BY dislike @ the prevailing
md who appchcnd serious Decentralization
hcai principles and private virtue II for such that this publca
The general neslec, duty however high authorizes the
M needed The public has probably as o doubt as the
better than the public this the experiment
mime acknowledged with regret that political magazine
ieTcd to the public exempar absolute
novelty IN what called politics But perceived upon what
principle dncrested could condemn the project long suffer
t to be singular The following opinions are held general
That the pocy parties politicians according
almost exclusively political maintains tho action and BY
day that there is in the public mind dangerous complication Of
lodged eayy have been by the men and
their political PARTY that the country abounds with aud ytu
people Their service il there was any practicable method Of select
ing ten That attempt 70 this end in The nature Of organized
reform artcs has failed and continue fail through the
causes that produce the evil" &C.
The following convictions Others have been adopted for
WIN Abilities yet und but WIN an aftess and reso
lutte candor which hoped will not altogether dssapcnt conf
Tho virtue OF the people the Public opinion
Is sui n,aerant Of hypocrisy and duply general bu toleraes
surely extend this until general degradation Of public
sentiment will cndangcr political
these evils exist chiefly because principles morality
mntsy ignored practical political questions irrelevant
these likewise ignored questions Tho object
be TO demonstrates by every they
are one questions that sound politics practical morality that under
popular governments political moral obligation that
parao Of morals and politics must tend private virtue
and suhvcrt public order that those who forth public
pry as ground for reward should be treated who put
price on their virtues and who hold profit be the proper condition
Of duty that men believed to be seeking Office should be ouy
excluded therefrom that politicians should be
motives That they cannot justify III public confession that pot
carr secrets aud condolences against the
political press has the OF reforming the evils that
editors generally candid and just matters of fact
opon that their politics exception
but they continue they justly chargcabe with the
deterioration of public morals
These views will be solely
facts and principles scecingcey
without element Of
nation appropriate examples each representative and
illustrative " prevalent evil principle and then applying
instances with simplicity the plain rules Of justice
Oar political faith consists OF those doctrines usually nnrpo
rated by tho democrats their party Platforms which Catholic
principles shall support shall
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