The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-02-22


doing as ven az &G can, we may attain to
titlo % occupy and enjoy And even in
view Of our weakness and the strength of
those with whom we shall come in com
petition, we feel that,
The race II Is not always got
BY him that swiftest runs;
Nor tho battel by those peopel
That shoot with longest guns.
The Press is not very magnificent in its
dimensions, for several reasons,
FIRST, we desire to make a paper for
the people-which, being within the
means of everybody, shall circulate every
where We believe that well-conducted
journal of this size, at the price we ask
for it, can be made profitable to its pro-
prietors as well as advantageous to the
public. 1t is easy to enlarge, when there
are motives to justify it; and we hope to
be so situated as not to be at all disturbed
when the necessity for enlargement shall
arrive
SECONDLY, its proprietors are not rich.
They are forced to content themselves to
do business upon q small investment until
the ability is acquired to employ a larger
one. 1t is the opposite of prudence to be-
gin extravaganty Reasonable people
approve the conduct of him who COM
mences as he can continue, and makes no
pretentions to means that he has vet to
accumulate. To begin larger than pru-
dence will justify, and thereby create
necessity for q subsequent contraction, is
an act of folly the effect (which is not un-
frequently misfortune Besides, itseems
almost inevitable that newspaper should
have its period of infancy. All the really
successful establishments in the world
have started from small beginnings; and
every attempt within our knowledge to
avoid the apparently inevitable day of
small things, has resulted either in abso-
lutte failure or that which, in respect to
pecuniary loss was its equivalent
THIRDLY, we are not anxious to number
mere SIZE among our eleWents of success
We do not believe huge expanse of pa
per Indispensable to attractiyeness Size
and weakness, so often associated in other
things, are not always so entirely INSOFAR
able in our public journals as their pro-
prietOrs are willing sometimes to suppose.
There is disease of enlargement to which
newspaperdom is subject, one of whose
symptoms is an incapacity to distinguish
between quantity aud quality We feel
the full force of the fact that we are en-
tering this day into a competition with
several gentlemen of enlarged views, and
in feet and inches-great superfciality;
and yet, while we humbly hope we are
not envious, we confess that we are not
unpleasantly afraid. We do not dread
that the Press will not be large enough to
hold per diem all that is worth the know
ing, so much as we do our own capacity
to put the best things of the day into its
columns.
So far as it is in the power of the con-
ductors, the Press will be. an independent
journal acknowledging no umpire in mat
ters of opinion but reason and common
sense With faith, except so far as it is
founded upon the conclusions of the in
tellect, we have nothing to do In respect
to men, the object of our exertions will
be the advancement of the most worthy.
We have an instructive hatred of corrup-
ton and usurpation in government which
we do not expect to be able ever entirely
to suppress.
We intend to employ our best exertions
to make the Press a decorous iounal-one
that shall be in every respect fit to be in
troduced into the family, and that TO man
not conscious of public and fragrant i'll
desert, shall fear to open and peruse-
There will be no attempts to make it a
minister of public justice, or dictator of
the proceedings of courts or the yerdicts
Of juries. Lengthy observation has con-
vinced us that the public press has its le-
gitimate province in civilized society, that
its usefulness depends upon its success in
keeping within the proper boundaries, and
that when it assumes to do the work of
the legislature, the Judiciary, or the pub
lie executioner, it not merely paralyses its
own strength, but becomes a nuisance that
deserves to be abated. We do not, there
fore, intend to accompany our indepen-
dence with any degree of impertinence,
nor, as the manner of some is, make up
for its absence by an occasional display
of the insolence of irresponsible power
We are opposed to all personal putrery,
and, of course, to all personal detraction;
and while we shall not hesitate to expose
wickedness and laugh at folly, shall he
desirous to avoid doing injury to the pri-
vate feelings of any man or woman.
Since the well-knOwn AWFUL GARDNER
seeded from the ranks of the Pr;noa of