M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-01-20
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
DEMOCRAT!
C. B. FLOOD, EDITOR.

OK the third Of January the first number of
new Democratic journal, with the above title,
was issued from the press of the undersigned in
Cleveland. Its columns will be devoted to poll
tics, TO the news of the day and reviews OF tho
markets, DC. DC. 1t will be issued daily and
weekly, and it will alike be the pride and pleas.
ure OF those who conduct it to give it rank ut
once as tirstca ~ newspaper, and in typogra phi
ical execution eXcelled by none in the state u he
arrangements already perfected for its regular
publicat ton blots Tho word FAIL from its vOcab
ulary, and the esta blshment Of The NATIONAL
DEuoCRAT"a as one Of the settled institutions, has
already become Il fixed fact.
Our country at this time presents a strange
spectacle, and one calculated to I'LL the breast Of
every patriot with alarm. SgctionaIism, regard
less of the warning voice oil WASHINGTON per
vades the land, and the Union of the States has
as a cons equence, ceased to be regarded Is the
sheet anchor of our political hopes, and its pres
crvaton as a thing Of but little value in com
parson to the political elevation Of the colOred
race. In other times--in the better days Of the
Repubc-when tho Wing and Democratic par
ties metin cOntest,i was battle OF principle,
each of the contending parties advocating That
policy believed by its adherent5 to be best for
the common good. No word, 10 act of disloyal-
ty to the Union was then tolerated Now such
words and such acts arc common. They are
heard in the National Congress, are fippantIy
uttered with parrot-liko precision by the stump
orator, and are to bo found in the columns Of
the party press calling itself Republican, and
arc seen in the acts of the party, and ir its
purely sectional organization,
As tho only National party now in existence,
the Democracy are in the field battling for their
time honored principles for the preservation Of
the Union and the Republic. An alienation, it
is hoped, but of temporary character, has wea-
kened the forces OF tho Democracy, and has so
Frustrated us in Ohio and in many OF the older
States, that in all probability the lower branch
of the next Congress will be in the hands of the
opposition, and war Of bitterness and Of whole
sale denunciatiOn has already commenced agninst
President Buchanan and those who stood by him
and the cath he has taken to support the COnsti-
tuition of the United States and see that the laws
of the Republic are faithfully executed, While
yet freedom Of thought and freedom Of speech
are vouchsated to the American citizen the free
dom of the press cannot be trampled down, and
hence the principles of the democracy of the
Union will be sustained in the columns of the
Democrat, and its chosen agents sustained i'll the
right, careless of whom it may offend,
| The policy and conduct Of the sage and states
man, James Buchanan, deserves and should re-
ceive the unqualified support of The NATIONAL
DEMOCRAT. .r...- ....
After saying thus much we have, indeed writ
ten to little purpose if it be necessary to add,
that the nominees of the Charleston Convention
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, will re-
ceive our warmest support, and that the work
of redeeming Ohio from the misrule Of the enc
my, will find in the conductors of the Democrat
those who have never faltered when the Democ-
racy needed their services, and who arc still able
and willing to do the State some service.
In a word, planting itself on the platform OF
principles adopted at the Cincinnati Natona.
Conventionj and at the last State Convention Of
the democracy at Columbus, the Democrat will
ever be found defending democratic measures
= and the men who carry its measures into eilect
Its editor is not unknown to the democrats OF
Ohio, in the defence of whose principles he has.
passed his life, and that life of unfaltering and
answering, democracy he offers as guarantee
for the future,
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