M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-03
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
DEMOCRAT.
c. B. FLOOD, EDITOR.

On 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 the
markets, &c. 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 at
once as u firstclas, newspaper, aud in ypograph.
ical execution eXcelled by none in the State. The
arrangements already perfected for its regular
publication bots 'ho word FAIL from its vUcab.
ulary, and the establishment Of "TnE NATIONAL
DEMOCRAT" as one of the settled Institutions has
already become Il fixed fact.
| Our country at this time presents strange
spectacle, and one calculated to ill the breast Of
every patriot with alarm. Sectionalism, regard
| less OF the warning voice Of WAsHINGToS per
yades the land, and the Union of the States has,
as consequence ceased to he regarded as the
sheet anchor Of our political hopes, and its pres
eryation as Il thing Of but little value in COM
parison TO the political elevation Of the cOlOrcd
race. In other timesin the better days Of the
! Republic-whon the Whig and Democratic par
ties metin contest, it was q battle of principle,
each of the contendng parties advocating that
policy believed byits adhorents to DO best for
the common good No word, no act Of disloyal-
ty to the Union was then tolerated. Now such
words and such acts are common. They arc
heard in the National Congress, are fippantly
uttered with parrot-like precision by the stump
orator. and are to he found in tho columns OF
! the party press calling itself Republican, and
are seen in the acts of the same party, and in its
purely sectional organization.
As the 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 the Democracy, and has so
Frustrated us in Ohio and in many of the older
States, thatin 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 denuncation has already commenced against
President Buchanan and those who stood by him
and the oath 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 vOuchsacd to the American citizen the free
dom of the press cannot be tramped 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 in the
| right, careless of whom 1t 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.
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 msrule 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 are still able
and willing to do the State some service.
In word, planting itself on the platform Of
principles adopted at the Cincinnati National
Convention 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 effect
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 unfalterihg and
unswerving democracy he offers as guarantee
for the future.
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