Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-31
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THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,.

throughout the country, than II has been here
toiorc. In making this statement we do moi
wish to he understood as apologixing, In any
REPUBLICAN. II has been worth all that We
have charged for 1t. Prosperity In the world
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed
| invly thankful, TO our numerous patrons, war.
rants us in promising to make a still better
| paper of the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN in the future,
at The same price, than il has been In the past.
III making this announcement we do not In.
tend to enter into an extended detail statement
OF all the Improvements we shall make but, In
a general way, TO indicate what we propose
doing, assuring the public that We shall use
our utmost endeayors TO perform faithfully all
that we promise.
The facilities afforded US to produce tho.
rough national newspaper are greater than are
| enjoyed by the publishers of any other journal
In the country, for the followiIg reasons:
1st. The REPUBLICAN is published at Wash.
ington City, the seat of the National Govern.
ment.
I'd. THE PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act OF Congress to select
ono paper as the official medium Of all the Exc.
cutlve Departments ofthe Government, we take
pleasure In stating that he has done us the
honorto select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law Of Congress referred to.
Sd. The Congress and the Supreme Court and
the Court of claims Of the United States, sever
ally sit here during each year, and we employ
a corps of able REpoRTBRs, whose duty 1t u
to furnish the daily records Of those high tri-
bunals.
4th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations OF the Army and Navy of
the United States, by virtue of the relations ex-
listing between the Government and the Ma.
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN, referred to above, nothing
that Is proper to publish. of Military and Naval
operations, can or shall escape our notice.
9Th. Our "Forelgn Relations" now mere
Important than ever, will be the subject of our
constant and paternal care.
9th. The Finances of the Government, which
always affords an ample field for the journalist,
shall meet with the most careful attention of
the Undersigned. Some Of the ablcst writers
In the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject in the REPUBLICAN.
9TH. Our Postal arrangements, so important
TO the people Of every community, be II large
or small, especially TO those who can read and
write, are duly noted in the several changes to
which they are subject during the year.
sth. The great interests represented by the
several Bureaus of the Interior Department
will not be overlooked In the WEEKLY REPuB.
LICAN. Especially shall we keep our Agricul.
tural readers, throughout the country. posted
up concerning everything OF public interest in
the Agricultural Bureau.
9th. The Patent Office, being within i've
minutes walk Of our office of publication, 1t
will be an easy matter, as It will be pleasure
for us to keep the Inventor and Artizan advised
of all improvements.
10Th. The Smithsonian Institute, established
In Washington, having already become one of
the highest scientific institutions In the nation,
we shall avail ourselves of the advantages of its
Bureaus Of Art and Science to enrich our col.
umns for the instruction of our readers.
18th. Washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men O
every class in society congreyste here military,
naval, and civil officers Of the General and
State, and territorial governments representa-.
tives ofevery branch OF business taxed BY the
Internal Revenue Laws-ieputations of citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and theo-
logians of every stripe, who come in nocks,
some for office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each aud all of these c mers
and goers increase our labors, and contribute
10 enhance the value Of the columns of the Re-
PUBLICAN in some manner.
Eth. The official, civil, and uncivil repre-
sentatives of every foreign nation on the earth,
are found here, aud tNnnot act or move upher.
aided by our active attaches.
Above, in a general form, we have given
',ce'pe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
published in the City of Washington, possesses
greater facilities for obtaining all the import
ant news of the day, OF every description, than
any other jour AL In the United States. The
highest evidence of this, which relieves vs. from
the charge OF ogotlsm, is the fact witnessed all
over the nation daily (by those who care to OBJ
serve it) tat the leading, widest circulated,
and most influential journals in the United
States gather the most important Departmental
news, especially of our military and naval
operations, official and otherwise, from the
columns OF the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. This
ia n fac n hn M all faa sI,.,
many of the proprietors of those journals pay
enormous sums of money yearly to "Asso.
ciated Prcss' and Especial Correspondents. %
SO called, to furnish them with the current
news of the day. We regret to say, In this
connection, that those correspondents do not
always inform their employers that they are
not the authors OF many oil the most important
dispatches they send over the wires at an ex.
pense of four ce,ttS pr rord, by crediting them
TO the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they in ius-
tice should do. We especially think they
should credit US when they encroach SO far as
to telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their OlcM compositions. However, we beg par.
don for this complaining DEPRESSION, and will
not deny that we observe, In all this unfair.
ness, a compliment to our industry on the part
OF these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support as
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy of the present Administration, while
tnht pONcy Is lOr FREEDOM IN It's DrOadest and
highest sense, and against Slay ~. When he
present, or any other administration, ptsrxiles
different course on the question Of human slavery,
zoe shall oppose IL nth oar migh' aud main, God
helping us, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news of the day
will always receive prompt and careful atten-
ton.
The Literary Department of the REPUBLICAN
will be supplied with choice, selected and ORR
ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest writers
In this country and in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns Of the REPUBLICAN that will offend
the susceplibilities of the most refined.
In brief, We purpose making the REPUBLICAN
q FAMILY Newspaper Of the highest and most
complete order.
II is but proper and Just to our readers to say
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
Of Reporters engaged upon tho NATIONAL Re-
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspaper
men In the broadcast sonse of the term. The
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, have
both been engaged for more than twenty years
tive are both young men yetD as Journalists
upon the leading presses of the country, occu-
plying at times the most arduous and RESPONSE
Bile positions. This may seem like "blowing
our own trumpet" 30 1t is. But, good reader,
we have right TO blow II, for we have earned
that right; besides, you are entitled to know
whether the REPUBLICAN Is conducted by expe-
rienced or inexperienced men.
very small portiop OF the WEEKLY REPUB.
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