Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-06
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Thu WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.

REPUBLICAN, To make the latter more thorough
and reliable newspaper for Families and ClubG
throughout the country, than II has been here
tofore. In making this statement we do not
wish 10 be understood as spologiEing, in any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WEEKLY
REPUBLICAN. II has been worth all that we
have charged for It. Prosperity in the world,
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed
ingly 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 II has been in the past.
In 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 endeavors 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 following reasons;
1st The REPUBLICAN is published at WASH
ington City, the seat of the National Govern
ment.
Cd. THE President or THE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act Of Congress 10 select
one paper as the official medium of all the Exc
cutiye Departments ofthe Government, We take
pleasure In stating that he has done us the
honor to select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law of Congress referred 10.
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 REPoRTERs, whose duty Il Is
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 "Foreign 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 ablest writers
| in the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject in the REPUBLICAN.
7th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
| to the people Of every community, be 1t 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
will not be overlooked in the WEEKLY REPUB.
LIcAS. 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 II will be pleasure
for US to keep the Inventor and Artlzan advised
OF oil 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 oft
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
every class in society congregate here-mlltary,
naval and civil officers of the General and
State, and territorial acknowledgement
tiyes of every branch of business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-deputation OF citizens
! for purposes of State, and politicians and theo
logians of every stripe, who come in hocAs
] some for office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all Of these comeri
i and goers increase our labors, and contribute
to enhance the value of the columns Of the Re
PUBLICAN in some manner.
! 18th. The official, civil, and uncivll repre-
! sentativcs of every foreign nation on the earth
, are found here, and cannot act or move unher
, aided by our active attaches.
Above, in q general form, we have given
, ,lselve reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published in the City Of Washington, possesses
9 greater facilities for obtaining oil tho import
ant news of the day, OF every description, thar
any other Journal In the United States. The
highest evidence of this, which relieves US from
! the charge Of ogotism, Is the fact witnessed al
r over the nation daily (by those who care to oil
serve it) that the leading, widest circulated
and most influential journals in the United
: States gather the most important Departmental
. news, especially of our military and nava
operations, official and otherwise, from thu
columns Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. Thii
is true In face of the well known fact tha
, many Of the proprietors of those journals pay
, enormous sums of money yearly to "Asso
ciated Press" and Especial Correspondents
so called, to furnish them with the curren
! news of the day. We regret to say, in thil
8 connection, that those correspondents do no
d always inform their employers that they ar
d not the authors of many OF the most importan
dispatches they send over the wires at an ex
. pense of four cents pr irOrd, by creditng then
k TO the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,, as they in jus
tice should do. We especially think the,
h should credit us when they Gncroach so far a
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, as beinl
n Hsir Oton compositions. However, we beg par
i don for this complaining depression, and will
d not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
4, ness, a compliment to our industry on the par
oil these plaBlhTlslS'
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support a
II earnestly as possible the civil and milltar,
/, policy Of the present Administration, Will
. that policy is for FREEDOM in It's broadcast AM
u highest sense, and against SLav'ry. When u.
d present, or any other administration, pIrsues
l. different course on the question Of human SLAVERY
Il nee G,GH oppose Nth our might aud nlaiII Go,
10 helping as, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
!. The domestic aud personal news of the da
!, will always receive prompt and careful atten
IS ton.
Q The Literary Department of the REPUBLICAN
- will be supplied with choice, selected and orr
e glnal prose and poetry, from the ablest writer
In this country and in Europe.
d We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to entc
the columns of the REPUBLICAN that will often
} the suscGptiblitles Of the most refined.
Ii In brief, we purpose making the RgPUBLICA
i, a FAMILY Newspaper of the highest and mos
1t complete order
= 1t Is but proper and Just to our readers 10 sa
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corp
OF Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RI
II PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspape
70 men in the broadest sOnsc Of the term. tn
1t principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, hay
d. both been engaged for more than twenty year
1--WE are both young men yet , as Journalist
e upon the leading presses of the country, occu
a pying at times the most arduOus and responsl
- bic positions. This may seem like "bloWlnl
| Our OWn trumDet,D So il IL. But GOOD reader