Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-01
PIX o P e 6 r o s
THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,


throughout the country, than II has been hero
toforo. In making this statement we do not
wish to be understood as apologiEing, In any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WEEKLY
REPUBIIcAE. II has been worth all that we
have charged for 1t. Prosperity In the world,
for which we arc partly indebted, and exceed
ingly thankful, to our numerous patrons, war
rants us in promising to make stu better
paper ofthe WEEKLY REPUBLICAN In the future,
at tie Sdms price, than It 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 al
that We promise.
The facilities afforded us TO produce a tho
rough national newspaper arc greater than are
enjoyed by the publishers Of any other journal
in the country, for the following reasons;
LIST. The REPUBLICAN is published at WASH
lngton City, the seat Of the National Govern
ment.
Cd. THE President OF THE UNITED srArEs
being authorized by an act Of Congress 10 select
one paper a. the Official medium Of all the Exc
cutive 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
tho Court Of claims Of the United States, sever
ally cit here during each year, and we employ
a corps Of able REPoRTERs, whose duty It Is
to furnish the daily records Of those high trl-
bunala.
4th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations Of the Army and Navy Of
the United States, by virtue Of tho relations eX-
listing between the Government and the Ma
TIoSAL RRPUBLIcAE, referred 10 above, nothing
that Ia proper TO publish, Of Military and Naval
operations, can OF shall escape our notice.
9Th. Our Foreign Relations" now mere
important than ever, will be the Gubjcct 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. Bone Of the ablest writers
In the United States are frequently employed 70
discuss the subject In the RKPUBAIoAN.
7th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
10 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
several Bureaus of the Interior Department
will not be overlooked In the WEEKLY RHPUB-
LIoAN. 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 ONCE, being within Ave
minutes walk OF our Office Of publication, It
will be On easy matter, as 1t 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
every class in society congregate here-military,
naval, and civil officers Of the General and
State, and territorial governments representa-
tiyes OF every branch of business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-deputatlons OF citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and theo-
logians Of every stripe, who come in focks,
some for office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all of these Corners
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 uncivil repre-
sentatives of every foreign nation on the earth,
are found here, and cannot act or move unher-
aided by our active attaches.
Above, In a general form, We have given
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 Journal in the United States. The
highest evidence Of this, which relieves us from
the charge Of egotlsm, 10 the fact witnessed all
over the nation daily (by those who care to OBJ
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 naval
operations, odilcial and otherwise, from the
columns Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. This
Is true in face Of the well known fact that
many Of the proprletors Of those journals pay
enormous sums OF money yearly TO "ABso-
clated Press" and Especial Correspondence, %
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 of the most important
dispatches they send over the wires at an ex-
pense OF four cents pr iSord, by credlting them
10 the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In JUS
uce should do. We especially think they
should credit us when they encroach so far as
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their oUn compositions. However, we beg par
don for ohls complaining aggression, and will
not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
ness, a compliment 10 our industry on the part
OF these plaglarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support al
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy OF the present Administration, while
that policy Is for FREEDOM In Its broadest and
highest sense, and against aGvSrv. When hs
present, or any other administration, purstSs a
different course on The question Of human slavery
zoe shall oppose Nth our might and main, Ged
helping us, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news OF the day
will always receive prompt and careful stten-
ton.
The Literary Department Of the REPUBLICAN
will be supplied with choice, selected and ORR
ginal prose and poetry, from the abIest writer's
In this country and in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns Of the REPUBLICAN that will offend
the susceptibilities Of the most refined.
In brief, We purpose making the REPUBLICAN
FAMILY Newspaper of the highest and most
complete order.
1t is but proper and just to our readers to say
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
of Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspaper
men in the broadest sonse Of tho term. The
principal Editor, and his clief Assistant, have
both been engaged for more than twenty years
1--WE are both young men ye y as Journalists
upon the leading presses Of he country, occu-
plying at times the most ardlous and RESPONSE
BILE positions. This may sem like "bloWinR
our own trumpet" 30 II is. But, good reader,
we have right TO blow 1t, ior we have earned
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