The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-01-20
PROSPECTUS FOR 1864.
THE WORLDLY
Aa Independent Democ, atic Dd'ty, SENT
Hechiy and Weekly Newspaper.
UNION OF THE WORLD AND
ARG Us.

! THE WORLD, to which the New York
Weekly Argus has been united, has to-day
I'VE times the aggregate circulation OF any
democratic or conservative news paper. IL
aiiresses weekly alone TO more than Ieo,uuu
subscribers and constant purchasers, and
reaches at least half million readers. With
the steady increase in circulation which 1t
now ENJOY, these numbers will soon be dou-
| oled. Nothing less than this should satisfy
those VINO believe that the only hope of re
storing the Union and the authority of the
constitution over distracted and divided
couhtry, lies in Wrestling power from the
hands OF those whose fanaticism has helped
To provoke, invite, and prolong the wGr, and
that to accomplish this end, no means is so
eHectlSe as the diffusion, through able and
ehtefprislng newspapers, of sound political
knowledge among the working men, the
thinking men, and the voting men of the
North
Enterprise, industry and money will be lib
eral y expended the world the best ew spa
per in America. Its News from every part of
the world will be early and authentic
Wherever the telegraph extends, or railroads
run, or Steamboats, ply, it will gather the Ia
test intelligence. 1t has a large STAFF of ac-
eonplished correspondents with all the fed
eral armies, who will telegraph and write to
us the latest news from the various seats of
war. 1t has correspondents and reporters in
every political and commercial centre in
America aud Europe, whose letters and dis
/ patches will leave nothing worthy of note
unknown to its readers.
I The war in which the nation is engaged
against armed and infatuated Rebels, and
! the radical policy of the administration which
brolongs it, have conspired to bring together
upen on platform all conservative, Union
! q of u, ~
ever former name ana creed. Many of t2ose
j who, within the limits of the Constitution,
fought the battles Of the ballot box under
the leadership of those patriotic statesmen
of other and batter days, Henry Clay and
and Daniel Wehster' together with the masses
whoSe principles were those of such patriots
/ as Andrew Jackson and William J.. Marcy.
Silas Wright and Stephen A. D Juglas, now
stand shoulder to shoulder upon the same
platform aud under the same banner The
| platform is plSin one. 1t is TO restore the
! Union, maintain the Constit utiou, and en-
force the laws. Whatever makes for this end-
the exercise of force or the poll c, of con lila
! tion, THR WORLD will advocate; whateve,
makes against it the WORLD will oppose.
T 1t will oppose every enemy to the Union.
1t will fearlessly exercise the Freedom et
the Press; it will constantly uphold and de
fepd Freedom of Speech and freedom of the
Ballot.
To the lawless acts Of the Admi nstration,
its arbitrary and unjust arrests and expatria-
tious. its denial of the right to the writ of
haheas corpus, its illegal procianlations, its
abrogation of State and Federal avs, its des-
pOtic accumulation of ungrantsd power, and
its subversions of the safeguards of civil and
personal liberty, it will constantly oppose
the letter and the spirit of our supreme law
and the advocacy OF sound doctrine, until
american treemsn shall be reused to the re-
covery ef their rights, their liberties, their
laws, ana their limited and we'll balanced gov
eminent. by the resistless decision Of the
ballot.