Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1864-02-17
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UNION OF THE WORLD AND ARGUS

UNION OF THE WORLD AND ARGUS .
TINHE WORLD, to which the New York U,,llv
L Argus has been united, has to day five times
the aggregate circulation Of any Democratic or
conservative newspaper II addresses weekly
alone moro than 100000 Subscribers and constant
purchasers and reaches at least haif d million
readers. With the steady increase in circulation
which 1t now enjoys, these numbers will soon be
doubled. Nothing less than this should satisfy
those who believe that the only hope Of restoring
the Union and the authority Of the Constitution
over now distracted and divided country, lies
in Wrestling power from the hands of those whose
naticism has helped TO provoke, invite, an,
proloug the war and that to accomplish this end
no means is so effective as the diffusion, through
able and enterprising newspapers, Of sound polit-
icnl knowledge among the working men, the
thinking men, and the voting men Of the North.
Enterprise, industry, and money will be liber-
ally expended to make THE WORLD the BEST
NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA. Its news from
every part Of the world will be early and authen.
tic. Wherever the telegraph extends or rail
roads run, or steamboats, ply, it will gather the
latest Intelligence, 1t has large staff Of accom-
plished correspondents with all the federal ar
mics, who will telegraph and write to us the
latest news from tho various seats of war. 1t
has correspondents and reporters in every pOiti-
cal and commercial centre in America and Eu-
rope, whose letters and dispatches will have
I nothing worthy OF note unknown to its readers.
The Market Reports Of the World are more
complete than those of any other newspaper
The Editors invite comparison in this respect
and point to the reports Of the Cattle Markets,
the general and country Produce Markets, and
the Money Markets, in its columns, as proof Of
its excellence in this respect The World has
also a special department devoted to Agriculture.
filed with editorial articles, communications
from practical farmers, and selected matter ma
king valuable and useful paper for the Farmers
! and Mechanics Of the country.
The war in which the nation is engaged
against armed and infatuated Rebels, and the
radical policy of the administration which pro-
| longs it, have conspi.ed to bring together upon
one platform all conservative Union and COnsti-
| tuition loving men, of whatever former name and
creed. Many of those who, within the limits Of the
Constitution, fought the battles of the ballot box
under the leadership of those patriotic statesmen
| Of other and better days, Henry Clay and Daniel
7 Webster, together with the masses whose prnc.
pies were those Of such patriots : Andrew Jack
som and William L. Marcy, Silas Wright and
stephen a. Douglas, now stand shoulder to shoul-
der upon the same platform and under the same
banner. The platform is plain one. 1t is to
restore the Union, maintain the Constitution, and
enforce the Lars. Whatever makes for this end
the exercise Of force or the policy Of Cancellation
the World will advocate whatever makes against
IT, the World will oppose.
1t will oppose every enemy to the Union,
whether armed in rebellion at the South UI
'insidJuusy planting the seeds Of disuuiOn and
essential disoyalty at the North.
IL will oppose every violation Of the Constitu
ion, which is the only hope and bond of Union
and our only authority for exhorting or COMPEL.
ing the allegiance Of the South.
II will oppose every infraotion Of the Law, ir
high places or in low, by reckless and misguided
lpartsans, or by the adminisl alton which has
been their example.
1t will fearlessly exercise the Fresdon Of h'
Press it will constantly uphold and defenC
Freedom Of Speech and Freedom OF the Ballot.
To the lawess acts Of the Administration, III
arbitrary and unjust arrests and eXpatriatious, it
denial of the rights to the writ Of LoJcos corpus
its illegal procamations, its abrogation Of Stat
and federal laws, its despotic accumulations o
ungratcful power, and its subyersions of the safe
guards of civil and personal liberty, il will con
staotly oppose the letter and the spirit Of our su
prone law and the advocacy of sound doctrine
until American freemen shall be reused to th
recovery Of their rights their liberties their laws
and their limited and well-balanced government
by the resistless decision Of the ballot.
Profoundly impressed with the desire to con
tribute all that it may to the great work Of thi
generation, to restore our nationa
y unity, and to place the Uuited States again fore
c most among the nations Of the earth, and first il
/ the peace, prosperity, and happiness Of its peo
, ple-THE WORLD seeks from those who desir
7 such things their sympathy and support, and
, above all, the favor Of Him who crowns ever
), good work,