Nebraska advertiser., 1864-04-07
PROSPECTUS FOR 1854
The World:
An Independent Democratic Dali
~, semi-vVeekly and Weekly
Newspaper.
UNION OF THE WORLD AND
ARGUS.

$500
ARGUS.
The World, to which the New York Weekly Argus
has been united, has to-day Eve times the aggre-
gate cireu lation of any Democratic or conservative
newspaper. 1t addresses weekly alone more than
100000 subscribers md constant purchasers. and
reaches at least half a million readers. With the
steady increase in circulation which it now enjoys
these numbers will soon be doubled. Nothing less
than this should satisfy those who believe that the
only hope OfFestoTiDg the Union and the authority
OF the Constitution over a now distracted and d.
vided country, hes in wrestling power from the
hands Of tbnse fanaticism has helped to provoke.
invite, and prolong the war; ond that to accomplish
this end, no means is so effective as the difus;en
thrOuSh able and entsrpFising newspapers. of sound
political knowledge among the working men. the
thinking men, and the vOtingtnen Of the North.
Enterprise, industry and money will be hbeFallv
expended to mike The World the Best Newspaner
in America It's news from every part of tie world
WILDE early and nthentic. Wherever the telegraph
cxtcds, OF railroads run, or steamboats, ply, IL will
gather the latest intelligence. It has . large staff
O~faccotbplished correspondents with all the federal
armies, who will telegraph and write to us the latest
news from he various seats of war. Il has CORES
pOndents GEd reporters in every political and com
mereial centre in America and Europe, whose letters
and dispatches will leave nothing worthy of note
UNKNOWN to its readers.
The Market Reports of the World are more COM
plete than those of any other newspaper. The
Editors invite comparison in this respect and point
to the reports Of the Cattle Markets, the aeneraI
and country Produce Markets, and the Money Mar
kets in its columns, as proof of its excellence in this
respect. The world has also n special department
asrotaa To Asrienlture. 6lled with editorial artiel, 5
communications from practlcaI Iarmers GEa meOi.--
les Of the country.
The war in which the nation is engaged against
armed and infatuated Rebels, and the radical policy
of the administration which prOlongs il, have con
spired to bring together upon one platform all con-
sentative, Union-lovirf and ConstitutiOu-lOying
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 D. of those patriotic statesmen of other ard
better days, Henry Clay aud Daniel Webster, to-
getber with the MOSES whose principles were those
of snch patriots as Andrew Jackson and William L
Marcy, Silas Wright and Stephen A. Douglas, now
stand shoulder To shoulder upen the same platform
lisa plain one. 1t is to restore the Union, mlintain
the Constitution, and enforce the laws. Whatever
makes for this end, the exercise of force of the
policy of Cancellation. The World will advocate;
whatever makes against il, The World win oppose.
1t will oppOte every enemy to the Union, whether
armed in rebellion at the South or insidiously plant
ing the seeds Of disuniOn and essential d~iSloyalty at
the North.
1t viii oppose every violation Of the Constitution,
which is the only hope and bond of Union, and our
only authority for exhOrting or compelling the ale
glance of the South.
It will oppose every infraetion Of the Law, in high
places or in low, by reckless and misguided parti-
sans, OF by the administration which haG been their
It win fearlessly exercise the Freedom of the
Press it will constantly uphold and defend Free
dom of Speech and Freedom Of the Ballot.
To the lawless acts Of the administration, It's
arbitrary and unjust arrests and expatriations, its
denial Of the right to the writ of habeas corpus, its
illegal prcelamations, its abrogation of State and
federal laws, its despOtic accommodations OF migrant
cd power. and its subversions of the safeguards of
and %pertOnal liberty, it will constantly Opdose
the letter and the spirit of our supreme law and the
advocacy of sound doctrine, until American free
shall be reused to the recovery Of their rights,
heir liberties, Their laws, and their limited and
balanced government, by the r~esistless decision
Of the ballot.
Profoundly impressed with the desire to contri-
all thas it may to the great work of this gener-
ation ,-nameIy, to restore our national unity, and
10 place the United States again formost among the
nations of the earth, and fist id the peace pros
Derity, and happiness of its people.-The World
seeks from those who desire such things their sym
md support, and, above all, the favor Of Him who
crowns every good work.