The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-02-03
PROSPECTUS FOR 1864.
THE WORLD.
In Independent Democratic Duly, Semi
Weekly and Weekly Newspaper.
UNION OF THE WORLD AND
ARGUS.

THE WORLD, to which the New York
Weekly Argus has been united, has to-day
five times the aggregate circulation of any
Democratic conserv vative newspaper. 1t
addresses weekly alone to more than 10000
subscribers and constant purchasers, and
reaches at least half million readers. With
the steady increase in circulation which it
now enjoy, these plumbers will soon be dou-
b1ed. Nothing less than this should satisfy
those who believe that the only hope of re-
at oring the Union and the authority of the
Constitution over a distracted and divided
couhtry, lies in Wrestling power from the
hands of those whose fanaticism has helped
to provoke, invite and prolong the war, and
that to accomplish this end, no means is so
effective As the diffusion, through able and
enterpiising 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 v exp, nied the world the best newspa-
per in America. Its news from every part OF
The world will be early and authentic
wherever the telegraph extends, or railroads
hum or steamboats, ply, it will gather the Ia
Hest intelligence. 1t has n large staff of ac-
tcomplished correspo ndcnts with all the fed
eral armies, who will telegraph and write to
| us the latest news from the various seats ol
war. 1t has correspondents and reporters in
! every political and commercial centre in
America and Europe, whose letters and dis
patches will leave nothiug worthy of note
unknown to its readers.
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
npon on platform all conservative, Union
iny;po apd Constitution. lov iuu men Of w hat
ever former name and creed. Many of t'oss
who within the limits of the Constitution
fought the battles of the ballot box under
the leadership of those patriotic statesmen
of other and bettsr days, Henry Clay and
and Daniel Webster together with the masses
whose principles were those of such patriot:
as Andrew Jackson and William J.. Marcy
Silas Wright and Stephen A. Juglas, nov
stand shoulder to shoulder upon the same
platform and under the same banner Th'
platform Is plain one. 1t is to restore the
Union, maintain the Constitution, and Ell
; force the laws. Whatever makes for this end
the exercise of force or the poll cyof ccnt il a
tion THE WORLD will advocate; VIII ateve
makes against il the WORLD will oppose.
II will OPP ose every enemy to the Union
1t will fearlessly exercise the Freedom o
the Press; it will constantly uphold and de
f-rd Freedom of Speech and freedom of tn
Ballot.
To the lawless acts of the Administration
its arbitrary and unjust arrests and expatria
tOns. its denial of the right to the writ @
= haheas corpns, its Illegal proclaim ations, it
abrogation of State and Federal avs, its des
potic accumulations of ungranted power, an
it's subversions Of the safeguards of civil an
personal liberty, it will constantly oppos
the letter and the spirit of our supreme LAY
and the advocacy of sound doctrine, unit
> American freemen shall be reused TO the re
covery ef their rights, their liberties, thei
> laws, and theii limited and we'll balanced gov
ernment. by the resistless decision of th
| lot.