The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-01-13
PROSPECTUS FOR 1864.
THE w ORLD.
-Aa IRaependent De7noer attic Daily Ssnsl
Wochly and Weekly Nswspaper.
UNION OF THE WORLD AND
ARGuS

THE W0RLr, to which the New York
Weekly Argus LAS been united has to-day
hve times the aggregate circulation of any
'emecratic or conservative newspaper. 1t
addresses weekly alone to more than lp0 900
subscribers aud constant purchasers. and
reaches at least hnTf million readers. With
the steady increase in circulation which it
row enjoy. these numbers will soon be dnu-
bled. Nothing less than this should satisfy
those who 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 war, and
that 10 accomplish this end, no means is so
effective as the diffusion, through able and
enterpris ing newspapers, of sound political
knowledge among the working men, the
linking men, and the voting men of the
EOrth
Enterprise, industry and money will be lib
eral expended the world the best newspa-
per in America. Its news from every part OF
he world will be early and authentic =
Wherever the telegraph exterds, or railroads
run or steamboats, ply, it will gather the la
test intelligence. 1t has large staff of ac-
| com mpls he'd correspondents with all the fed
rral armies, who will telegraph and write Ia
| us the latest news from the various seats oi
war. 1t has correspondents and reporters in
every political ana commercial centre il
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
! upon on= platform all conservative, Union
loving and Constitution loving men, of what
| ever former aame and creed. Many of t es'
who within the limits of the Constitution
fought the battles of the ballot box hnde
the leadership of those patriotic Statesmen
of other and better uays, Henry Clay anC
and Dauel Webster together with the masse
whose principles were hose OF such patriot
! as Andrew Jackson and William l.. Marcy
Sias Wright aud Stephen A. Douglas, nov
stand shoulder to shoulder upon the sam
platform aud under the same banner tn
platform is plain one. 1t is 10 restore tn
Union maintain the Constii utiun, and en-
force the laws. Whatever makes for this end
the exercise of force or the poll c OF con lila
tion, THE WORLD will advocate; whlteve
makes against it the WORLD viii oppose.
1t will oppose every enemy to the Union
1t will fearl-ssly exercise the Freedom c
the Press, it will constantly uphold and de
ferd Freedom of Speech and freedom of til
Ballot.
To the lawless acts of the Administration
its arbitrary and unjust arrests and expatris
tious its denial of the right to the writ c
habeas corpus, its Illegal proclaim ations, ii
abrogatiou of State and Federal avs, its des
I potic accumulations of ungranted power, an
its subversions of the safeguards of civil an
! personal liberty, it will constantly aoppos
Il the letter and the spirit OF our supreme Law
and the advocacy OF sound doctrine, unit
American frecmen shall be reused to the re
covery IF their rights, their liberties, thei
laws and theii limited and we'll balanced gov
ernment by the resistless decision OF til
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