The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-08
HvHE TRIBUNE FOR 1864.
PROSPECTUS.

The NEW YoRR TRIBUNE, first issued April 10,
lS4l, has to-day larger aggregate circulation than
any other newspaper published in America, or 1--WE
believe) in the world. Compelled year since to
increase the price Of its several issues submit to
the pecuniary ruin of its proprietors from the very
magnitude Of its circulation, it has probably since
parted with some patrons to whom its remarkable
cheapness was controlling recommendation; but
others have taken their places, and it has now more
than Two Hundred Thousand subscribers and reg
ular purchasers-an excess of at least Fifty ThOn-
sand over those of any rival And this unp ecedent
cd currency it has achieved by very liberal expen
ditures procuring early and authentic intelligence
by the fearless expression of convictions by the free
employment of ability and industry wherever it
might contribute to excellence in any department
of our enterprise and by unshrnking fidelity to the
dictates of Justice Humanity, and Freedom.
By very large OUTLAWS for early and authentic adj
vices by telegraph and otherwise from its own cor
respondents with the various armies of the Unionj
and by special efforts to furnish such information
respecting Markets, Crops, rev discoveries or i'm
provemeuts in Agriculture, &C., must specially
nterestlarmyrs we have assduousy labored to
make journal calculated to meet the wants and
subserve the interests of the Producing classes
That end we have at least measurably attained for
no other newspaper exists in America Europe
which is habitually read by nearly many farmers
and their families is The Tribune to-day. We
shall labor to increase both the number and the sat
isfaction of this by far tho most class oil
its patrons.
During tho existence of the Wing party, this pa
per supported that party, though always sympathi-
zinwg it'll the liberal, progressive, Anti Slave
ry wing" thereof. When issues dissolved or
transformed old organizations through the spouta-
neous uprising of the Missouri Restriction. THE
TRIBUNE heartily participated in that movement,
and was known as Republican When the long
smoderng conspiracy to divide and destroy our
country or reduce it entire to complete abasement
to the Slave Power eliminated in overt treassn and
rebellion it naturally, necessarily regarded resist
ance to this conspiracy paramount to all other
considerations and devoted all its energies and eff
forts to the maintenance of our Union. In every
great controversy which has divided our country il
has been found ON that side which naturally COM
mands the sympathy and support of the large ma
jorty of school-houses and the decided minority of
grog shops, and as doubtless will be to the last.
Ardently desiring and striving for the early and
enduring adjustment of our National distractions
THE TRIBUNE leaves the time, the nature and the
conditions of that adjustment implicitly to those
lawfully in authority, eonhding in their wisdom
and patriotism, anxious to aid them to the utmost
in their arduOus responsibilities and not to embar-
them even by possibility. Firmly believing in
the Apostolic rule" First pure, then peaceable'-
holding that the total and nal exrpation of Slave
ry is the true and only absolute cure for our Ma
tOnal ills-that any expedient that stops short of
this can have but a transient and illusory success
we yet PROFOUND no theory of reconstruction" and
indOrse none that has propOunded by another
neither Summers, dor Writings, nor any of the va
rious Copperhead devices for achieving Peace" by
surrendering the Republic into the power of its
traitorous foes-but exhorting the American Peo-
pie to have faith in their Government to reinforce
their armies and replenish their treasury, we be-
leve that if they but do their duty, benign Provi-
dence will in due time bring this fearful struggle to
such close as will best subserve the true great
ness of our country and the permanent well-being
of mankind
unexpectedly solicit the subscriptions and active
exerlions of our friends, and of all whose views and
convictions accord substantially with ours
Nsw York, Sept 10, 1868.