Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-19
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TIKI WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.

80 ~ poaonb pufpoBe OF the undersigned,
proprietors Of the DAILY and wEEK1r National
REPUBLICAN, " make the latter more thorough
and reliable newspaper for Families and Club.
throughout the country, than IL has been here
Iosore. In making this statement we do not
wish u DO understood as apologizing, in any
manner, 70. the past conduct Of the wHnK1r
RnPuB1IcAN. Il has been worth all that we
have charged for II. Prosperity In the world,
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed.
ingly thankful, TO our numerous patrons, war
rants us In promising to make still better
paper Of tho wnzur RnPUHIIckN in the future,
nj ~ sap.s prios, than Il has beeu in the past.
In MAILING this announcement we do not In
tend 70 enter into an extended detail statement
Of AL the improven Jnts We shall make, but, In
. general way, TO lndicate what we propose
doing, assuring the public that we shall use
our utmost endeayors 70 perform faithfully all
that we promise.
The facilities afforded us 70 produce tho
rough national Newspaper are greater than are
enjoyed by the publishers Of any other journal
n the country, FOR the following reasons.
1st. The REPUBLICAN is published at Wash
ington City, the scat Of the National Govern
mont.
Cd. TIE President OF THE UNITED STATE,
being authorized by an act Of Congress TO select
oas paper as the o1acial medium OF all the Exc
eutfve Departments ofthe Government, we take
pleasure In stating that he has done us the
honor 10 select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the Law Of Congress referred to.
Sd. The Congress and the Supreme Court and
the Court Of claims Of the United States, sever
ally cit here during each year, and we employ
q corps Of able REPORTERS, whose duty Il Is
10 furnish the daily records of those high tri-
bunals.
9TH. Washington being the Headquarters for
an the operations Of the Army and Navy of
tho United States, by virtue Of the relations ex-
isting between the Government and the Ma
TIoHAL REPUBLICAN, referred 10 above nothing
that IA proper to publish, OF Military and Naval
operations, can or shall escape our notice.
5th. Our Foreign Relations" now mere
important than ever, will be the subject Of our
constant and paternal care.
9th. Tho Finances OF the Government, which
always affords an ample field for the journalist,
shall meet with the most careful attention Of
the undersigned. Bone Of the ablest writers
in the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject In the REPUAICAN.
IN. Our Postal arrangements, so important
70 the people Of every community, be 1t large
or small, especially 70 those who can read and
write, are duly noted in the several changes to
which they are subject during the year.
9Th. The great interests represented by the
several Bureaus Of the Interior Department
viii not be overlooked In the WEEKLY RRPUB.
LIcAN. Especially shall we keep our Agrfcul-
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
up concerning everything OF public interest in
tho Agricultural Bureau.
oth. The Patent Office, being within i've
minutes walk Of our office of publication, IL
will be an easy matter, as II will be pleasure
for US to keep the Inventor and Artlzan advised
Of all improvements.
hA Anil In III
In Washington, having already become one of
the highest scientific Institutions in the nation,
We AhAn avail ourselves of the advantages of Its
Bureaus Of Art and Science TO enrich our col
umns for the instruction Of our readers.
18th. Washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men
every class in society congregate here-milltary,
naval, and civil officers Of the General and
State, and territorial acknowledgement
tiyes of every branch OF business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-aeputations OF citizens
for purposes Of State and politicians and theo-
logians Of every stripe, who come in aocks,
some for ofiiee, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all Of these corners
and goers increase our labors, and contribute
10 enhance the value Of the columns OF the Re-
PUBLICAN in come manner.
18th. The Official, civil, and unciyil repre-
sentatiYes Of every foreign nation on the earth,
are found here, and cannot act or move uuher-
aided by our active attaches.
Above, in a general form, we have given
taOelUe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
published in the City Of Washington, possesses
greater facilities for. obtaining all the import
ant news Of the day, OF every description, than
any other Journal in the United States. The
highest evidence OF this, which relieves US from
the charge Of egotism, Is the fact witnessed all
over the nation daily (by those who care to OBJ
serve it) that the leading, widest circulated,
influential al In ha MI aI
States gather the most important Departmental
news, especially of our military and naval
operations, official and otherwise, from the
columns Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. This
Ia true In face OF the well known fact that
many Of the prOprietors Of those journals pay
ciated Press'' and Especial Correspondents, ="
30 called, TO furnish them with the current
news. of the day. We regret TO say, in this
connection, that those correspondents do not
always inform their employers that they are
not the authors Of many of the most important
dispatches they send over the wires at an ex-
pense Of four cents pr nord, by creditlng them
70 the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In JUS
tice should do. We especially think they
should credit US when they encroach SO far as
70 telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their OlOn COMPOSITIONS. However, we beg par.
don for this complaining depression, and will
not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
Loob1 compliment 70 our INDUSTRY on the part
Of these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support as
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy of the present Administration, while
that policy Is for FREEDOM in Its broadest and
highest sense, and dgdirlSt Slavery. WHEN The
pTesent, or any other administration, purNIeS a
different course The question Of hld,, sloyey,,
zoe hal oppose u NTH our might and main, God
helping US, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news Of the day
viii always receive prompt and careful atten-
ton.
The Literary Department Of the REPUBLICAN
viii be supplied with choice, selected and ori-
ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest writers
In this country and in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns Of the REPUBLICAN that will offend
the susceptibilities Of the most refined
In brief, We purpose making the REPUBLICAN
= FAMILY Newspaper Of the highest and most
complete order.
IL ID but proper and just TO our readers TO saw
hat tho Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
If Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspaper
men In the broadest sonse of the term. The
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, have
both been engaged for more than twenty years
I'VE are both young men yet y as Journalists
upon the leading presses Of the country, occu-
plying at times the most arduous and RESPONSE
Ole positlons. This may seem like "blowing
our own trumpet" 30 IL Is. But, good reader,
We nave right TO blow 1t, for we have earned
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