Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-04-08
Prospectus of the "Patriot and
Union" for 1865.

say, that the present propretors of this
paper had no mere personal purposes of
gain or ambition in view in taking an in.
terest in its affairs. In fact, they had no
intention in the outset but to help sustain
central organ of the party, which had
secured larger, and more dffused, cir
culation than any other Dem ocratc jour.
nal. The extraordinary condition of our
public affAirs-the assumption Of powers
on the part Of the General Government
not conferred by the Consti.ution-tha ar.
bitrary and tyrannical interference With
the freedom of the press, and with per-
sonal liberty demaud--and still call
for-the most active efforts, and the ut
most self sacrifice on the part of every
true Democrat in the land.
In this spirit, and under these views
alone, the Patriot and Union has been
carried on through the last two years, at
loss to the proprietors Of some two or
three thousand dollars year. Its en-.
ployees had neither Post Office clerkships
nor Librarian appointments it has been
in TACT, almost wholly without any official
patronage whatever. Unwilling, up to
the last moment, to raise the price of the
paper, or do anything that might have
even temporarily the effeo, to lessen its
circulatioNand consequent usefulness, we
have struggled onward to the present, with.
out either taxing our friends, or 9uaiing
before our foes.
Within the last three years, printing
paper has risen from ten to twenty. Gig lit
cent, per pound and VIC declare truth
fully, that each humber sent to our sub
scribers at the club price, cost us more BE-
fore ii passed through the press than ave
receiUed for 1t gler,Uardsi Two dollars
per annum barely pays for the plain, un-
printed sheet. In fact, we have reached q
pon, when the more subscribers we obtain.
at the cub rates Of last year, the worse
for us, pecuniarily.
1t is now we feel we have a right-if
we had not before to appeal to our Dem
ocraIic friends throughout the State, if
they would retain an honest, fearless Dem
ocrat'c organ at the seat Of government,
to do two things for the Patriot e. Union;
sustain us in this small advance in price,
and increase our circulation.
We employ clesr type, Of such size,
however, as to enable US to give more
reading matter than any other weekly po-
ltical paper in or out Of the State-not
even excepting the New York Horld and
Tribune
1t is not our desire to withdraw a sin
gle dollar from the sus,euance Of the local
Democratic press. Where a Democrat
feels compelled to choose between taking
our larger paper aud the organ of his par
ty in his own locality-pass us by.
In the same course Of reasoning, however,
We claim to receive the preference where
the choice lies between our paper and those
of other States
In view of its admirable influence on
the best interests Of life, we never doubted
the divine origin Of the mnxm which in
dicates, tina. true charity begins at home.
Hence we feel in this place compelled 10
remark, that the circular with which tho
State has recently been flooded, signed by
some of our Democratic friends in Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, "urging the i'm.
por.auco of getting up large club at
every post Office" for a foreign weekly
paper. which must be done mainly at the
expense of the circulation of papers Of
their own State and viciuage, was most
thoughtlessly concerted. We complain
not specially, but generally, at this mani =
fest carclesspess Of home interests.
The general supervision and response.
ale business control Of this paper has
passed into the hands Of the Hon. Wm.
H. Miller, as Trustee for the proprietors
and OF John Ii Brimner lately connected
with the Philadelphia Age. 1t is proper
We should say in behalf Of the former,
that he has at present no purpose of enter,
ing specially into the editorial management,
or Of allowing his connection with the pa.
per to interfere in any regard whatever
with bis professional pursuits. The prin.
cipal editorial cares have been otherwise
provided for.
Besides the advantage given to every
Pennsylvania Democrat who becomes a
subscrib to the Patriot and Union, over
those who obtain the weekly papers of N
York, in sharing in the discussions Of hi.
own people instead of poring over those
in which he has neither local or person al
interest-we give faithful reports of the
proceedings of our own Legislature, aud