Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-11-15
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL
WILMINGTON, n. c.,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1866.
The Daily journal.

desiring TO manlIeSt our en|snhS AoA 'iAo
generous iberality extended to our efforts
to maintain first class newspaper In this
CITY. in some practical and adequate man
ner. we have concluded that this could best
be done by such an increase in the size of
our sheet as will enable us to do full justice
to our subscribers, while accommodating our
advertising patrons We, therefore, pre-
sent The Daily Journal to our readers, to-
day, very much enlarged and improved.
Our friends will bear US witness that we
seldom make illusions to ourselves in these
columns. We have been content to de-
serve and receive the favor of our friends
and make the best return we could by Civ
ing them a paper, containing the most i'm
portant and latest news of the day, and our
own views of all questions of public inter
est urged with candor, impartiality, dignity
and honesty. When VIC resumed the pub
LEGATION of the Journal, something over a
year ago, we felt as well assured of the sup
port of people for our paper, which, fol-
more than twenty years had been honestly
devoted to what was believed to be thei1
best interests as we are to-day, when en-,
couraged by that support, we add largely
to our labors, our responsibilities and our
expenses. We expected, so soon as means
and mail facilities would enable them to do
so, our old friends would rally to our sup
port, while we determined to attach new
ones to us, by our efforts to furnish desi-
rable paper. In this we have not been dis
appointed. The confidence we felt i'll the
generosity and steadfastness of our friends
was well placed. They have, with but few
exceptions, and these mostly from neces-
sity, not Only met us with good wishes, but
extended to us more substantial expressions
of favor, which have been not only crafty
ing to us personally, but we have regarded
it as manifesting their confidence in our
efforts as editors, to give them paper
worthy their patronage.
What the Journal has been, it will con-
tinue to be. We shall do all in our power
to urge upon our people their duties as cit
liens under the present condition of poll
teal affairs, with an eye single to their
welfare and the good of the common
country.
Believing that the prosperity of the State
depends upon the advancement of our Ag
ricultural interests more than all else, we
subject. And among the most important
questions affecting this branch of industry,
being that of reliable and sufficient labor,
We shall not only encourage immigration,
but urge upon our people the propriety
and necessity of taking charge Of, and ed
ucating the freedman, and not giving up
this important, and, we believe, vital matter
to strangers, who feel no interest in them
and are too frequently hostile to lis.
We shall devote ourselves to the manu-
featuring interests of the State, now in its
infancy, believing that with return of pros
perity, this branch of industry will go hand
in hand with our advancement and will
prove the pioneer of future wealth and
strength.
Closely allied to these, and upon which
they are greatly dependent, is the compile
ton of our unfinished works of internal i'm
provement. To complete the great lines of
Railroad, now in course of construction,
intended to connect the interior with the
seaboard, and develop the great wealth of
the State, is the first and most important
subject with which we must grapple for
these accomplished, the recuperation of
North Carolina is certain and rapid, and the
relief to the people, so eagerly demanded
and so absolutely necessary, will be assured
upon an honorable and lasting basis. We
shall therefore zealously advocate such in
direct aid on the part of the State as will
not add to the taxes of the people OF in
crease the Indebtedness of the State, but
by exchanging one interest for another,
enable these works to be completed, and by
increasing very largely the value of the tax
able property of the State, decrease the
burdens of the people.
Our labors and responsibilities so largely
added to by the enlargement of our paper
we very cheerfully and willingly assume
and for the additional expenses we rely
upon the increase of business and patron
age which we trust we shall merit and re-
ceive. We can only promise that we shall
spare no effort to make The Journal worthy
the patronage of the intelligent and liberal
public who have so long given it their sup
port.-Daily Journal, 1871.