Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-01-13
THE OLD qua X D,
A Monthly Magazine, Devoted TO
Literature, Science and Art, and the Political
Principles Of 1875 AID 1897.
c. cHAUNCr BURR, EDITOR.

THIS Magazine was started thrae years ago,
for the purpose OF keeping fresh IN the popular
mind some know ledge Of those grand primer.
ules of Consent and Self-ioveTnment which
were the basis Of this Union as il was establish
ed by our IA hers. Our patrons can say with
what zeal and fearlessness we have explained
and defended those sacred principles OF Liberty,
in The midst CT mobs and bastiles, during the
progress of The war. Though the war IS over,
the objects, the wrongs and fatal precedents 1t
was designed TO establish are not reIinquiShed
by the prnpagsndis:s Of despoti' ID who brought
it about; OH the con rary, they seem deteTmIn-
I'd that there shall be no rest to our country IN
Ill their mischevous and degrading notions are
permanently fastened upon the ruined founds-
lions OF this Republic. SO The OLD GUARD
will remain at IT'S post, still latlling for the
grand doctrines OF State Sovereignty and Con-
stitutional Liberty.
Believing that imminent necessity exists for
the establishment, in the CRY of New York, oil
la fIs,class Democratic Magazine, which shall
rescue American literature from the degrading
faint of negro equality, The Old Guard will be
Enlarged, on the first Of January, TO sixty. hour
pages monthly, in order 10 make room Tor I'M
porlant and inter. sting Literary and Family
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u all lovers Of q genuine American literature
to aid them in their attempts 70 give the public
something purer and better than the noxOus
brood Of magazines which have sown broadcast
Tho baneiul doctrines Of sectional hate and AMI
mostly.
The Ola Guard is pleased 10 announce among
its patrons and contributors for 1866 nearly oil
nd NH
of the country. Among them Hon. Charles
-O'Conor, ex-G Gov. Sey mour, OF CoDnec'icut,ex-
Gov Dana, Of Maine, J. Fl. Van Eyrie, M. d.,
Thomas Dunn English, NJ. D., Hon, James
w. Wall. Of New Jersey, George Fiizhugh and
Hol. Roger A. Pryor, Of Virginia, Henry Clay
Dean, of Iowa, ETC., elO. The increase Of si1e
and the outlay for contributions renders an in
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more than made Up ia the superior ATTRACTIONS
and Improvements.
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We shall commence IL HE January rumbsI
for 1868 a series " Steel Plate Portraits, with
sketches Of the most dI,in golshed oOulberR
Generals, beginning with Gen. Robert l.. Lee.
Among tn sc given will be Generals Stonewali
Jack son, ]. +. Johnston, BeauregaTd, "A. 7. Hill,
Price, Wade Hampton. etc, etc. These pCr-
traits and sketches alone will he worth the price
of the Magazine.
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December 80, 1865. u