Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
TO THE PUBLIC.

With this issue of the WING AND
TRIBUNE my connection with its
editorial management ceases. I shall
not weary the public with a minute
recital Of the circumstances which led
to this result; but, for the informa-
ton of my numerous friends, scatter
ed all over Tennessee and elsewhere,
1 feel it my duty to review, to some
extent, my past career as a journal
list.
More than half my life has been
spent in Jackson, as the conductor OF
a public newspaper. Here I have
raised my children, and here expect
to spend the remaining years Of my
life. Pecuniarily, my career as an
editor and publisher, up to the begin
ming of the late unfortunate war, was
really a success. No man ever had a
more generous support than receiv-
ed J.; and, if 1 know my own hsart, i
feel that no man could cherish more
sincere gratitude for past favOrs than
l do.
During the war the public enemy
carried away my excellent printing
establishments, and subsequent pecu-
mary reverses and mistakes in bust
ness arrangements, have tended still
further to reduce my pecuniary re-
sources.
My past history, 1 hope, will leave
no doubt on the public mind of my
entire devotion to the peculiar inter
ests of Tennessee, and, especially, to
the growth and prosperity of this
beautiful City; and 1 may say, with
out mourning the imputation of
egotism, that I have contributed, in
no small degree, to the attainment of
that end. My efforts, i'll this direc-
tion, shall by no means cease, but, ON
the contrary, be stimulated in the
new enterprise in which | have re-
solved to embark, and of which l
shall speak more particularly before
close this article.
1t is scarcely necessary for me to
say that, as former editor of the Vest
Tennessee Wing, always advocated
the principles of the Wing party. 1
did SO from a deep conviction of the
purity and correctness of the princi-
pies and policy of that party. Nor
have changed my sentiments in this
respect. The developments Of the
last twelve years have demonstrated,
by a terrible lesson, how much the
country has lost by refusing to prac-
tice the old Wing creed, and how
much the country would have gained,
in material prosperity and the per-
petuation of good government, had
the wise and honest teachings of the
old Wing party been followed. How
ever, there is no utility in speaking of
this at present. The past is irrevo-
cable. 1t is the future with which we
have to deal.
My lifetime devotion to my chosen
<.oos.tse.a - not nl,o,.t -, sar,,s-:---stev
Having made ample arrangements to
that end, L now announce, that, on
the first Saturday of October next l
shall issue, in this City, the first num-
Der of q newspaper to be called the
" JACKSON CoURIER.' Capt. w. r
Handy, a young gentleman well
versed in the newspaper business,
will be interested with me in this
undertaking and will aid i'll the bust
ness but shall have the guidance |
of the new journal in its editorial
course, without any restriction. This |
control did not really have over the
journal from which 1 have just with
drawn, after the Wing and Tribune
offices were united and hence state,
in justice to myself, that some of the
views editorially expressed in that
journal did not meet my full appro-
baton. This, however, is not intend
ed as a censuIe upon the Wing and
Tribune.
AS to the character of my forth
coming journal, recurrence by the
reader to my former editorial career
in West Tennessee, will give pretty
good idea of my future course. I do
not, and shall not, belong to any ex-
listing political party. Extreme Re-
pubhcanism, or Radiealism, can never
get my support nor can I conform
to the views and sentiments of ex-
IRENE or Bourbon Secession Democ-
'racy. l do not expect to be a parti-
Fan editor. Governed by spirit of
conservatism, looking to the substan-
tial good of the City where my home
is; regarding the glory and prosperi-
ty of the noble old State of Tennes-
see, with her people of all conditions,
and loving and generating the FEEDER
al Union with sentiments of patriot
ism, and firm purpose to do all I can
towards restoring that Union to the |
virtue, glory and prosperity which |
marked its earlier days, shall, as
editor in chief of the jackson Cour-
ier," stand on the deck with.the gov
erning helm in hand, resolved to steer
in those safe channels which lead to |
the blessed haven of national liberty |
and glory, avoiding, on either hand |
the dangerous rocks of prejudice and |
party passion upon which our State
and National fortunes have recently /
been Sc fearfully wrecked. This 1 |
shall surely do, independent of all |
mere party ties, and without reference
to my own mere pecRniary advance
ment. If shall breathe into NV
new paper some of the noble senti- |
ments of the Wing party (now dis
banded in effecD it Will be because
those principles are noble and pure, |
and because they embody and express
the true theory of republican govern
ment and the sacred spirit of genuine
liberty.
The Courier shall be neagspaper
in every sense of the term. It's tone
shall be bold and honest, but decor
GUS and genteel. Justice shall be
done to all races, to all parties, and
to all interests. shall not be guilty,
| in reference to National and State az