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No. 73. PROSPECTUS OF THE COLU)IBUS EN"QUIRER. L.\MAR fBroa,lside·I UNDER the ahon• title the subscriber proposes to pnl.,lish a News- paper in the town of Columbu:-, [Georgia·! if sufficient patronage can be obtained to warrant the undertaking. 'fhe public scl<lom re<'ein•s the amplified professions usually found in the prospectus of a ~ewspaper as any eYidence of the writers sin- cerity, but generally regards them as matters of course, like those forms of expression which politeness has rendered current "signifying nothing." The subscribed theret'ore will abstain from making any otlwr than what seems indispensib!e to n right understanding of the character of his paper and of the direction which he designs to give to his Editorial labours. THE COLU)fBUS ENQUIRER will be attached to the Republican creed as exemplified in the administration of Thomas Jefferson; and in State politics, adhering to the principles that characterized the late able administration of Oo,·erllor Troup, it will defend "the union of the States and thP so,·ereignty of the States." On the great subject of the uext Presidential Election_, its influence will be given to the democratic candidate most formidable to the men now in office. But it will not be wholly <lerntecl to these matters- a large portion of its columns will be filled with suc:h )fiscellaneous Selections ns are cal- culated to please aucl instruct;- to gratify fancy and to incrense knowl- edge- making it a literary ns well as a political paper. The Editor, desirous to move on in a "noiseless tenor" in the per- formance of his clut.,·, will provoke no personal controversy; and anxious for the restoratio11 of peace and harmon.,· in the State, it will be his constant endea\'Or to allay those party prejudices and turbulent pas- sions that have distractetl her councils and arrayed her fellow-citizens against one anothe1·. When circumstances require him to defend any doctrine or measure that he rna_v approve, or oppose such us he may COJl(lemn, it will be his study to clo it with "hard arguments and soft words," knowing that e,·er.v expression that wounds the pride or kindles the ire of ma11, re1Hlers him the more impervious to renson and obsti- nately wrong. But in II stormy period of party strife and contention, no Editor can hope, by any course which he may pursue, however faithful to truth and t·oneiliaton· to his enemies, to escape what np- pears to be the lot of all- the ·misrepresentations of the prejudiced, and the malice of the wicked. He has onh· to bear it with that for- titude which ,·irtue inspires. The subscr(her is resoh·ed. under all c:ircumstnnces, to adhere to truth and justiee in his mafler; aml, if po!-:sible to moderation in his manner. Whether he will c,·er exhibit a departure from the latter, mui;t depen(l upon the mlinre anrl the degree of the prorncation which he may recei,·e. Sul'h i!- his political c~eed, ancl such arc the feelings with whieh he is about to take upon himself th(~ re!-po11sihilities of irn Editor. )I lRABEAP B. LA:'ilAH. TERMS-TUE ENQUIRER will be prinfc>d on n lnrge sheet, with 11ew type, once a week, at THREE DOLL.AH~ per 1111n. in 11dra11ct•,
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