Daily Ohio Statesman

To the Readers and Friends
OF THE
OLD OHIO STATESMAN.

We have this day considerably enlarged The Daily Ohio Statesman, and now print it on plain and handsome new type, and clear white paper.

In politics, The Ohio Statesman is, in War as in Peace, for the Country, for the Constitution, and for a Union of equal States, with equal privileges, and with equal and exact justice to all its citizens. We are for the old Flag, with not a Star or Stripe erased, and the old Union as far as it is possible to restore it, and for the existing Constitution, in its spirit, letter and purpose.

Upon the coming events of the year, rest the hopes of the People and Government. We are in the midst of a bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration and close depend upon a wiser, truer and more patriotic policy than we have seen during the present Administration. We owe it to the memory of our fathers, and to the hopes of our children, to the future of our country, and to the best interests of mankind, to change a policy which is drifting us farther and farther from the landmarks of our patriotic sires.

The Statesman will do all it can for those purposes, and hence, the publishers invite support and encouragement from all those who, while wishing for a good Newspaper, also wish to have a sound Constitutional journal.

We publish a paper in which we seek to give the TRUTH. Our Commercial Reports, our Markets, our Political and General News, are carefully freed from sensation character, and we seek to make THE Statesman trustworthy in every particular.

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