Northern Star, And Warren And Bristol Gazette

NORTHERN STAR,
AND WARREN AND BRISTOL GAZETTE.
Printed and Published
EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY
FOWLER & RANDALL,
Terms. Two dollars per annum—one
half payable at the expiration of three months.
and the remainder at the end of the year, se-
Or Advertisements will be received and in-
serted three weeks on the usual terms of one
dollar per square, and 20 cents for every subse-
quent publication of the same.
( Advertisements will be continued till
forbidden, unless the term of continuance be
specified.
Or All communications for this paper must
be directed to the publishers, postage paid.
PROPOSALS
For publishing in the town of Warren, a
weekly Newspaper to be entitled the
NORTHERN STAR,
AND WARREN AND BRISTOL GAZETTE.
The subscribers having made ar-
rangements with the publisher of the
Telegraph, for the discontinuance of
that paper, propose to issue, on the
twenty-fifth of February, a publick
newspaper with the above title, to be
devoted to the support of Agriculture
Commerce and Manufactures.
That two commercial towns, of the
importance and respectability of War-
ren and Bristol, should be for the space
of fifteen years almost entirely destitute
of a newspaper, is unparalleled in the
annals of our country. Warren, with
a population of two thousand souls, and
three thousand tons of shipping em-
ployed in the West India trade, to-
gether with a large amount of proper-
ty vested in the coasting business ; and
Bristol, with three thousand four hun-
dred inhabitants and a larger commer-
cial capital than Warren, have been for
a long time dependant upon the larger
towns, their rivals in trade, for a Press
to assert their just rights. make known
the extent of their foreign and domes-
tick trade and their consequent im-
portance in the commercial world,
During this age of enterprize and
improvement, newspapers have sprung
up in every village and hamlet through-
out the United States, Even that ex-
ensive country west of Albany, which
but a few years since was only a resort
of the hunter, is now teeming with
publications scientifick, literary, re-
ligious and political. Every landing
place on the Erie canal is supplied
with a minister a school master and a
printer. And shall it be said that War-
ren and Bristol, both celebrated for
their wealth and enterprise ere Daniel
Boone felled a tree in the Western
world, are behind these infant settle-
ments in point of literature and gen-
oral information?
Those sectional feelings which have
for many years divided the Northern
and Southern parts of this State, have
been as deeply felt in Bristol coun-
ty as any other. Situated between the
counties of Providence and Newport,
prey to the interests of both, she
has seriously felt the want of that influ-
ence which a well conducted journal
will always have over the minds and
actions of a free people.
The subscribers are well aware of
the ill success which has attended ev-
ery attempt to circulate a paper in this
county and are more willing to attri-
bute it to those little jealousies which
have for a long time existed between
the towns of Warren and Bristol; and
which it shall be their aim to do away,
than to any unwillingness on their part
to encourage a publication based upon
liberal principles and intended to sup-
port the true interests of the people.
They will labour to make their paper
worthy of a liberal patronage, and
pledge themselves that the enterprize
shall never fail for want of attention
on their part.
With regard to politicks they bind
themselves to no set of men; and will
never be a tool in the hands of party or
individuals. They will warmly sup-
port the Constitution of the United
States, and never swerve from the
existing administration.
Although they will ever maintain that
freedom which the Constitution intend.
the press to have, they will never
permit it to become the vehicle of pri-
vate malice or of publick scandal.
SAMUEL M. FOWLER.
CHARLES RANDALL.
TERMS
The Star will be published on a me-
dium sheet and issued to subscribers, ev-
ery Saturday morning, at two dollars
per annum, one half payable at the end
of the first three months.