The North Carolinian

Of "The North-Carolinian."

The subscriber, having this day purchased of the proprietors, the presses and types of the "North Carolina Journal," begs leave to announce to the public, that he intends, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, to commence the weekly publication of a paper at this place, under the above title.

Duly sensible of the importance of newspaper publications to the community at large, and of the corresponding responsibilities of editors, the editor of the "North Carolinian" only here promises its readers, his industrious efforts and persevering application, to make the paper a useful channel of correct intelligence, upon all subjects of public interest, falling within the range of his limited experience, observation and research.

The columns of the North Carolinian will be freely devoted to the hearty, but temperate and candid support of the measures of the present administration of the general government, on the ground that the editor believes the principles upon which they are founded, to be the same which have always governed the great body of the Democratic Republicans of the country, as contradistinguished from the Federal or National Republicans, who mainly constitute and give character to the opposition party, or self-styled Whigs.

It shall be an object of paramount consideration in publishing this paper, to draw public attention to, and concentrate public opinion more zealously upon, the peculiar interests of North Carolina as an independent State; by often presenting to the reader's observation the State's most prominent claims to distinction and rank among her sister States; by anxiously co-operating with every effort that shall be made for the full development of her vast and yet unemployed resources; and by every other fair means, endeavoring to enkindle and keep alive a manly spirit of State pride, (too prone to be extinguished or kept cold by party bickerings about federal politics.)

As almost every man in the State is to a greater or less extent a planter, the editor will seek diligently to make his paper profitable to the agriculturist by frequent and copious extracts from approved books and periodicals, upon the subject of farming.

The periodical press has been of late, so much enlarged in its circulation, and so much improved in the departments of literature and taste, that the editor would feel he did injustice to the consequently enlightened state of public opinion, feeling and intelligence, if he did not here promise earnestly to lend the aid of his humble capacity, in the general diffusion of literary subjects, through the channel of his paper.

Should the partiality and kindness of the subscriber's friends enlarge the subscriptions so as to justify it, he will discontinue his practice as an attorney in the courts, and devote his time exclusively to his duties as an editor.

H. L. HOLMES.

FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.,

February 1, 1839.