Jeffersonian Republican

PROSPECTUS
OF THE
Jeffersonian Republican,
A new Weekly Paper, to be published at Stroudsburg,
Monroe County, Pa., and Milford,
Pike County, Pa., simultaneously.

"The whole art of Government consists in the art
of being honest."—Jefferson.

THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
in principle, will be all its title purports, the firm
and unwavering advocate of the principles and
doctrines of the democratic party, delineated by
the illustrious Jefferson: the right of the peo-
ple to think, to speak, and to act, independent-
ly, on all subjects, holding themselves respon-
sible to no power for the free exercise of this
right, but their God, their Country, and her
Laws, which they themselves have created.—
A free and untrammeled Press, conducted in a
spirit worthy of our institutions, is a public bles-
sing, a safeguard to the Constitution under which
we live, and it should be cherished and support-
ed by every true republican. Such, then, it is
designed to make the paper now estab-
lished, and as such, the publisher calls up-
on the enlightened citizens of Monroe and Pike to-
aid him in this laudable enterprise. The time
has arrived when the Press should take a bold
and fearless stand against the evidently increas-
ing moral and political degeneracy of the day,
and endeavor, by a fair, candid, and honorable
course, to remove those barriers which section-
al prejudices, party spirit, and party animosity
have reared to mar the social relations of men
without accomplishing any paramount good.
THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
will not seek to lead or follow any faction, or to
advocate and support the schemes of any par-
ticular set of men. It will speak independent-
ly on all State and National questions, award-
ing to each that support which its merits may
demand, never hesitating, however, to condemn
such measures, as in the opinion of the editor is
justly warranted, holding as a first principle:
"The greatest good to the greatest number."
Believing that the great principles of democ-
racy are disregarded by the present Chief Ma-
gistrate of the Nation, Martin Van Buren,
the JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN, will
decidedly, but honorably oppose his re-election
to the high and responsible station which he
now holds.
It will firmly oppose the "Independent Trea-
sury" Scheme, and all other schemes having
for their object the concentration in the hands
of one man, and that man the President of the
Nation, all power over the public moneys, a
power, which, when combined with that vest-
ed in him by the Constitution as Commander-
in-Chief of the American forces, Military and
Naval, together with an enormous official pa-
tronage, would render him more powerful than
the Executive of the British Nation, and in
short make our Government, de facto an Exec-
utive Monarchy.
It will ever maintain that the welfare of our
Country and the preservation of her Republican
Institutions should be the first and only senti-
ments of our hearts in the choice of our public
servants: that honesty, fidelity, and capability,
are the only true tests of merit; that all men
are created equal, and, therefore, should alike
enjoy the privileges conferred on them by the
Constitution without being subject to proscrip-
tion, or coerced by the influence of party.
The columns of the JEFFERSONIAN
REPUBLICAN will ever be open to the free
discussion of all political questions, believing
as we do, that there is no liberty where both
sides may not be heard, and where one portion
of freemen are denied the privilege of declar-
ing their sentiments through the medium of the
Press, because they differ from the majority.
The JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
will ever take a lively interest in the affairs of
Monroe and Pike, and of the Senatorial and
Congressional Districts with which they are
connected.
The Farmer, the Merchant, the Mechanic,
and the Laborer, will each find a friend in the
columns of the JEFFERSONIAN REPUB.
LICAN. Due care will be taken to furnish its
readers with the latest Foreign and Domestic
News, and such Miscellaneous reading as will
be both interesting and instructive. In short it
is designed to make the paper worthy of an ex-
tensive patronage, both from the strictly moral
tone which it will ever possess, and the efforts
of the editor to make it a good and useful
Family Newspaper.
The JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
will be printed on a super-royal sheet of good
quality, and with good type.
Terms—$2 in advance; $2,25 at the end of
six months, and $2,50 if not paid before the ex-
piration of the year. No subscription taken for
a less term than six months.
RICHARD NUGENT.