To these w ill be added a notice of all
new discoveries and inventions which
promise to be useful to mankind, as also
of facts, experiments, and improvements
which may be instructive to the farmer
and mechanic; a summary of news, for
eign and domestic, carefully compiled,
constituting an accurate history of passing
events ; abstract1; of important public doc
uments, an I miscellaneous matter, select
ed and original, instructive and entertain
ing. In line, the object is to funiisli a
newspaper which will present to the far
mer, planter, mechanic, merchant, and all
other raaL-rs, t'le inns interests of those
win live by the cultivation of the soil and
other laborious occupations involving the
interest.! ,f a!! useful trad:, and incite
them always to regard those interests, in
voting for public agents ; to inculcate that
honesty and truth should be the- guide of
every man in public as well as private
life ; that a sacred regard for the rights of
property, as well as personal rights, is
essential to the happiness of man in a
state of society ; that it is only ilirouf h
a fair ballot that we should look for the
correction of existing evils, and the pre
vention of those we fear; and that a true
Democrat should never think of revolu
tion by force until he finds himself depri
ved o! the right of suilrage, or the voice
of the majority is persev eringly stilled by
fraud or frcc at the polls.
