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THE AMERICAN REVIEW:
A Whig Journal, Devoted to Politics and Literature.

JAMES D. WHELPLEY, EDITOR; WITH THE ASSISTANCE, IN THE POLITICAL
DEPARTMENT, OF THE HON. DANIEL D. BARNARD.

In the original Prospectus of the AMERICAN REVIEW, issued at Washington by Mr. Colton, its former proprietor and Editor, a number of the leading Whig Members of the Twentyseventh Congress (1845-6,) subscribed their names to the following resolution:

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Earnestly approving the plan of such a National organ, long needed and of manifest importance, the undersigned agree to contribute for its pages, from time to time, such communications as may be necessary to set forth and defend the doctrines held by the united Whig Party of the Union. Signed by Geo. P. Marsh, Daniel D. Bernard, J. McPherson Berrien, J. R. Ingersoll, E. Joy Morris, T. L. Clingman, Daniel Webster, R, C. Winthrop, Thos. Butler King, Hamilton Fish, J. P. Kennedy, J. Collamer, Wm. S. Archer, Rufus Choate, Alexander H. Stephens."

By an agreement with the present proprietors, Mr. Barnard continues his political connection with the Review as an adviser and regular contributor.

engraved portrait of some distinguished person will be found in every number of the Review. These will usually be portraits of living American Statesmen, and whenever that is possible, will be accompanied with an authentic Memoir of the person represented.

The first objects of the Review are of course political: it is designed to set forth and defend the principles, the measures, and the men, of the UNITED WHIG PARTY of the Union. It has been a matter of just reproach to that Party, that, though it embraces in great part the intelligence and learning of the country, it has had no Quarterly or Monthly organ devoted to the expression and defence of its opinions and measures. The conductors of the American Review have done what in them lies to remove this reproach by securing contributions from sources of undoubted ability and truth. It is their intention, if possible, that no Whig in the Nation shall want either Arguments to defend, or Authorities to support his opinions.

The literary department of the Review will agree in spirit with the politic. The conductors believe that there is learning and originality enough in this country to sustain their enterprise to the full.

The Foreign Miscellany of each number will be as authentic as the best foreign papers can make it, and may be referred back to as an accurate chronicle of the times.

TERMS.-$500 a-year. Payment to be called for in advance, or early in the year.

AGENTS FOR THE REVIEW.

CHARLES MAPOTHER, GENERAL AGENT.

CHARLES W.HUBBARD is our travelling agent for the State of New York. HENRY J. ADAMS for the South and West.

Mr. ISRAEL E. JAMES for the Southern and Southwestern States, assisted by James K. Whipple, William H. Weld, O. H. P. Stem, John B. Weld, T. S. Waterman, John Collins, James Deering, Isaac T. Guyer, and R. S. James.

Mr. C. W. JAMES for the Western States, Iowa and Wisconsin, assisted by James R. Smith, J. T. Dent, T. Gardiner Smith and F. J. Hawes, John W. Armstrong, Jassen Tayler, E. M. Stevenson, and W. Ramsey.

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Henry Stockbridge,
Wilson & Heald,
Robert Raiford,
Weld & Co.,
James Sorley,
F. S. Latham,
Geo. L, Weed,
W. R. Rose,
Philo Parsons,
John A. Dolman,
Alex. Wilon,
Albert A. Dúma,

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Newark, N. J. Trenton, 66 New Brunswick. Baltimore, Md. Wilmington, Del. Savannah, Ga. New Orleans. Mobile, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Cincinnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, la. Michigan. St. Louis, Mo. So. Middleton, N. Y.

Dayton, Ala.

Postage on this Review (five ounces) in all parts of the Union, 7 1-2 cents.

AMERICAN REVIEW

A WHIG JOURNAL,

DEVOTED TO

POLITICS AND LITERATURE.

"TO STAND BY THE CONSTITUTION."

NEW SERIES. NO. XXVII. WHOLE NUMBER LXIII.

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TERMS. $5 00 A-YEAR. PAYMENT LIABLE TO BE CALLED FOR IN ADVANCE, OR EARLY IN THE YEAR.

All communications addressed to American Review, 118 Nassau street.

PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1850.

THIS Journal has now passed through four years of its existence, and has a wider circulation through all parts of the United States than, we believe, has been attained by any similar work.

Since its enlargement, at the beginning of 1848, it has increased some fifteen hundred; which, considering the high tone it has continued to preserve, and the solid and valuable matter, from the pens of able writers, it has contained, is, we think, a matter on which we may congratulate the country; as it evinces a growing taste for a less light and ephemeral periodical literature. The calculations of its projectors at the onset were not, therefore, ill-founded, when they supposed that something more substantial was required, and would be appreciated. They found, too, as they supposed, in the country, a great want of an organ to represent and speak for that great body of sound conservative principle and common sense, which forms the solid substratum and basis, as well as the crown and summit of society. The party in politics which represents that body of principle was also without an organ of this character; and therefore it was determined to make their doctrines its leading feature. As the want of such a journal was obvious, its continued support is alike demanded for the political well-being of the nation, and its fair fame in the field of periodical literature. The newspapers, to whom the discussion of politics must otherwise be left, cannot, by their nature, thoroughly elucidate the questions that arise; and a superficial agitation of important subjects tends rather to unsettle than to establish principles. Without such journals, also, we are readers of foreign periodical essays in literature, politics, philosophy, and criticism, to the neglect of the development of our own mental resources and education in this important form; thus taking biases from abroad which disturb the purer influences of our own institutions. So great are the facilities which our laws give to these publications, that it is absolutely the interest of some to decry our own literature whilst purloining that of others; when, at the same time, we are sure that, could we arouse the interest, and command the support of a tithe of those of our people whose tastes and means would permit it, our writers could make this journal equal, perhaps, to any in the world. The material for this, we are sure, exists among us; and for many reasons we believe that better use could be made of it here than elsewhere. But it must have remuneration equal to what it would obtain in other forms, or in other countries. These latter observations will at least indicate the ideal we aim at. That we have done something, however little, towards its accomplishment, we have reason to think, from the decided approbation of the journal expressed by the first minds in all parts of the country, as well as by the steady, and of late, rapid increase of our subscription list.

The new year opens auspiciously. The party, for whose principles we have contended since the commencement of our enterprise, defeated as they were then, but strong in the might of truth, have prevailed. In this victory we verily believe that true Liberty has triumphed over anarchy; peace and prosperity over war and disaster; consitutional law

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