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ty of this com, ha a deviation might be regarded as hazardous, and a p..per professing to belong to no political t, for chat re 551, be kable to iner the di ..e of all.Notsithstanding the temper of the times,at I the habit of the press in this particular, the cditor cannot but hope a more favourable result from bis attempt to cultivate another taste, by making T RURAL VISITER a vehicle of useful and agreeable information to country people; information unmingled with bitterness and falsehood, designed to promote the felicities of a rational existence, and to gratify the desires of a laudable curi

As continels upon you re vent, c.4 the vivocates of constitucional herty, poitical journals might red Cought to Save, in united 1 in their

and honest can bated, a most salu.ary intlucace: buc a dej,cncracy, bale ful as it is universal, has fallen up the Ligh office of the Press; it has co osod to be th friend of man an i the candid exposer of his rights and duties, it no lenges, even in profession, embraces the cem onwealth of citizens seeking to expos ti cir feelings or -entiments: through its perverson, one hair of the community is set agamst the other, a systematick proscription and opposition is un ali sides maintained, and troth, utility, and true patriotist: have lost their way and their influence amidst the culicts of party and the sumptions of ignorance and scishness. The publick mind, always indeed airing to be informed, is perplexed, and even confoundied: subjects which it concerns a free and virtucus people to comprehend, and judge upon with a cool understanding, are obscar-1

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ed and distorted through the agency of party new shapers: violent, if not sometimes venal, citors present to their respective subscribers, cxa"nated and contradictory stateinents: comience in the wisdom and virtue of our best aton is thereby lampaired, and this greet Repablick, (if the for purge and representations of these gazeites abetme) would Serin in is fast stage of an phong to be sinkng huneath corruption and1, becility: and it is to be feared, indeed, if they procedia this Career, the time is not hard. tout when fi ese c damites will be realized upon a drecived and divided co antry.

On this troubled se, the editor int nås not to adventure has litde bak. he has not the recolation, even were he inclined, to enge,” in the ront ct of such, angry dement If others take the care of our Jublck liberties, and assume to direct the govemment, be their the boner and the rearid. the pblisher of a small sheet for the country, be excused for choosing to follow an humoker path, he is content to leave the commonwealth to real statesmen and politicians; and if the gizations will not agree to this, then he hits its direction to primers for a pertv, aa ito nades who pia their faith y pon a 1 timne is not yet come when trole, cca 45i respects poliacal ther sker tions, is deemed worthy of common solci tade and common support

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vel cotanion apprehension, and redact tactical use. La mon in ·Le onliney and cahrt ruits Busi... and in shed, for mistar, as to give plain acc of new inventions and discoveries in phi'sIt is to du ho- 1 sophy, medicine, and the useful arts; disco| vries tending to the prescrrauca of life and head), to save or aozist labour, produt cheapness, confort and crmony in living and effect bei beli reqs of various kn. to the agriciais, mondaturus, architect mechanick and Ebouer. We pur

make til avevanasing as veli is pres part of our repo itory: It will occasion ! branch it it to aln Steve departmen badian cupacion: and the head of &ndry, for instance, we shal exhibit 65.13, advices and hints in regard to prove nibyla he me hod of rerring hover, cattle and steer-i, the culture of hosp grassés, grain and hule in the friptic: and uses of mannes--in the constructio farming implements, and in clearing, di eu ing and incising of lar: indeed our at n The propagation of peculiar and personal | tion will be closely drawn to whatever 125, opinious and creeds, whether relating & re-comected with the great interests of the ho hucks, or other subjects, on which parties downer and tenant, firmly believing as we d. sects seem resolve to differ, will be sedu- that the real wealth and strength and en lously avoided in the columns of the Visiter. the duration of a publick, depends upon th The editor deck res an impartial neurolity, happy and fadeyended condition of the and old fashioned as it may appear, all his tivators of its cl. powers will be directed to make his weekly repository welcome, or at least ineffusive to every one: This he hopes for by its devouon to innocruce, to ti "band utility, and, in the admirali - Janguage of Lord Baton, by ma.