PROSPECTUS 
OP THE 
AND NEW YOEK VINDIOATOE. 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE PAPER 
FROM SIXTY-FOUR TO EIGHTY COLUMNS. 
THE POLITIOAL PLATFORM OP THE RECORD. 
After the publication of the 26th number of the RECORD of last 
year, we increased ITS SIZE from SIXTY-POUR to EIGHTY COL 
UMNS. IT IS NOW THE LARGEST DEMOCRATIC AND FAM- 
ILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES; and, al- 
though our expenses are very heavily increased by the change, we 
supply the paper at the same price. The reading matter is of a 
more varied and interesting character, on account of the greater 
space placed at our disposal, and which is equal to FOUR AD- 
DITIONAL PAGES, or SIXTEEN COLUMNS. We are encouraged 
to this change by the success that has attended our efforts to present 
the public with a paper that has held fast, through every vicissitude, 
to the two cardinal principles of State Rights and Self-Government, 
and that refused amid the fearful conflict of the past four years to 
lower the banner on which those principles were inscribed. We feel 
certain that this effort on our part to render our paper in every way 
deserving of the continued support of our friends, will be met by a 
generous and active cooperation on theirs in enabling us to extend its 
circulation. We know it will gratify them to be told that, despite 
the malice and persecution of our political enemies, despite the sup- 
pression of the Record and the arrest of its editor, despite the official 
power which was wielded to our disadvantage and material injury, 
we have been enabled to weather the storm in which so many went 
