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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[ January, 
TIE TRIBHBfE FOR 1864. 
Tin: New-York Tribune, first issued April 10, 1841, has 
to-day a larger aggregate, circulation than any other news- 
paper published in America, or (we believe) in the world. 
Compelled a year Bince to increase the price of its several 
Issues, or submit to the pecuniary ruin of Its proprietors from 
the very magnitude of its circulation, it has probably since 
parted with some patrons to whom its remarkable cheapness 
was a controlling recommendation ; but others have taken 
their places, and it has now more than Two Hundred Thous- 
and subscribers and regular purchasers— an excess of at leaBt 
Fifty Thousand over those of any rival. And this unprece- 
dented currency it hasachieved by very liberal expenditures 
in procuring early and authentic intelligence, by the fearless 
expression of convictions, by the free employment of ability 
and industry wherever it might contribute to excellence in 
any department of our enterprise, and by unshrinking fidel- 
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By very large outlays for early and authentic advices by 
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the various armies of the Union, and by special efforts to 
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discoveries or improvements in Agriculture. &c, as must 
specially interest farmers, we have assiduously labored to 
make a journal calculated to meet the wants and subserve the 
interests of the Producing Classes. That end we hare at least 
measurablyattained ; for no other newspaper exists in Amer- 
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Bhall labor to increase both the number and the satisfaction 
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During the existence of the Whig party, this paper support- 
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against the repudiation of the Missouri Restriction, The 
Tribune heartily participated in that movement, and was 
known as Republican. "When the long smoldering conspira- 
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complete abasement to the Slave Power culminated in overt 
treason and rebellion, it naturally, necessarily regarded re- 
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divided our country, it has been found on that side which 
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