The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-06-08
NETWORK TRIBUNE.

NETWORK TRIBUNE.
We are on the eve of another Presidential Flee
ton. Let none fancy that since it is approaching
so calmly, it will be conducted sluggishly and ter
minated without excitement. Whoever cherishes
such illusion mistakes the character Of the Amer
lean people and the impulses which sway them
Equally idle is the imagination that Party lines are
to be etfaced and broken down in this contest-that
the prestige of some heroic achievement the gilt
ter Of epaulec is to chase from the popular mind
all memory of the radical differences Of sentiment
which have so often arrayed one-half our country
men in fierce conflict with the other. Idle chime
ras these offspring Of an empty heart or sickly
brain! With the progress of events particular
measure may become more or less important, the
emphatic assertion of certain principle more or
less essential, but the question OF questions remains
and will remain. At one time, the establishment or
maintenance of Sound and Uniform Currency; at
another, the upbuilding and chershing of new or
feeble branches of Home Industry; at another, the
proper disposition of the Proceeds Of the Public
Lands at a fourth, Peace or War, SpoIiation or
Justice; but underneath all these, mghter than
any more enduring thar all, lives ever the eemen-
tai difference in which parties have their brighton
side the idea that Government should be Crea-
tive Constructive, Benefcent; on the other, the
negative skeptcal, do-nothing element, whose
axioms are "Ihe best Government is that which
governs least,' "The People are inclined to expect
too much from Government" &c.-which sees in
Canal, a Railroad a Uarbor, a Protective duty only
a means of enrchng few individuals at the eX
pense of the community, and which cannot conceive
how any can be benefited by public work without
intcting injury in at least equal measure upon
Others The fundamental aXioms Of this negative
philosophy really hostile to Common Roads and
Common Schools required and sustained by Law, as
well as to those elements of National well-being
against which it now directs the energies of great
party. The antagonism Of sentiment growing out Of
these conflicting views Of the nature and true ends
of Government cannot in the nature of things, be
lastingly compromised; it cannot be terminated by
the result of any Que election. Unjust be potential
~ felt in the party contests and popular agltations
OF many years to come.
On this and all the great questions growing out Of
it, The Tribune maintains emphatically the doc
trne Of the Wing Party. 1t advocates Protection
to Home Industry, wherever such Protection may
be needed and to the extent of the necessity; Ma
tional Currency, sound and Of uniform value, com
posed of Coin and Paper in such proportions as
public interest and general convenience shall dictate;
Internal Improvement, by the General and State
Governments, each i'll its own sphere, and by Asso-
ciations literally melted thereto by such facilities
as Legislation may safely and justly afford; and
such disposition Of the Public Land Proceeds as
shall secure the benefit thereofto the people of all
the States throughout all future time. Above all,
this paper will "study the things that make for
Peace" and strcnuousy oppose the fell spirit of
War, the lust of Conquest and the passion for Mill
iary Glory, morally adverse to all the ideas Of
Social and Political Economy to which it is devoted,
as Il mildew to genuine Democracy, as utterly ut
variance with Christianity, and rs a scandal to the
Nineteenth Century. These views will be faithfully
and fearessly commended to public favor; while
our opposition to the Extension Of Human Slavery
over one foot of soil where it has not now legal
existence shall be unsparing, uncOmprOmising and
subject to no consideration of Party advantage or
Presidential triumph. Far sooner will we sink
with our principles than succeed without them,
however desirable success or however mortifying
defeat.
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all classes of readers by the fullness of its inte-
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