New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-08
THE NEW. YORK TRIBUNE.

We are on the eve Of another Presidential Election
Let none fancy that; u Il approached 80 calmly II
viii be conducted sggEshly and terminated without eh
element Whoever chershes such an illusion mistakes
the character Of the America People and the Impulses
which sway them Equally idle a ne imssinston INST
PARTY line. are 70 Be eseed and broken down in this con-
testha the prestige Of heroic achievement or the
,tter Of an epaalete Is to chase the popular mind
all memory Of the radical differences Of sentiment which
have 90 often arrav.d one-haf countrymen in fierce
conflict wiz thu other Idle ehimeras these. offspring
Of an empty heart or sickly brain. With the progress
Of particular measure may become more or iess
important, The emphatic assertion Of certain pFneipl
more or less essential bat the question Of questions re-
mains and will remain. At one tine the Establishment
or rnaiateusnee Of Sound and Uniform Currency 81
another the upbasns and ehsrshing Of new or feeble
branches Of Home Industry a. another the proper e'
stion Of the Proceeds Of the Pnbc Lands Al fourth,
Peace or war spolAton or Justice bat underneath al
these rgh.ie than any more enduring than AL hives ev-
er the elemental difference in which parties have their
orgn-on one sds the idea that Government should DC
CREATIVE Constructive BESEFicESr on the otheI the
negative skeptcd do-nothing element whose axiorns
are The best Government u that which governs least
The People Inclined 10 expect too much nom Gov
eminent, ke-wtieh sees in a CANA, Railroad, Har
bor Protective Duty only means Of enrehing few
individuals AZ the expense Of the community and which
eanno. conceive low any be benefited BY public
work without fnatnx injury IN Al least equal measure
upon Others. The fundamental axioms Of this negative
philosophy are really hostile 70 Common Roads and Cor
mon Schools required and sustained BY Law a. wei IS 10
those elements Of National webeng against which II
now direcs the energies Of great party Inc anias
onsm Of sentiment growing out Of these conetins views
Of the nature And true end. Of Government cannot in the
nature Of hias. be lasnsy compromised II cannot Dc
terminated by he result Of any one election IL must
-. in contests popular
tations Of many years to come.
On this aad ell the great questions growing out OF H.
THE TRIBUNE maintains emphaeay the doctrines OF the
Whir Party II advocates PRoTEcrfoS TO HoNE INDUS
Try wherever such Protection may be needed and 70 s
extent Of the necessity; NATioNAL CUSEE>ef' sound
and Of uniform value, composed Of Com and Paper 10
such proportions public interest and general conFen
enc. .b.g dictate; INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, by the
General and State Governments each its sphere
snd By Associations Literally melted thereto by such ta
eities As Legislation may safely and justly sHord and
such di,po,itiou Of the PuBLIc LaSD PROCEEDS shall
,ue n. benefit thereof the People OF all the States
throughout all future time Above all, this paper Will
study he things that make for PEACE and strenuousy
oppose he fell spirit Of War, the lust Of Conquest and
the passion for Military Glory MORALLY adverse to ell
the de.s Of Social and Political Economy TO which Il Is
devoted as mdew genuine Democracy, as utterly al
variance with Christianity and scandal to the Nine
le,,ly commended to public favor; while opposition
10 the Extension Of Human Slavery foot Of soil
where II has not now legal existence shall be unsparng
uncou promising and subject TO consideration Of Party
advantage or Presidential triumph Far sooner will We
sink With our principles than succeed without them,
however desirable however notifying defeat
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al turfn h.
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soua reports Of Public Lectures Of high characters but
it shall be object present fair and full pic
of the real world only varied at intervals by excur
sions into the realm of the ideal.
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