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L TRIBUNE Is now in tho middle of its if
teen year Vol Nv. Of its weekly issue common
ccd ON the LIST Of September last. The American
public need not now be made acquainted with its
character or claims to consideration. With but
subordinate regard for prudence, policy or popular
ity it has aimed to stand for righteousness, for
Truth for Humanity, against fortified Iniquity,
Fraud and Oppression. There is not a slave trader
on this Continent, though he never read anything
but his bills Of sale md notes-payabc, who does
not know and hate THE TRIBUNE; there is not
an extensive iabrcntor Of druggod and poisonous
Liquors who does not consider it a very dangerous
and immoral paper, md wonder why its publication
is tolerated in a commercial, cottun-buyiug city
like New York. The Newark Mercury once iorc-
bly, remarked that 1t had never known nara, grip
ing, scrcwinr. nvarciods employer WHO was not
hostile TO THE TRIBUNE, nor ono omincntly gem
erous and kindly who did not like II. Prompt and
pluiu-spoken in its dcnuncatious of Miluity and
abuses of power, while claiming no exemption from
human inlhbilty, it may have done temporary in
Justice +, individuals, but it has never been undith-
ful to Principle, nor deaf to the cries Of the wrong
ed aud suffering. In its columns tic advocates of
novel and unpopular theories contemplating the
melio-ation OF human woes, especially those OF the
yuiccless and down.troddcu, have ever found audi
cncc and hospitality while it has urlcnly resist
cd and will pcrsistcutly combat, every attempt to
prescribe and degrade any class because of diver
stiles of Nativity, Creed, or Color.
In defiance of caumnies the most ntrocious, and
Of hostilitics the most deadly and untiring, THE
TEfDTNE has grown steadily il public appreci-
ntion from the dnv of its origin Its means OF scrv-
ip, tho pnhlic have been augmented in proportion.
Instead of single c iitor with ono or two assist.
ants. its organization now COMPRISES a numerous
nod, r ,ytitar. each fitted nv sperial occtnplish.
-, ,rI ,.,,riorco fr a., t,r,i.nl,r linz al dis
,,ssi,, 10 Which his non IL lcvotcd tho daily
,,r,n, Of re,din, matter rive, moro Than ou,dr,i
Mas tbot ~ a. s,rIicst is.uo. II san Of valued
carrosno,,lc,s crrircIrs tho ciobe transmitting
ri and intolli,ert narrotin,s f ,ybotcyrr is nosf
rr;t.,r ntt,niion ,vliIn p,.Ii,ics I.yi.l,tinn
fit,r,tp,o Art Ili.trrv-ir s,ori whatever fleets
tho sci,l ,yoIIbein, of inonkirl p,lenic Theology
,I,,, e,cc,,,,.I ind. baro do trcc.t md most
/ ,,rcti,,., Al ..u.sion
t,t,ri,d la. ,rr,upd conviction to the bcncfccn Mt
policy Of Industrial development aud Internal
lntelcommunicntion whose most spicuous cham
rluu through the last IIalf-Century was HENRY
CnAN-imhucd, moreover, with that spirit of for
h,ateuce toward our weaker ucichbors and toward
tine much wrourcI Abprie ines of this Continent
and Of Peace with All which will hallow the name
of Nht., THE TRIBUNE, while surrcuderine no
lot of It,, proper independence couporated earnestly
and ar,icntIy with the Wing party so long as its
vitality was rre.eryed When in ls5O-2 an at
tc,npt was male to intcrpoate slaye-huntinE into
its c-ecdwe s,ernlv resisted that imposition; when
at the close of the last Presidential canvass it was
seen that large portion Of the Wings preferred to
defeat their own party rather than allow its Anti
slavery wing to share its triumph, even under
conservative Chief on Pro-9lavery platform, we
knew and proclaimed that the wing party was no
more: subsequent events, incIudlnS the rise ana