Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-12-06

HUE NEW-1Okk TRIBUNE, l555-6.-THE TkI.
i BUNE is nov in the middle Of It's fifteen N year:
Vol. AF. OF is weekly issue COMMENCED the lst Of
september last. The American public need not now
be made acquainted with ts character or claims to
consideration. With but subordinate egard for pru-
dence, policy popularity, il has aimed 10 stand for
Righteousness for Truth for Humanity against r6ed
.niquty, Fraud and Oppression. There is not slave
trader on this Continent, though be may never read
anything but his bills OF sale and notes-payable who
does not know and hate TlIE TRIBUNE;there is not an
extensive iabrcaor of drugged and poisonous Liquors
who does not consider il very dangerous and immoral
paper and wonder why its publication is tolerated in
commercial, cotIOnbuying CITY like NeV-York. The
Newark Mercury once iorciby remarked that it had
never known hard, gripping, screwing avaficions
ployer who not hostile 10 The Tribune, nor one
eminently generous and kindly who did not like it,
Prompt and plain spoken in its denuneiaons ofniquy
and abuses OF power while claiming exemption from
human fability it may have done temporary injustice
to individuals but it has been unaithfu TO Prn
cpe, nor deaf to the cries Of the Wronged and suffer
ing. In its column the advocates Of novel and unpop.
ular theories contemplating the meoration Of human
woes especially those Of the voceless and down rod.
den, have found audience and hospitality; while
it has lrdenty resisted and will persstently combat
every attempt to prescribe and degrade any class be.
cause OF diverstes of Nativity, Creed or Color.
In defiance Of calumnes the most atrocious, and Of
hostiltes the most deadly aud untrng. The Tribune
mas grown sLeauly IN puOlc appreciation from the daY
OF its origin. Its means OF serving the pubic have
! been augmented in proportion. Instead Of single
editor with one two assistants its organization now
comprises numerous body of WRITER'S each fitted by
special accomplishment aud experience for the partc.
uar line of discussion to which his pen is devoted the
daily amount of reading matter given than qua.
druples that OF its earliest issues staff Of valued cor.
respondents encrces the globe transmitting early and
intelligent narrations OF whatever is most worthy ofat
tention, while Politics, Legislation Literature Art
istoryin short whatever affects the social well be-
ing OF mankind, POemic Theology alone excepted
finds here the reesL and most searching discussion
Attached by profound conviction to the benefcent
policy OF Industrial development and Internal Inter.
communication whose must conspicuous ch mpion
through the last HalfCenury was Henry vay-im.
bued moreover with that spirit Of forbearance toward
our weaker neighbors and toward the much wronCed
Aborgines of this Continent and Of Peace with All
which will hallow the name of Wing, The Tribune, while
surrenderng o Of its proper independence cooper
ated earnestly and ardently with the Whig party so
long as its vitality preserved. When in 1902 an
attempt was made to nerpolate save.hunng into its
creed sterny resisted that imposition; wher the
close of the last Presidential canvas it was seen that
large portion Of the Wings preferred to defeat their
own party rather than allow its AntSlavery wing to
share its triumph, under a conservative Chief on
PrO.Savery platform, we knew and proclaimed that
the Wing party was no more. Subsequent events, in.
cuding the rise and elimination of the Know Nothing
conspiracy, and the speedy absorption therein of the
whole force of ProSlavery Whigsm, only confirmed
our undonbt ng anticpatons. With no sickly lamen.
tations therefore for fhe inevitably bygone but with
hope and joy and sympathy, and words of cheer have
we hailed the beginning and watched the progress Of
that mighty Republican movement which impelled by
the peihdous violation Of the Missouri Compact and
stimulated by the astounding outrages whereof the
rights Of the Free Settlers of Kanzas have been the vic.
tmsby the repeated and utter vitiaton of their elec
tions by an armed mob collected by conspiracy and
hure suddenly upon them from the border counties Of
the neghbOriRg Slave State is destined TO sweep away
the landmarks OF old party feuos, and unite the true
hearts and strong of the freesoued in one mighty
effort to conne the scourge and scandal ofour country
within the limits of the States which unwisey uphold it.
To the of this effort the energes Of TIE Tribune
will be sternly devoted; while the Temperance Reform
including the entire suppression Of the Traffic in IntoX
cAtug Beverages, will find mi hitherto, earnest
and unanchng champion.
Commencing daily folio sheet Of moderate
size and with scarcely shadow Of patronage, The Tri-
bune inow issued in quarto from Daily (three distinct
editions Semi Weekly and Weekly, on a sheet A by
"a inches. eight ample pages Of six columns each. Its
circulation has steadily grown from nothing to the
following aggregates:
Daily issues (eYeniug and morning) %, 500 copies
Semi Weekly. IA,
Weekly 136, 500
California edition. 5000