Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1855-12-21
BEDFORD INQUIRER AND CHRONICLE.
rT,HE New york Tribune, 1865.

menced on tho lst OF september laSt. Inc hhie
rican public need not now be made acqualnt
ed with its character or claims to consluera
tion. With but a subordinate regard for pril
/ dence. policy or popularity, it has aimed le
stand for Righteousness, for TRUTH Tor Hu
manity, against fortified Iniquity, Fraud and
Oppression. There is not trader on this
I Continent, though he may never read anything
hut his bills of sale and notes-payable, who
does not know aud hate The TRIBUNE; there Il
not an extensive fabricator of drugged and poi
sonous Liquors who does not consider il very
dangerous and immoral paper, and wonder why
its publication is tolerated in commercial, cot
| ton-buying City like New York. The Nspdrh
Mercagy once forciby remarked that 1t had ne
yer known hard, gripping, screwing, ayari-
cious employer who was not hostile to The
TRIBUNE nor one eminently generous and kind
ly who did not like it. Promp and plaln-spo-
ken in its denunciations OF iniquity and abu-
ses OF power, while claiming no exceptionfr from
human falibilty, it may have done temporary
! injustice to individuals, but it has never been
unfaithful to Principle, nor deaf to the cries OF
the wronged aad suffering. In its columns the
advocates cf novel and unpopular theories
contemplating the melioration of human woes,
| especially those Of the yoiceless and down
troddeu. have ever found audience and hospi-
tality; while it has ardently resisted, and VIII
persistently CON bat every attempt to prescribe
and degrade any class because Of dverslties
OF Nativity Greed or Coler.
! In defiance of calumnies the most atroeious,
and of hostiIities the most deadly and untiring,
| The TRIBUNE has grown steadily in public APP
| probation from the day of its origin. It.
means of serving the public have been augs
mented in proportion. Instead of single
editor with one or two assistants, its organza-
/ tion now comprises numerous body of wrl-
ters, each fitted by special accomplishment
and experience for the particular line of dis
eussion to which his pen is devoted; the daily
amount of reading matter given more than
quadruples that of its earliett issues; staff of
valued correspondents eneircles the globe,
transmitting early and intelligent narrations of
whatever is most worthy of attention; while
Politics, Legislation, Literature, Art, History
in short whatever affects the social we'll be-
ing of mankind, Polemic Theology alone ex-
cepted-finds here the freeSt and most search
ing discussion.
Attached by profound conviction to the be-
neficent policy of Industrial development and
Internal Intercommunication, whose most con-
spicuous champion through the last Half Cen
tnry was HENRY CLAY imbued, moreover,
with that spirit of forbeaIance toward our
weaker neighbors, and toward the much wrong
ed AborigineS OF this Continent, and of Peace
!"
TTE TRIBUNE, while surrendering no lot of its
independence, eooperated earnestly and ar
IDENTIFY with the Wing party SO long as its vi
tahty was preserved. When, in 1862, an
attempt was made to interpolate slave-hunting
into its creed, We sterny resisted that impo-
Sition; when, at the close of the last Presiden-
tial canvass, it was seen that large portion of
the Wings preferred TO defeat their own party
rather than allow its Auti-Slavery wing to
share its triumph, even under a conservative
Chief on Pro Slavery platform, we knew and
proclaimed that the Nhig party was no more.
Subsequent events, including the rise and cul-
inination of the Known othing conspiracy,
and the speedy absorption therein of the whole
force of Pro-Slavery Whigism, only confirm
ed our uudoubting anticipetions. With no
sickly lamentations, therefore, for the inevita-
bly, bygone, but with hope, and joy, and SYM
pathy and words of cheer, have we hailed the
beginning and watched the progress of that
mighty REPUBLICAN movement which, impell-
ed by the perhdious violation of the Missouri
Compact, and stimulated by the astounding
outrages whereof the rights of the Free Set
tiers of Kansas have been the victims-by the
repeated and utter yitiation of their elections
by an armed mob collected by conspiracy and
hurled suddedly upon them from the border
counties Of the neighboring Slave State. is
destined to sweep away the landmarks of old
party feuds, and unite the true hearts and
strong arms of the free-souled in one mighty
effort to cOnfine the scourge and scandal of
our country within the limits of the States
which unwiSely uphold it. To the success of
this effort the energies of THE TRIBUNE will he
sternly devoted; while the TEMPERANCE Re-
FORM, including the entire suppression of the
Traffic in Intoxicating Beverages, will find in
1t, as hitherto, an earnest and unfinching
champion.
Commencing as daily folio sheet OF mode.
rate size, and with scarcely shadow of pat
ronage, THE TKIBUNE is now issued in uuarto
form Daily (threc distinct editions,) Semi
Weehlg and Weekly, on sheet A by "a inch
es, eight ample pages of SIX columns each.--
Its circulation has steadily grown from nothing
TO the following aggregates:
Daily issues (evening and morning) 90, 500 copies
Semi eekly, 1875 {.
Weekly, l37,75O 60
California edition, 6,00O sI
Total, 1877 43h
W 9 believe no other newspaper in the world
has subscription list over half so large as
this and no periodical Of any sort can rival it.
And while its extreme cheapness, rendering an
increase of paying readers only as indirect pe-
cuniary advantage to US. has doubtless largely
swelled its subscription list, it would be absur-
dity not to perceive in this unprecedented pat
ronage some evidence of public approval and
esteem.