Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-09

y I'M ~ \ u Is now IN the mluuIe oil IT. IA
| teen year Vol Nv. Of its weekly issue common
ccd on the lst Of September last. The America,
! public need not now be made acquainted with II
, character or claims to consideration. With but d
subordinate regard for prudence, policy popular
iy, it has aimed 10 stand for RELATIONSHIPS rl
| Truth, for Humanity, against fortified lniguity
Fraud and Oppression. There is not slave trade
on this Continent, though he never read ANYTHING
/ but his bills Of sale md notes-payable, who doe
not know and hate THE TRIBUNE; there is moi
/ an extensive fabricator of drugged and poisonous
Liquors who docs not consider it very dingcror.
| and immoral paper and wonder why its publication
! Is tolerated in commercial, cotton. buying Cit,
! like Newly rk Tho Newark Mercury once forc
bly, remarked that it had never known a hard, grip.
! M, 'crcwtns, ayarciods employer who WIS not
/ hostile To THE TRIBUNE, nor one eminently gen.
crous and kindly who did not like it. Prompt and
pain-spokcn in its demonstrations Of iniquity and
abuses OF power, while clHiLing no exemption from
human hllbty, it may have done temporary in
justice to individuals but it has never been un
full to Principle deaf to the cries Of the wrong
ct ana suffering. In its columns the advocates of
novel ant unpopular theories contemplating the
mclorhtlon OF human woes, especially those of the
voicclcss and down-troddcn, have ever found audi
encc and hospitality while it has ardenty resist
ct ana will persstcntly combat, every attempt to
prescribe and degrade any class because of diver
'itics Of Nativity, Creed, or Color.
In defiance Of calumnies the most atrociuus aud
OF hostilitics the most deadly and untirng. THE
IRIBl Ne has grown steadily in public apprcci-
alton from the day of its origin. It's means of ,crv-
ing tho public have been augmented In proportion.
Instead of single @ litor with two assist.
ants, Its organization now comprises a nufurruu.
body of writer's. each fitted by special accrnr'i.h-
mcnt and experience for the particular line Of dis
cus,ion to which his pen is devoted the 1aiiy
amount "i reading matter given more than ga itr'-
pies that Of it, earliest Issues "A stnf Of valued
spondcts oncircles the globe, transmitting
carly aud intelligent variations Of whatever ia most
worthy of attention while Politics, Lcgislation
Literature, Art, listory-in short whatever affect,
the social wcibcing Of mnnkinl |. Polemc Theology
alone excepted finds her! the irncst and most
searching discussion.
Attached by profound conviction to the benz fccnt
policy of Industrial development and Internal
lhtercomnunlcation whose most conspicuous cham
plon through the last llali-Ccntury was HENRY
CLAY -imbued, moreover, with that spirit of for
boaicncc toward our weaker neighbors and toward
the much wronged Abort gines of this Continent
and of Peace with All which Will halow tho name
ol wing, HE tribune, while surrendcrng no
Jot Of ITS proper independence cuoporatcd earnestly
and ardcntly with tho Wing party 50 long a. its
vitality was preserved. When in lsjO-2 an at.
tempt was made to intcrpoate slave hunting into
Its crecdwe sternly resisted that imposition; when
at the close of the last Presidential canvass il was
seen that large portion of the Wings preferred to
defeat their own party rathor than allow its Anti.
slavery wing to share its triumph even under a
conservative Chief Pro-Slavery platform, we
knew and proclaimed that the Wing party was no
more. subsequent events, including the rise and
elimination Of the Know Nothing conspiracy and
the 'rc"ir absorption therein o the whole iu'cc 1T
Pro-~lavc,y Nhigisiu, only confirmed our unduubt-
ing nnticipations. With sickly lamentations,
therefore, for the inevitably bygunc but with
hope, and sympathy, and words of cheer. have We
hailed the beginning and watched the progress of
that mighty REPUBLICAN movement which, i'm.
PEELED by the pctfdous violation of the Missouri
Compact, and stimulated by the astounding cut
RACES whereof the rights of the Free Settlers Of
Kansas ~ the tppp nt,J I'D