Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-26

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| Il TIE TRIBUNE is in the middle of its ff.
teenth year; Vol XIV. of its weekly issue commeu-
| ced on the lst of September last. The American
| public need not now be made acquainted with a
character or claims TO consid Grafton. With bns
subordinate regard for prudence, policy and pop-
uiarity, 1t has aimed to stand for Righteousness
| ty, Fraud and Oppression. There is not a slave
| trader this Continent, tho he may never read
anything but his bills Of sale and notes-payabIe.
who does not know and hate the TRIBUNE ther Ia
not extensive fabricator of drugged and pejson-
/ Gus Liquors who does not consider il very dan
gerous and immoral paper, and wonder rhyits
publication Is tolerated in a commercial. cotton
| buying City like New-York- The -Veaczrk Meress-
Ty once forciby remarked that it had never known
hard. gripping, screwing avarieious employer who
was not hostile to the TRIBCSE nor one e,nineutJy
| generous and kindly who did tlikeitI PROMPT
and plain spoken in Its deDuncatons of iniouity
and abuses OF power, whilst claiming no exemp-
ton from human fallibility, it may have done
temporary injustice to individuals but it has new
er been unfaithful to Principle, nor deaf to the
cries of the wronged and suffering In its column.
the advocates of novel and unpopaiaT tleoFzs On
templating the melioration Of human woes asps-
claiiy those OF the yoiceiess aud dcwa-trodder
nave ever found audience a,ld hospitality ~hiis
u mas already resisted, and will peIsistentiy COM
Dat. every tempt topros:rihe ard de-rade AR
class because OF diyersiues OF Nativity, or Greed
In defiance Of caiumnies The most atrocious and
OF hoitilies the most deadly and untrue. III TRI-
BUSE has grown steadily in public appreciation
from the day of its origin. It's means OF servi1-
the public have been aug1ne nted in tropo-.io. -
ne or two
anus, rs organization low comprises numerous
body OF writers-each fitted ~ sIecizI accom-
iHent and experience fer TIE rarticE.7sr line =
discussion to which lis 81 i d.vots5 the saEfy
amount o' reading matter given more than 9usi-
ruPies that of its earliest issues; staff of valued
correspondents encirclss the globe transmitting
early and intelligent narrations of Whatever Is
most worthy OF attention; while Politics Leyisls-
uon Literature, Art History--in short whsteysr
aTects the social we'll being OF mankind Polemio
Iheoiogy alone exeepted--fnds here the frssss
and most searching discussion.
Attached by profound conviction to the benif-
cent policy of Industrial development and Intern
al 1ntercornm nmunication whose most conspicuous
champion through the last halfcentury was HEX
RY CLAY-lmbued, moreover. with the spirit offor-
oearanee towards our weaker neighbo and tow
ara the much wronged Aborigines of this CONT
name OF Wing, the TRIBUNE, while surrcnderine
no Jot OF lis proper independence co-cperated ca
hestly and ardently with the Whig party SO long
as us vitality WAS preserved. When in 1862 an
attempt was made to interpolate slave-huntiny in
TO Its creed, we stcrnly resisted that iuposition
When: at the close of the last Presidential can
Fass II was seen that large portion of the Whiys
preferred to defeat their own marty rather Az
allow Its Anti-Slavery wing TO share its triumph.
even under a conservative Chief Pro-Slayery
platform, We knew and proclaimed that the Whie
party was no more Subseo uent events incIuiinS
the rise and calumniati0n of the Know NotbinS
Conspiracy; and the speedy absorption therein q
Ihe wnole force Of Pro-slasery Whigism only cor
hrned our undoubtng antcipations With ne
sickiy lamentations. therefore for the ipeyitabIv
pygone, nut with hope, and JOY, and sympathy,
ahd words OF cheer, have we hailed the beginninc
4n9 rC watched the progress of that mighty REPUB-
IioAN movement which impelled by the perfdi-
o Gus violation of the Missouri Compact and stimu-
Iatsd by the astounding outrages whereof the
rights of the Free Settlers of Kansas have been the
'icums-by repeated and utter vitiation OF the;r
eIections by an armed mob collected by Conspiracy
ana huried suddenly upon them from the border
counties ot the neighboring Sieve State Is destin
gu 70 sweep away the landmarks of old nartv
.euas s and unite the true hearts and strong arms
~ ~ the free-souied in mighty effort 10 copfna
me sccurge and scandal of our country within .ba
imits OF the States which unwisely uphold il Te
ne success of this effort the energies of the Tpr
, ,6NE Use viii be sternly devoted; while the TENpFR.
aNSE REFORM, including the entire suppres.;on
u the trae In ntox icating beverages NIT
Is nltherto an earnest and unfinchins eha,nn;on
Commencing as daily folio sheet of moder.,.
ize, and with scardely shadow of patronage the
,RIsC is now issued in quarto form DafI ytbrss
Instinct editions), Semi Wsekfy and IY.rkfy On
meet "A by "a inches eight ample RACES of sirca,.
INNS each Its circulation has steadily go.
rom nai1o in1othing to the following aggregate:
Daliy Issues eve. and morn 29.5OO comic.
Semi Weekly ii rs
oeey -: 136. 500
SaIfoThia edition 6O00