Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-06-27

'EnlE NETWORK TRIBUNE, 1s5j-G.-THE
klBuN Is now in the middle of its if
teen year Vol XIV. of its weekly issue common.
ccd on the lstpf september last. The American
pubIlc need not now be made acquainted with its
character or claims to considerations. With hut A
subordinate regard for prudence, policy or POPULAR
~, 1t has aimed to stand for Righteousness. for
truth, for Humanity, against fortified Inionity,
FRAUD and Oppression. There Is not a slave trader
on this Continent, though he never read ANYTHING
nut his bills Of sale md notcs-paylLlc, who docs
not Know and hate THE TRIBUNE; there is not
IN extensive iIbric1iur Of druggcl and poisonous
Liquors who does not consider it % very dangerous
ana immoral paper, and wonder why its publication
Is tolerated in Il commercial, cotton-huvinr CITY
IKE Ncw-(ork. The Newark Mercury once lYrci-
bly, rcinar ed that it had never known n hard. srip-
in;, s%rrcwine, avHr.ciols employer who wns mot
hostile to TUE TRIBUNE, nor one cmincuily rou-
crouf and kindly who did not like IT,. PrYnpt and
p.oin-spoken in its denuuciation. Of in.puity and
abuses of power, while clii Ling no ex,mrtion from
human hilibiltv, it may have done temporary in
Justice 10 individuals, but it has never been uuErith-
luI to Principle, nor deaf to the cries Of the wrout.
cd and suffering. In its columns the advocate. Of
novel and unpopular theories contemplating the
moderation of human woes, especially those Of the
voicclcs. and down .%troddcn, have ever found audi
euce and hospitality while it has arlcntly resist
ca ana VIII pcrsi,tcntly combat, every attempt to
prescribe and degrade any class because of diver.
sites OF Nativity, Greed, or Color.
In defiance of calumuics the most atrocious. and
oi hostilitics the most deadly and untirins, THE
ltlbl NJ has grown steadily in public appreci-
atI"h from tue iay OF It's origin. Its means Of scry-
ing the public have been augmented in proportion.
Instead OF a single ciit0r with one or two assist
ants, its organization now comprises a numerous
body of writer's, each fitted by special nccmplish-
ment and experience for the particular line oi Dis.
cusSion to which his pen is devoted tho daily
amount Of reading matter given more than auadrl-
pies that Of its earliest issues a staT of valued
correspondents cncirclcs the globe, %transmittiu,
carly and intelligent variations Of whatever is most
worthy Of attention while Politics, Legislation,
Literature, Art. Iistory-in short whatever affects
the social w%cllbcing of %mnnFinl, polcmic Theology
alone excepted finds hero the irccst and most
searching discussion.
Attached by profound conviction to the benefccnt
policy Of Industrial development and Internal
ntercommunication whose most conspicuous cham.
pion through the last lIalf-Ccntury was HENRY
CLAl-imbucd, moreover, with that spirit of for
bentence tUwart our weaker neighbors and toward
the much wronged AborigiEes of this Continent
and Of Peace with All which will hallow the name
Of Whis, THE TRIBUNE, while surrcndering no
jot of its proper independence cooporated earnestly
and ardcntly with the Wing party so long as its
vitality was prc-erved. When in 1902 an at
tempt was made to interpolate slavc-hunting into
its creed we sternly resisted that imposition; when,
Mt the close Of the last Presidential canvass, it was
seen that a large portion of The Wings preferred to
defeat their own party rather than allow its Anti
slavery wing to share its triumph, even under a
conservative Chief on a Pro-Slavcry 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 spccdy absorption therein Of the whole force OF
Pro-olavcry NhIgism, only confirmed our unduubt-
ing anticipations. With no sickly lamentations,
therefore, for the inevitably bygone 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 p%crfdious violation of the Missouri
Compact, and stimulated by the astounding out
rage whereof the rights of the Free Settlers of