Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-01-18

fiitceuth yeas; Vol. XIV. o. its weekly issue COM
mcnced ontbe LIST Of September last. The Ame-
rican public need not now be made acqnaint-
ed with its character or claims to considera-
ton. With lut . subordinate regard for 9rii :
denee, policy or popularity, it las aimed 10
stand ipr righteousness, Tor Truth, Tor Hur
nanity, against fortified lniqNity, Fraud and
Oppression There is not q slaye-trader on this
Continent, though he may never read any thing
but his bills OF sale aud notes payable, who
does not know and hate The TRILrAEi there is
not an extensive fabricator Of drugged andpoi-
sonous Liquors whc does not consider II avery
dangerous and immoral paper, and wonder why
its publications. tolerated ina commercial. cot
| ton-buying City like New-York. The Necdfk
/ Mercury once foreibly remarked that it had ne
yer known hard, gripping, serewing, avarI-
| cioHs employer who was not hostile to Int
TRIBrxE, nor one eminently generous and kind
| Iy who did not like il. ProInp and plaln-spo-
I ken in its denuuciations OF iniquity and a5u-
/ ses OF power while claiming no exceptionfrom
/ lumaf fatifbility, il may have done temporary
I Injustice To Individuals, but II has never been
unfaifhiul TO Principle, nor deafto the cries OF
| tie wrohged AID suffering. In itscolumns the
| advocates OF novel and unpopular theories
| contemplating the melioration of human wees,
/ especially those Of the yoiceless and down.
| tr6ddeu. have ever found audience and hospl-
! tality; whie it has ardently resisted, and viii
/ persistently every attempt TO prescribe
/ and degrade any class because Of diverslties
! Of Nativity Creed or Coler.
/ In defiance of calumnies the most atrocious,
and of hostilities the most deadly and untiring,
! THE TRIBUNE has grown steadily in public ap-
! probation from the day OF its origin IL
means Of serving the public have been angs
mented in proportion. Instead of siDgie
| editor with one ortso assistants, its organiza-
! tiun NOW comprises a numerous body of VII
tiers, each fitted by special Accomplishment
and experience for the particular line OF dis
/ cussioh 10 which his pen is devoted; the daliy
amount Of reading matter given more than
qnadruples that Of It's earIett issues; staii Of
| valued correspondents encircles the globe,
| transmitting early and intelligent variations Of
whatever is most worthy Of attention; while
{ Politics. Legislation. Literature, Art, History
in short whatever affects the social wcil-bf>
ing OF mankind, Polemic Theology alone a
! cepted-fnds here the freest and most Se4reh-
ing discussion.
Attached by profound conyictiont I, inc oe,
neiiceut policy vi Industrial defeln''het. "''' ~
! Internal allnterc0mmunication, wlSse hlost coii-
spicuous champion through the last nan Oeil-
furv was HFNRY Clay inoueu, fhofeoNef,
with that spirit Of Iorhedanee toward our
weaker npiphbors, audfo6ard the much wrong
IN Abnriein,s Of this continent, and OF Peace
,yith All which viii talow the name of " hIg,
,rrs rptnrxr whbe surrendering no jot OF its
! ;naenendepee. eo0perated earnestly and ar
denly With tls Wing part, 20 long as It's VI
tnl,ty was preserved. When, in $780,, an
atten,,t v,.s made to interpolate slave-huntiRe
into IFS efeed, we sternly resisted that Iinpo-
sition. Mllen at the close of the last Presiden-
t;ai rrnvass. il was seen that large portion OF
tEe " bigs preferred to defeat their own party
rather than allow it's nti-Slayery wing 70
share its triumph, eren under = conservative
Chief ON a Pro Slavery platform, we knew and
proclaimed that the Nhig party was no more.
Subsequent events, including the rise ana cni'
miuation of the Know Nothing conspiracy
and the speedy absorption therein Of the whole
force of Pros Slavery WhgiSn, only confirm
cd our undoubting antleipeuons. TN ne
sicklv lamentations, therefore, for the inevita'
bIy bvcone. .hut with hope, and JOY, and SYM
pathv. and words OF cheer. haze we hailed thu
berinning and watched the progress OF thai
MIGHTY REPUBLICAN, movement which. lmpeli
ed bv the perhdiGus violation OF the Mssour
Caoirlcf and stimulated by the astounding
/ outraees whereof the rights of the Free Set
| tiers OF Kansas have been the yictinis-by tn,
repeated and utter yitiation of their elections
| bv M armed mob collected by conspiracy ans
/ hurled suddedly upon them from the borde
/ counties Of the neighboring Slave State, il
& GesttlcH 70 SANNR AWAY VI ofN
party feuds, and unite the true hears ant
strong arms Of the free-souled in one might,
effort to confine the Scourge and scandal o
our country within the limits of the State
which unwisely uphold it. To the success o
this effort the energies OF TnE TRIBusE will b.
| sternly devoted; while the TEMpERASCE Re
/ roR Il, including the entire suppression Of tn
I Traffic in Intoxicating Beverages, viii find il
4 it, us hitherto, an earnest and unt1lnchn
/ champion.
! Commencing as a daily folio sheet Of mode
rate size, and with scarcely shadow of pat
ronagc. The TEIBUNE is now issued in quart
/ form Daily {three distinct editioms,) Semi
IFeekig and Weekly, on a sheet II by "a inch
es eight ample pages of six columns EACH
It's circulation has steadily grown from nothin
! to the following aggregates:
I Daily issues (evening and murning) e, $50 copit
| Semi Weekly, I,1I5 !"
| Weekly, l3T,750 q
California edition, 5000
Totel. ls7 ,425
We believe no other newspaper in the worl
has subscription list over half SO large d
this aud no periodical of any sort can rival i
, And fhilc its extrerie chcapncss, rendering a
increase of paving readers only as Indirect y,
cunary advantage To us, has doubtless iargel
swellcd its subscription list. it would be alisu
dity not to perceive in this unprecedented pa
ronage some evidence Of public approval an
esteem.