Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-03-28
BURLINGTON FREE PRESS FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH IS i

teen year Vol Nv. Of its weekly issue common
ced on the LIST of September last. The American
public need not now be made acquainted with its
or claims to consideration. With but "a
regard for prudence, policy popular
ity, it has aimed TO stand for Righteousness, for
truth, Tor Humanity, against fortified lniquity
Fraud and Oppression. There is not a slave trader
on tins c. tiucnt, though he never read anything
but his bill ' nlc md notos-payablc, who docs
not know and .'r THE TRIBUNE there is not
an extensive Eh Gator Of drugged and poisonous
Liquors who does not consider it q very dangerous
and immoral paper, and wonder why its publication
is tolerated in II commercial, cotton-buying City
like New-lork. The Newark Mercury once torci-
bly, remarked that it had never known hard, grip
ing, scrcwing, avaricous employer who was not
hostile to THE TRIBUNE, nor ono cmncntly gen
crous and kindly who did not like it. Prompt and
plain-'poken in its dcnunciations Of iniquity and
abuses Of power, while claiming no exemption from
human hlibilty, it may have done temporary in
justice to individuals, but it has never been uniath-
full to Principle, deaf to the cries OF the wrong
ed and suffering. In its columns the advocates Of
novel and unpopular theories contemplating the
moderation of human woes, especially those OF the
voicclcss and down-troddcn, have ever found audi
encc and hospitality while it has ardcntIy resist
ed and will rcrsistcnty combat, every attempt to
prescribe and degrade any class because OF diver
sitcs of Nativity, Creed, or Color.
In defiance of calumniCs the most atrocious, and
of hustiltics the most deadly and untiring, iii
TRIBUNE has grown steadily in pubic apprecl-
Hllun from inc Jay OF It's origin It's hV"o "
ing the public have been augmented IN proportion
Instead of single editor with one or two assist
ants, its organization now comprises numerous
body of writer's, each fitted by special accomplish
men and experience for the particular line oil as
cussion to which his pen is devoted the daily
amount of reading matter given more than quadru-
pies that of its earliest issues scan oil valued
correspondents cncrclcs the globe, transmitting
early and intelligent variations of whatever Is most
worthy of attention +; while Politics, Legislation,
ata. ftNIu ~ IF l.
the social wellbeng of mankind, Polemic Theology
alone eXceptcd-fnds here the ircest aud most
searching discussion
Attached by profound conviction to tho benefcent
policy of Industrial development and Internal
| IntcrcOmmunicatiUn whose most conspicuous cham.
pon through the last llalf-CGntury was HENRY
CLAl-imbucd, moreover, with that spirit of for.
bearonce toward our weaker ncighbors and toward
| the much wrongod Aborigincs Of this Continent
and Of Peace with All which will hallow the name
! Of Wing, THE TRIBUNE, while surrcndoring no
jot of its proper independence cooporatcd earnestly
| and ardently with tho Wing party so long as it,
| vitality was preserved. When in lsj0-2 an at
tempt was made to interpolate slayc-hunting int
its crecdwc stcrnly resisted that imposition when
the close of the last Presidential canvass it was
seen that large portion of the Wings preferred tt
defeat their own party rather than allow Its ANU
| Slavery wing to share it, triumph, even under Q
! conservative Chief on Iro-Slavcry platform, We
knew and proclaimed that the Wing party was ~
more Subsequent events, including the rise an,
| elimination of the kuuw-NotLiug conspiracy, anl
the speedy absorption therein OF the whole force
| PrO-Slavory Nhlgism, only confined our undoubt
| ing anticpatuns. With no sickiy lamentations
therefore, for tho inevitably bysuncs but witt
| hope, and sympathy, and words Vi cheer, have VT
| hailed the beginning and watched the progress .
| that mighty KEP UBLlCAN movement which, i'm
| PEELED by the pcrtdious violation of the Missouri
| Compact, and stimulated by the astounding out
| RACES whereof the rights Of the Free Settlers o
| Kansas have been the ViCt.mS--bY the rCucatcu