Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-18

WIN ~ NNl'N NblUlN f'llNNf W w NTuflltu ann
cntombcd-now, when the faint-hearicd or
cold-hcartcd who lately baskcd in the sun
shine of our premature hopes are hauling off
TO repair damages and talking of abandoning
the rugged arena of Politics for more quiet
aud tlowery helds-now, in this hour Of wear
mess and shadow, THE TRIBUNE renews its
vows OF eternal hostility to every form of ty-
ranny over the bodies or souls of men-,o the
shameful assumption that the benighted and
feeble, whether in soul or body, are TO be re-
gardCd and treated as the convenience or the
prey Of their wiser or stronger brcthren-to the
domination Of despots and oligarchs, whether
of empires or plantations-to the enslayers of
cities and kingdoms in Europe or the breeders
of children for the auction-block and the cot
ton-tcld in Virginia or Alabama.
The doctrine that no human being was ever
created for the benefit or advantage of an
othcr-tbat all service between man and man
should be free and rcciprocal-that the labor
er should not toll and sweat to pamper others
pride or minister to others luxury, but for the
snstcnance and comfort of those near and dear
to him-is destined to certain triumph. IL
MUST prevail, for God rcigns, and Earth was
not created to be a theatre of injustice, OPP
preston and misery forever. 1t MUST tri-
umph for all true prophecy afirms and the
vindiCation Of the Divine benignity impera-
lively requires it. 1t MUST triumph for De-
mocratic America cannot always remain the
scott Of aristocrats and the shame Of REFORM
ers and liberals throughout the Old World.
1t MUST triumph for Mans history is not a
chaos or a riddle, but everywhere instinct
with meaning and no heroic effort ever failed
of its eflect-no drop of martyr blood was
ever shed in vain.
But even if we Republicans were disposed
to fold our arms in slumber, our adversaries
would not permit it. They are busy to-day in
lcngthening their cords and strengthening
I thpir Stqkps with n vigilance and nntiyitV
which reveals a consciousness on their part
that their dominion must be made sure forth
with or their scepter will have forever de-
parted. To-day, myrmidoms of the Slave
Power threaten and harass Northern Mexico,
are cncamped in the heart of Central Ameri-
ca, and waging a war of determination on the
distracted inhabitants of its petty Republics,
while it by turns leers and scowls at Cuba,
while its most ruthless bands are precipitated
on devoted Kansas, under the protection and
smiles of the Federal Administration. Even
IS W. write, the telegraph informs us that
twenty Free-State men, guilty of attempting
to defend their homes against the rapine and
violence of Buford's and Titus's blood-thirsty
bandits, have been convicted by L~ecompte's
Court of manslaughter! and sentenced to five
years Imprisonment at hard labor as felons.
This is but a fair specimen of what has long
passed for 'iustice" in Kansas Justice
which takes the criminals into pay and aids
them in hunting down, plundering and "wi-
ping out" the innocent, whom it consigns TO
the State prison If they are ever goaded into
the madness of resisting their oppressors.
Such crimes and wrongs as unhappy Kansas
has for twelve months endured, even Hungary
or Poland has never known and the Power
at whose instigation these villainies were and
are peTpetrated sits enthroned in the White
House, and has just achieved another four
years. ascendancy in the Federal Govern
mani Who IN xiaxy nf thaoa fonta 10, ,a,,
that Republicans may now pile their arms,
even for an hour?
The TRIBUNE will be, as it has been, a
Political journal-avowedly, though not ex-
c~lusively so. 1t recognizes the truth that
Freedom and Slavery are here grappled in
deadly conflict, and hat in the result one of
them must lose all control over the Federal
Government. But, while it gives prominence
and emphasis to the discussion and elucida-
ton of the great Issue of the day, it sinks
none of the characteristics of a Business and
Family Newspaper. The proceedings of
Congress, like those in Kansas, will be
watched and reported by an able and fearless
corps of Correspondents, while from London,
Paris, Constantinople, Havana, San Francis
co, Albany and other centers of interest, our
special advices will be, as they have been,
fresh and reliable. A member of our Edito-
rial corps-Bayard Taylor-is now in North
ern Europe, and will spend the Winter in
Sweden, Lapland, Russia, thence making his
way next season across Siberia and Tartary
to the mouth of the Amour, and thence home
ward by the Pacific and California, unless
some change of route shall promise greater
interest and profit to our readers, for whom
atone he will write regularly throughout his
adventurous journey, which is likely to re-
quiTe two years for its completion. Our re-
ports of the most interesting Lectures, Public
Meetings, &C., will be full and reliable, and
] mr. EOrpirp and nonpstic NpNyS m do mn with
a careful regard to the condensation into our
ample columns of the greatest amount of in
telligence that is consistent with the use of
type of generous size. In short, If we fail to
make The TRIBUNE worth its cost, it shall
not be for want of expenditure or effort.
If it be deemed desirable by Republicans
that The TRIBUNE should be circulated in
their several localities, we urge them to see
that Clubs be made up and forwarded in due
season. The Postmasters are semi-officially
admonished not to aid our circulation, but TO
urge instead that of journals deemed "sound'
and "National' by the compatriots of Atchi-
son and Stringfeliow. We ask live Republi-
cans everywhere to take care that these ef-
forts be not ~elfectual to quench the light of
Freedom in the murky mists Of Slavery.
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