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tJHE NETWORK TRIBUNE, Is65.e.-THE
d TRIBUNE is now in tho middle of its IF
teen year Vol Nv Of its weekly issue commcn-
ccd On the lst Of September last. The American
public need not now be made acquainted with its
character or claims to consideration. With but a
subordinate regard for prudence, policy popular
ity it has aimed to stand for Righteousness for
truth, Tor Humanity, against fortified luiquity,
FRAUD and Opprcssiun There is not a slave trader
on this Continent, though he never read anything
but his bills of sale md notcs-Inyablc, who does
not know and hate THE TRIBUNE; there is not
an extensive iabricator Of drugged and poisonous
Liquors who does not consider it u very dangerous
and immoral paper, and wonder why its publication
Is tolerated in "A commercial, cotton-buyiug City
like New y ork. The Newark Mercury once iorci-
bly, remarked that it had never known hard, grip
ing, scrcwins. avarcious employer who was not
hostile to THE TRIBUNE, nor one eminently gem
crous and kindly who did not like it. Prompt and
pain-spokcn in its dcnuncatous Of iniquity and
abuses of power, while claiming no exemption from
human falibilty, it may have done temporary in
justice to individuals, but it has never been unidth
full to Principle, deaf to the cries Of the wrong
cd and suffering. In its columns the advocates Of
novel and unpopular theories contemplating the
moderation OF human woes, especially those of the
Voccles' and dOwn.troddcn have ever found audi
encc and hospitality while it has ardcntly resist
ed and will rcrsistently combat, every attempt to
prescribe and degrade any class because of diver.
sites OF Nativity, Creed, or Color.
In defiance of calumnies the most atrocious, and
Of hostilitics the most deadly and untirng, THE
TRlBU NE has grown steadily in public apprcci-
alton from the day Of its origin. IT. means of scrv-
ing the public have been augmented In proportion.
Instead of single Editor with one or two assist
ants, its organization comprises a numerous
body of writers, each fitted by special accomplish
men and experience for the particular line of dis
cusson to which his pen is devoted the daily
amount of reading matter given moro than quadru-
pies that of its earliest issues stal of valued
correspondents cncrccs the globe, transmitting
early and intelligent variations of whatever is most
worthy of attention while Politics. Legislation,
Literature, Art. llistory-in short whatever affects
the social wcllbcng of mankind, Polcmic Theology
alone excepted finds hero the irecst and most
searching discussion.
Attached by profound conviction to the bcne fccnt
policy of Industrial development and Internal
lntercommunicaton whose most conspicuous cham
pon through the last lIalf-Ccntury was HENRY
CLA1-imbucd, moreover, with that spirit of for
bcarence toward weaker neighbors and toward
the much wrongcd Aborigues of this Continent
and @! Peace with All which will hallOw the name
of Wing, TIE TRIBUNE, while surrcndcrng no
o of its proper independence cooporatcd earnestly
and ardcntly with tho Wing party so long as its
vitality was preserved. When in 1902 an at
tempt made to intcrpoate save-hunting into
its crecd,wc stcrnly resisted that imposition; when,
at the close of the last Presidential canvass, it
seen that 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 Pro->lavcry 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 speedy absorption therein of the whole force OF
Pro-Slavery Nhlgism, only confirmed our undoubt-
ing anticipations With no sickly lamentations,
therefore, for the inevitably bygonc, but with
hope, and sympathy, and words of cheer, have we
hailed the beginning and watched the progress OF
that mighty kEPU BLlCAN movement which, i'm
PEELED by the peridious violation Of the Missouri
I COMPACT. and stimulated bV the n astounding =