Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-01-08
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THE TRIBUNE FOR 1851.

The Election ia past and its results proves that the
work deyoved the Republican party s not yet com
piccd In all the Eastern and Northern portions OF the
conntrvn New England. New York Ohio and the North
We>t-the Republican banner floats in triumph while in
Southern Jersey Pennsylvania. Indiana and llinoisn
short wherever few newspapers taken. and where
common schools and too feeble 10 have edu
Gated the present generation of vnerSte black flag OF
slavery obstructs the sunshine stranger TO America
might distinguish those portions of country most
blessed with Education Intelligence. Thrift and virtue
by scanning the returns of the Presidential contest 1856
We have failed Of present not because the Peo
pie against but because that large portion who did
not hear read the argument and do not know what
were the real questions at Ssne Went almost s"u against
reversing the verdict which tie great majority OF the
educated and intelligent endcaVored to pronounce
These facts indicate the path of pressing duty. With
no unmanlv repning4 what is ireN Ocahc-with no
abatement of heart hope because the triumph Of Lbcr
" in her ordeal Is not at the Long Island and
White Plains of her struggle-with shadow OF regret
that the responsibility of governing confded
champions before the People fully ready to sustain
thelnwe begin aresh the work of difisiny that vital
truth which, in regard 10 the concerns Of this world as
well of the next, makes Free indeed. Now. in the
Slave Powers heyday Of victory when ifs ministers and
srrrtors gathering and plotting to make the most Of
their triumph and crush out the spirit which they vain
" believe to lie crucied ard entOmbed-now when the
fintlearted or cod-hearted who lately ba>ked in the
RInshne of premature hopes hauling off tn repair
damages and talking OF abandoning the rugged arena oi
Politics for more quie and fowery fedS-now, in this
hour of WEAKNESS and shadow, TnE TRRrNE it.
Of eternal hostility to every form Of tyranny
the bodies souls of mento the shameful assumption
that the benghted and feeble whether in soul or body
be regarded and treated the convenience the
prey of their wiser stronger brehrento the dnmina
ton OF despot and ogarchs whether of empires plan
tationsto the enslavers Of cities and kingdoms in Europe
the breeders Of children for the auconblnck and the
cotton-feld in Virginia or Alabama.
The doctrine that no human being created for
the benefit advantage of anOhCrthat all service be-
tween and man should be free and rccprocal-that
the aborer should not toll and sweat to pamper others
pride minister 10 others luxury but for the
and comfort of those and dear to hmis destined to
certain riunph. 1t must prevail, for God rcgns, and
Earth not created to be theatre of injustice. oppres
sion and misery for II must triumph; for all true
prophecy arms and the vindicaton OF the Divine bcnig
nifty imperatively requires it. 1t triumph for De
nocratc America cannot always remain the co Of ars
tocrats and the shame of refOrmers and liberals Though
out the Old World. It triumph for Mans history
is chaos a riddle hut everywhere instinct with
meaning and no heroic effort ever failed of its efcctno
drop of martyr blood was ever shed in vain
But even If we Republicans disposed to fold our
arms in sumber adversarieS wOud not permit it, They
busy to-day in engthening their cords and strength
enng their stakes with vigilance and activity which
veas consciousness on their part that their dominion
must be made forthwith their scepre will have
forever departed To-day, myrmidoms of the Slave Pow
threaten and harass Northern Mexico encamped
in the heart of Central America and wagng Of
termination the distracted inhabitants of its petty Re-
nubcs while by turns leer and scowls at Cuba while
its most ruthless bands preciptated devoted Kan
sas under the protection and smiles of the Federal Ad
rinstration Even as we write the telegraph informs
that twenty FreeSate guilty of attempting to
defend their homes against the rpne and violence of Bu
fords and Titus thirsty bandits, have been conyc
ted by LeComptes Court Of manSanghte and sentenced
FIVE years Imprisonment at hard labor elunS. This
Is but fair specimen of what has long passed for jus
kansaSa justice which takes the criminals
pay and aids them in hunting down, plunderng and
- wping out the innocent, whom it consigns to the
State prison if they g0aded into the madness Of
resisting their oppressors. Such crimes and wrongs
unhappy Kansas has for twelve months endured.
Hungary Poland has never known and the Power at
whose nstgaton these vllanies and perpetra
ted sits enthroned in the White House, and has just
achieved another four years acendancy in the Federal
Government. Who, in view of these facts say that
Republicans may pile their arms, for hour
THE TRIBUNE will be, as it has been Political Jour
nal-avowedy though not exclusively so. 1t recognizes
the truth that Freedom and Slavery here gpped in
deadly conflict and that in the result of them must
lose all control the Federal Government But while
il gives prominence and emphasis the discussion and
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not efectua to quench the light of Freedom in the
Ky mists of Slavery.
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