Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-01-08

gathering and plotting To make thc moet VI
Iheir triumph and "crush out" the spirit
which tbcy yainly believe TO he crucifed and
entombed-now, when the faint-hearted or
cold-hoarted who lately basked in the sun
shine of our premature hopes are hauling oil
10 repair damages and talking OF abandoning
the rugged arena OF Politics for moro quiet
aud nowery felds-now, IN this hour OF wear
mess and shadow, TnE TRIBUNE renews its
vows of eternal hostility to every form OF ty-
ranny over the bodies Of souls of men-to the
shameful assumption that the benighted and
feeble, whether IN soul or body, are TO be re-
garded 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 enslavers OF
cities and kingdoms in Europe or the breeders
of children for the auction-block and the cot
ton-held in Virginia or Alabama.
The doctrine that no human being was ever
created for the benefit or advantage OF an
othcr-that all service between man and man
should be free and reciprocal-that the labor
or should not toll and sweat to pamper others
pride or minister TO others luxury, but for the
sustenance and comfort of those near and dear
TO him-is destined to certain triumph. IL
ausr prevail, for God reigns, and Earth was
not created TO be a theatre of injustice, OPP
preston and misery forever. II MUST tri-
umph FOR ell true prophecy afirms ana the
vindication Of the Divine benignity impera-
lively REQUIRES u. IL MUST triumph " ~
mocratic America cannot always remain the
scon of aristocrats and the shame of REFORM
ers and liberals throughout the Old World.
It 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 eifect-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-dayin
/ lengthening their cords and Strengthening
I, their stakes with a vigilance and activity
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 encamped in the heart of Central Ameri-
| ca, and waging a war of determination on the
: distracted inhabitants of it's 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
as we 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 manslaughterl and sentenced to five
A.. years. Imprisonment at hard labor as felons.
This is but a fair specimen OF what has long
. passed for ''iustice" in Kansas justice
g which takes the criminals into pay and aids
S them in hunting down. plundering and "wi-
N ping outr the innocent, whom 1t conslgns &c
the State prison II 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 Powel
: at whose instigation these villainies were an,
J. are perpetTated sits enthroned in the Whit,
House, and has Just achieved another fou
years. ascendancy in the Federal Govern
ment. Who, in view Of these facts, can sal
! that Republicans may now pile their arms
U even for an hour?
n Tur TprBuNE viii be, as it has been,
Political journal-avowedly, though not ex
clusively so. 1t recognizes the truth tia
Freedom and Slavery are here grappled i
q deadly conflict, and that in the result one o
Is them must lose all control over the Fedora
a Government. But, while 1t gives prominenc
- and emphasis to the discussion and elucida
IL ton of the great issue of the day, it sink
'e none Of the characteristics Of a Business an
es Family Newspaper. tn proceedings G
n Congress, like those in Kansas, will b
watched and reported by an able and fearles
u corps of Correspondents, while from Londor
rs Paris, Constantinople, Havana, San Francis
q. CO, Albany and other centers of interest, OF
g, special advices will he, as they have BEEF
" fresh and reliable. A member Of our Edit
IT. rial corps-Bayard Taylor-is now in Nortl
vn ern Europe, and will spend the Winter
q. Sweden, Lapland, Russia, thence making h
49,. way next season across Siberia and TaTtai
ne to the mouth of the Amour, and thence HON
~ ward by the Pacific and California, unler
some change of route shall promise great
in interest and profit to our readers, for who
40 alone he will write regularly throughout h
- adventurous Journey, which is likely to 7
$ quire two years for its completion. Our 7
ports Of the most interesting Lectures, Pub
,ve Meetings, &C., will be full and reliable, a
our Foreign and Domestic News made up wi
ie- a careful regard to the condensation into o
Tor ample columns of the greatest amount of
The telligence that is consistent with the use
,ed type of generous size. In short, if we fail
make THE TRIBUNE worth its cost, it sh
not be for want of expenditure or effort.
ing If it be deemed desirable by Republica
the that The TRIBUNE should be circulated
In their several localities, we urge them to S
- that Clubs be made up and forwarded in
III season. The Postmasters are semi-officia
on, admonished not to aid our circulation, but
Irlv urge instead that of journals deemed "soun
,,o and "Nationalo by the compatriots of Ate
We son and Stringfellow. We ask live Reput
tlal cans everywhere to take care that these
forts be not ~efiectual to quench the light
of Freedom in the murky mists of Slavery.
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