Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-02-19
Hllsrellalicons.
TIE TRIBUNE FOR 1857.

LIE ltlDONL IOu lCCts .
The Eection is past and its results proves that the
work evnlved the Republican party is vet com
pcic Ia I'll the Eastern aud Northern portions Of the
cnunrv-n New England, NewY ork Ohio and the North
We@t-thc Republican banner floats in triumph: while in
Southern Jersey Pennsylvania. Indiana aud Ilnois-iu
short wherever few newspapers taken, and where
schools too and too feeble to have eu-
Gated the present generation of votersthe black flag of
Slavery ohStructs the sunshine stranger to America
might distinguish those portions of country most
blessed with Education Intelligence Thrift and Virtue,
nv scanning the returns of the Presidential contest of 1856
We have failed of present not because the Pen
pie against hut because that large portion who did
not hear or read the argument and do not know what
the real questions at issue, went almost solid against
US reversing the verdict which the great majority of the
edurated and intelligent endcavored to pronounce.
These facts indicate the path of pressing duty. With
no unmanlv repinings hat Is ire, ncabewith
abatement of heart hope hecausc the triumph Of ber
ty in her ordeal is not won at the Long Island and
White Plains of her struggc-with no shadow of regret
that the responsibility of governing is not conded her
champions before the People fully ready sustain
thcuwe begin afresh the work of dinsng that vital
truth which in regard to the Of this world
well 0f the next, makes Free indeed. Now, in the
Slave Powers heyday of victory when its ministers and
servnr gathering and plotting to make the most of
their triumph and crush out the spirit which they vain
ly believe to be cruciied and enombed-now, when the
anthearted cold hearted who lately basked in the
sunshine of premature hopes hauling off to repair
damages and talking of abandoning the rugged of
Politics for quiet and howcry felds-now, in this
hour of WEAKNESS and shadow THE TRIBNE renews its
of eternal hostility to every form of tyranny
the bodies souls of mento the shameful assumption
that the beGghtcd and feeble, whether in soul body
to he regarded aud treated the convenience the
prey Of their wiser or stronger brethrento the domna
ton of cspos and oigarch whether of empires plan
tationsto the ensavers Of cities and Kingdoms in Europe
the breeders of children for the auctonbock and the
cottonied in Virginia Alabama.
The doctrine that human being ever created for
the benefit advantage of another-that all service be-
tween and man should be free and reCiproca-that
the aborer should not toll and sweat to pamper Others
pride minister to others luxury but for the susenance
and comfort of those and dear to hm-is destined
certain triumph 1t must prevail for God reigns and
Earth not created to be theatre of injustice oppres-
sion and misery for ever 1t must triumph for all true
prophecy arm and the vndicatiOn Of the Divine beng
nifty mpcatvely Eequires IT, 1t must triumph for De-
mocratc America cannot always remain the sco of aris
tocrat and the shame re0rmers and liberals through
out the Old World. 1t must triumph for Mans history
is chaos riddle, but everywhere instinct with
meaning and no heroic effort ever failed of its eectno
drop of martyr blood was ever shed in vain.
But if We Republicans disposed to fold our
in sumbcr adversaries would permit it. They
busy to-day in lengthenng their cords and strength
cnng their stakes with vigilance and activity which
vcas consciousness their part that their dominion
must be made forthwith or their sceptre will have
forever departed To-day, myrmdoms of the Slave Pow
er threaten and harass Northern Mexico encamped
in the heart of Central America and waging of ex
termination the distracted inhabitants Of its petty Re-
pubcs while by turns eers and scOwls at Cuba while
its most ruthless bands precptated devoted Kan
under the protection and smiles of the Federal Ad
minstraton. Even write, the telegraph informs
us that twenty Free-Stae men, guilty of attempting to
defend their homes against the rapne and violence of -
biOodt bandits, have been c0nvic-
ted by ecompes Court of manslaughter and sentenced
to FIVE years Imprisonment at hard labor elons This
but fair specimen of what has long passed for JUS
tice' in Kansas Justice which takes the criminals into
pay and aids them in hunting down. plundering and
wiping 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
unhappy Kansas has for twelve months endured even
Hungary Poland has never known and the Power at
whose instgaton these vaines and perpetra-
ted sits enthroned in the White House and has just
achieved another four years ascendancy in the Federal
Government Who, in view of these facts can say that
Republicans pile their arms, even for an hour
The TRITUNH will be- as it has been, Political Jour
na-avOwedly, though not exclusively II recognizes
the truth that Freedom and Slavery are here grapped
deadly conflict and that in the result of them
lose all control the Federal Government But while
gives prominence and emphasis to the discussion and
eucdaton of the great issue of the day it sinks of
the characteristics of Business and Family Newspaper
The proceedings of Congress- like those in Kansas will
be watched and reported by able and fearless corps of
Correspondents while from London, Paris Constantine
pie Havana San Francisco Albany and other of
interest special advices will be, they have been,
fresh and reliable. member of our Editorial corps
Bayard Taylor-is now in Northern Europe, and will
spend the Winter in Sweden, Iapland Russia thence
making his way next season Siberia and Tarary
the mouth of the Amour and thence homeward by the
Pacific and California unless some change of route shall
promise greater interest and profit to readers for
whom alone he will write regularly throughout his adven
urous journey, which is likely to require two years for
its completion Our reports of the most interesting Lee
lures Public Meetings, &c, will be full and reliable and
our Foreign and Domestic News made up with careful
regard to the condensation into ample columns Of the
greatest amount of Intelligence that is consistent with
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make The TRIBUNE worth its cost shall not be for want
| of expenditure effort.
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should he circulated in their several localities
urge them to that Clubs he made up and forwarded
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monshed not To aid circulation but to urge instead
that of journals deemed " sound and National by the
compatriots of Atchison and Stringellow We ask live
Republicans everywhere to take that these efforts be
not eectua TO quench the light of Freedom in the muir
| ky msts of Slavery.