Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-01-15

entombedEnow when the faint-hearted or
| cn,A-heatted who lately basked in the sun
shine Of our premature hopes are hauling of
TO repair damages and talking of abandoning
the rugged arena of Politics for more quiet
aud howery fclds-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-tot 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
prev of their wiser or stronger brethren-to the
domination of despots and oligarchs, whether
of empires or plantations-to the enslavers of
cities and Kingdoms in Europe OF the breeders
of children for the auction-block and the cot
ton-feld In Virginia or Alabama.
The doctrine that no human being was ever
created for the benefit OF advantage of an
other-that all service between man and man
should be free and reciprocal-that the labor
err 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. 1t
MUST 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 all true prophecy affrms and the
vindication of the Divine benignity impera-
lively requires il. 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.
II 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 efect-no drop Of martyr blood was
ever shed in vain.
But even If we Republicans were disposed
to fold our arms in slumber, our adyersaries
would not permit it. They are busy today in
lengthening their cords and strengthening
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 nave 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 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
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 manslaughteri 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 outs the innocent, whom it c~onsigns 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 perpetrated sits enthroned in the White
House, and has Just achieved another four
years. ascendancy in the Federal Govern
ment. Who, in view Of these facts, can say
that Republicans may now pile their arms,
even for an hourP
THE TRIBUNE will be, as it has been, a
Political journal-avowedly, though not ex-
c~lusively so. II recognizes the truth that
Freedom and Slavery are here g~rappled in
deadly conflict, and that in the result one of
them must lose all control over the Federal
Government. But, while IL 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. Tn 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 HtNt etdSon dCfOSS OlDCTId ana ldTIdTN
, 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
alone he will write regularly throughout his
adventurous journey, which is likely to re-
quire two years for its completion. Our re.
e ports of the most interesting Lectures, Public
e Meetings, &C., win be full and reliable, ant
q our Foreign and Domestic News made up with
a careful regard to the condensation into oul
ample columns of the greatest amount of in
a telligence that is consistent with the use o.
e type of generous size. In short, If we fail t.
make THE TRIBUNE worth its cost, it shall
not be for want of expenditure or effort.
If it be deemed desirable by Republican,
that THE TRIBUNE should be circulated il
their several localities, We urge them to Sc,
d that Clubs be made up and forwarded in dut
|. season. The Postmasters are semi-oficially
admonished not to aid our circulation, but t
urge instead that of journals deemed "sound'
and "NationaP' by the compatriots of Atchi
son and Stringfellow. We ask live Republi
cans everywhere to take care that these eff
forts be not ~effectual to quench the light O
Freedom in the murky mists of Slavery.
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