Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-02-26
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THE TRIBUNE FOR 1857.

The Election is past and its results proves that the
work dcyoyed on the Republican party is not yet com
petcd In a the Eastern and Northern portions OF the
courtrvir New-Encland. New Ynrk Ohio and the North
Wc~t-thc Republican banner floats in triumph while in
Southern Jersey. Pennsy yvania Indiana and lllnoisin
short wherever few newspapers are taken and where
common schools are and feeble to have edu
Gated the present generation of vnersthe black flag of
Slavery oStructS the sunshine. stranger to America
might distinguish those portions of our country most
blessed with Education Intelligence. Thrift and Virtue
hv scanning the returns of the Presidential contest of 1856
We have failed of present success not because the Peo
pie are against but because that large portion who did
not hear read the argument and do not know what
Us reversing the verdict which the great majority OF the
educated and intelligent cndeavored to pronounce
These facts Indicate the path of pressing duty With
no unmany repmingS what is irrel ocate-with no
abatement heart hope because the triumph of Iber
tv in her ordeal is not won at the Long Island and
White Plains of her strug2e-with shadow of regret
that the responsibility of governing is not conded to her
champions before the People fully ready to sustain
thcm-we begin afresh the work of dfusing that vital
truth which in regard n the of this world as
we'll of the next. makes Free indeed Now, in the
Slave Powers hevay of victory when its ministers and
scrvtnrS gathering and plotting to make the most OF
their triumph and crush out the spirit which they vain
ly believe to he crlcied and entomhednow, when the
fant-hearted cold-hearcd who lately basked in the
sunshine of premature hopes hauling off to repair
damages and talking of abandoning the rugged arena of
| Politics for quiet and howery heldS-now in this
hour of wcariness and shadow, The TRIBUNE renews its
VOWS of eternal hostility to every form of tyranny
the bodies souls OF men-to the shameful assumption
that the lenghtcd and feeble. whether in soul body,
are regarded and treated the convenience or the
prey of their wiser stronger brehreno the domina-
on of depnt and ogarchs whether OF empires or plan
tationsto enslavers of cities and Kingdoms in Europe
or the breeders of children for the aucOnbCck and the
cotton-fed in Virginia Alabama.
The doctrine that human being ever created for
the benefit advantage Of anOherthat all service be-
tween man and man should be free and recprocalthat
the alorer should not toll and sweat to pamper others
pride minister to others luxury but for the sustenance
comfort of those and dear to nis destined to
certain triumph 1t must prevail for God regns, and
Earth was not created be theatre of injustice Oppres
sion and misery for 1t must triumph tor all true
prophecy airs and the vndcation of the Divine benig
ny imuerativcly requires it. 1t must triumph for De
mocratiC America cannot always remain the sco OF ars
and the shame of efocrs and liberals through
out the Old World. 1t must triumph; for Mans history
is not a chaos riddle but everywhere instinct with
meaning and heroic effort ever failed of its efect-no
|, drop of martyr blood was ever shed in vain.
But even if we Republicans disposed to fold our
arms in slumber adversaes would not permit it. They
are busy to-day in lenghenng their cords and strength
enng their stakes with vigilance and activity which re-
vealS consciousness their part that their dominion
must he made forthwith or their sceptre will have
forever departed. To-day myrmdOms of the Slave Pow
threaten and harss Northern Mexico are encamped
in the heart of Central America and waging OF
, puics while it by turns eers and scowS at Cuba. while
its most ruthless bands precipitaed on devoted Kan
under the protection and smiles of the Federal Ad
II minstraton. Even write the telegraph informs
us that twenty FreeState men, guilty of attempting to
defend their homes against the rapne and violence of Bu
ord and Titus boOdthrsty bandits, have been cOnvc
ted by ecomptes Court of mansaughter and sentenced
to five years imprisonment at hard labor felons This
is hut fair specimen of what has long passed for jus
tice'' in Kansas Justice which takes the criminals into
J. pay and aids them in hunting down, pundering and
wipng OUT the innocent, whom ii cOnsgns to the
State prison they goaded into the madness OF
resisting their oppresors Such crimes and wrongs
unhappy Kansas has for twelve months endured even
Hungary Poland has known and the Power at
whose instigatiOn these vanes 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 that
Republicans may pile their arms even for an hour
Tue TRIBUNE will be- as il has been, Political Jour
nal-avowedly though not exclusively Ii recognizes
truth that Freedom and Slavery here grapped in
deadly conflict and that in the result of them must
lose all control the Federal Government But, while
it gives and emphasis to the discussion and
euCdaOn 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 centres of
interest special avices will be- they have been,
fresh and reliable. \ member Of Editorial corps
Bayard Taylor-is in Northern Europe and will
spend the Winter in Sweden, apand, Russia thence
making his way next Siberia and Tarary
the month of the Amour and thence hOmewar by the
Pacific and California unless change of route shall
promise greater interest and profit to readers for
whom alone he will write regularly throughout his adven-
rous journey which is likely to require two years for
its completion. Our reports of the most interesting Lee
lures, Public Meetings, &c, will he full and reliable, and
our Foreign and Domestic News made up with careful
regard to the condensation into ample columns of the
greatest of Intelligence that is consistent with
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Is of expenditure effort.
If it be deemed desirable by Republicans that THE TRI
should he circulated in their several localities,
urge them to that Clubs he made up and forwarded
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monished not to aid circulation, but to urge instead
that of journals deemed sound" and National" by the
compatrots of AtchiSon and Strngfellow We ask live
Republicans everywhere to take that these efforts I've
not eiecua to quench the light of Freedom in the
!, Ky mists of Slavery.