Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-15
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1887.

1llallI1u.nz l THE TRIBUNE FOR 1887.
 1UyHE Eecrion is past, and its result proves that I U the work devolved on the Republican party is not yet completed. In all the Eastern and Northern 1 portions of the country-in New England, New jr1ork, Ohio and the North West-the Republican banner floats in triumph whilein Southern Jersey. Pennsylvania, Indiana and nlinois-in short wherever few newspapers are taken and where common schools are tco and too feeble to have I educated the present generation of voters-the l black flag of Slavery obstracts ths sunshine A stranger to America might distinguish those DOT tions of our country most blessed with Education intelligence Thrift and Virtue by scanning the re l turns of the Presidential contest of 1856 We have failed of present success not because tke people are against us but because that large portion who did not hear CT read the argument and do not know what were the real questions at issue, went almost solid against us reversing the verdict whic, the great majority of the educated and intelligent en- deavorcd to pronouuc.
 These facts indicate the path of pressing duty With TO nnmanly rerininss over what is irrevo- I cabie-with no abatement of heart or hope be- cause the triumph Of Liberty in her new ordeal is not won at the Long Island and White Plains of her struggle-wth shadow of regret that the re- | sponsibility of governing is not eonfded to her champions before the Peupie fully ready to sus- tain thcm-wc begin aresh the work of eiGusing thst vital truth which, in regard to the concerns of this world as well that of the next makes Free
 
 tory when it1 ministers and servitors gathering and plotting to nakc the most Of their triumph and crush out the spirit which they vainly be- licFe to be c,ncified and entombed-now. when the fant-heartcd or cold hearted who lately basked in the sunshine of their premature hopes, hauling off to repair damages and talking Of abandoning the rugged arena of Politics for more quiet and aowery telds-uow in this hour Of weariness and shadow, THE TRIBUNE renews its of eternal hostility to every form of tyranny the bodies or souls of rnen-to the shameful assumption thaa the benightcd and feeble whether in soul or body are to be regarded and treated the convenience or the prey Of their wiser stronger brethren-to the domination of despots and olisarths, 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 cotton field ill Vir- 1 gna or Alabama.
 1 The doctrine that no hHnan being Was ever crea- ted for the benefit advantage of auotlcr-that all service between man and man should be free and | reciprocal-that the laborer should net 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 dcstitcd to certain tri- uTnph. It must prevail for God reigns, and Earth wds E,t created to be thcatr. of injustice, oppDs; ton and misery for ever. It must triumph for all trua prophecy afirms that the Divine bcnignity iln 1 perativry requires it. It must triumph for Dem ocratic America cannot always remain the scoff of arstocrats and the shame uf reformers and liberals i throughout the Old World. It must triumph for man $ history is not chaos a riddle, but every where instinct with meaning and no heroic effort ever failed of it's effect no drop of martyr blood ever shed in van
 But even if We Republicans were disposed to fold our arms in slumscr, our adversaries would not l permit it. They engaged to-day in lengthen- ing their cords and strengthening their stakes with a vigilance and activity which reveals a conscious . ness on their part that their dominion must bc made sure forthwith or their sceptrc will have for ever departed. To-day, myrIniIoms of the Slave Power threaten and haraSs Northern Mexico are encamped in the heart of Central America and wa | ging war of cxtermination on the distracted in- habtants of its petty Republics, while it by turns leers and scowls at Cuba, whiic its most ruthless l bands precpitated devoted Kansas, under tho protection and smiles of the Federal Adlniuis- tration. Even we write the telegraph informs us that twenty Free State men, guilty of attempt i ing to defend their homes against the rapine and violence of Bufolds and Iituss blood thirsty 1 bandits have been convicted bp Lecomptes Court of mauslaughter and sentenced to five years i'm prisonment at hard labor felons. Hui. is but lair specimen of what has long passed for justice in kansaS-a justice which takes the criminals into | pay and aids them in hunting down, plundering and "wping out the innocent whom 1t conSigns to the State prison if they goadcd jnto the mad ness of resisting their oppressors. Such crimes and wrongs is unhappy kalsas has for twelve months been enduring, even Hung ny Poland has never known {; and the power at whose nstigafion these vliinics were anu are perpetrated sits ethroned in the White House, ant has just achieved another
 
 Who inview ot these facts, can say that Repub.i cans muy now pile their arms, even tor an hour.
 The TRIBUNE will be, as it has been, a Political journal -avawedly, though not exclusively so. It recognizes the truth that Freedom and Slavery here grppled in deadly conflict, and that in the suit one of them must lose all control over the fed eral Government But, while it gives prominence and emphasis to the discussion and eucidation of the great issue of the day, it sinks none the ch acteristics of Business and Family Newspaper. Df tbnUr ike rhnSeO Ot kan will be watched and reported by an able and fear less corps of Correspondents, while trem London, Paris, Constan,nopi pie Ha>ana San Francisco, All a. ny and other centeys of interest special advices will be, they have heen, fresh and reliable. A member of our editorial corps-Bayard iayor-is now in Northern Europe, and will spend thr winter in Sweden, Lapand, Russia, thence making his way next season across Siberia and Tartary to the mouth ot the Amour, and thence homeward by the Pacific and California, unless some change of route shall promise greater intcteSt and profit to our readers for whuln alone he will write regularly throughout his adventurous journey, wheh is like ly to rcquec two years tor its completion. Our re- ports of the most interesting Lectures, Public l Meetings &c., will be full and reliable and our | Foreign and Domestic News made up with a care full regard to the condensation into ample col umns of the greatest amount of intelligence that Is consistent with the of type of generous size.- i! In short, if we fail to make THE TRIBUNE worth it's cost it shall not be for want ot expenditure l ekort.
 l If it ba deemed desirable by Republicans that l THE TRIBUNE should be circulated in their sever al localities, urge them to that Clubs be made up and forwarded in due season. The Post masters are semi-ot1icially admonished not to aid circulation, bn to urge instead that of journals deemed sound and National by the compa- triots of Atchison and Stringfellow. We ask live | Republicans everywhere to take that these ef- forts be not eiiectual to quench the light of Free dom in the muIky mists ot Slavery.
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