New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-11
THE Tribune FOR 1860.

In the universal expectation, the year just before
us comes freighted with extraordinary interest for
the hopes and the destnies of mankind. The short
but bloody war of 1859 has left Italy volcano
and Europe in arms. The ghosts Of murdered
nations haunt the dreams of the young KAISER at
Schoenbrunn; the death-cry of betrayed, garoted
Liberty still rings in the ears OF the lucky con-
sprator enthroned by the Seine. The SICK
Man" by the BOsphorus is with difficulty made 10
preserye little longer the semblance OF Life, While
the MIXTURES gather to discover and feast on his re-
mains Great Britain, just relieved from periious
and wasting strife in India ia about to plunge into
another. less serious but costly In China, smulta-
neously with an agitation for more or less real
Reform in her Parliamentary representation at
home. Russia perseveres in the arduous TASK oil
emapcpating her forty millions Of serfs. so nobly
initiated by her young Emperor, though he finds 1t
far more difficult, even for an Autocrat to vanqush
moss grown abuses and venerable wrongs than 10
acouiesce in and uphold them. Germany dreamly
ponders the question, I" Is there verify Germany
{. or ia this but word artfully devised to hide
from Forty Millions of rational, cultivated, med
"itatiye people their country's degradation and
50 impotence as the heir-lOoms and apanages OF
ssome twoscore Of imperial, royal and noble
..houses'r France, gagged and blinded, has yet
not ceased to think nor to feel shame in grovehng
beneath the iron heel of despot's armed egions.
Spain counts her beads in silence yet drowsiy ap-
prehends that this is not the Eleventh but the Nine
teenth Century. In brief, the Old World, aroused
from the slumber of centuries by the neigh OF the
Iron Horse the low thunder of the Steam Printing
Press the lightning fash of the world girding Tel
egrapb. dimy realizes that the long night OF intel
lectual and political subjugaton Is passing away,
| and that the day of Liberty and Justice for the
long suffering Millions is dawning.
In our own country the 'irrepressible conflict
between Darkness and Light Inertia aud Progress,
Slavery and Freedom, moves steadily onward
Isolated acts of folly and madness may for the mo-
ment give seeming advantage to Wrong; but God
still regns, and the Ages are true to Humanity and
Right. The year 1860 must witness memorable
conflict between these irrecOncilable antagonists.
The question:" Shall Human Slavery be further
strengthened and difused by the power and
a. upder the flag of the Federal Union ?" is now to
receive a momentous if not conclusive answer.
Land for the Landless, versus Negroes for the
"Neeroless" is the battle-cry of the embodied
Millions who, having just swept Pennsylvania, OHIO
and the Northwest, appear in the new Congress
backed BY nearly every Free State, to demand
recognition of every mans right to cultivate and
improve modicum Of the earth's surface wherever
he has not been anticipated BY the States cession
to another. Free Homes, and the conservation OF
the virgin soil of the Territories TO Free Labor
two requirements, but one Pohcy-rnust largely
absorb the attention of Congress through the ensu
ing session, as of the People in the succeeding
Presidential canvass; and, whatever the immediate
issue. we cannot doubt that the ultimate verdict
will be in accord at once with the dictates OF nm
partial Philanthropy and the inahenable Rights OF
Man.
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