The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1859-11-18
THE new YORK TRIBUNE,

THE TRIBusE-now more thxu eighteen years
old and having over Two Hundred. Thousand
subsorsbers, or constant pufchssers, ditused
will continue In essence what II has been
the earnest champion Of Liberty, Progress
and of whatever will conduce to 'onr national
growth in Virtue, Industry, knowledge, and
Prosperity. IL will continue to urge the eman.
opation not only OF the Black iaborer from
chattelsm and legal impotence, but Of the
White lik ewise from Land Monopoly Intemptr.
anoe, Ignorance, and the dependence on remote
Markets which paralyzes exertion by denying
TO Toll any adequate and morally certain re-
ward. Believing that the chief evil OF our time
is the inordinate multiplication and dispropor
ton of Non Producers, 1t will continue to war
against whatever tends to degrade Manual s,.,,nn
pcnse. II will infexibly commend the poIiuy
Of winning hither from Europe the Useful Arts,
and, wherever thoy may be needed, the Arti.
sans rs well, for whose products our country
Is now running rocklessly into debt, while our
Ilaborers roam IN frui,less quest Unemployment,
leaving their children In want of bread, though
the farmer Ia too often compelled to sell his
crops ut most inadequate prices. In short,
while battling against Fibusterism and every
other manifestation Of that evil spirit which
seeks through the spoliaton Of other countries
that aggrandZement which Is to be truly ut.
I tanned only through the due development and
cultivation of our internal resources, 1t will
urgently advocate more effectively discrimi'
mating Tariff, the Freedom of the Public Lands
the construction of "A Railroad from tho navi
gable waters of the Mississippi, to those Of The
Pacific, and every other measure which seems
tu Us calculated To enhance the dignity ur the
recompense Of Labor and promote the wel.bc
ing ut Mankind.
/ The "irreprcssible conflict" between Dark
ness and Light, Inertia and Progress, Slavery
land Freedom, moves steadily onward. ISOLATED
acts of folly and madness may for the mOmen
give II seeming advantage to Wrong: but Coo
stu roigns, and the Ages are truo TO Humanity
land right. The year lSG0 must witness me
lmurable conflict between these irreconcilabl'
antagonists. The question -"Shall Human
Slavery be further strengthened and difuseI
lhy the power and under the flag of the Feder,
Sn ans e for sndess Al
versus Negroes for tho Nogroless" IL tho bat
tlecry of the embodied Millions who, havinl
lust swept Pennsy lvania, Ohio and the North
West, appear In the new Congress, backed bl
nearly every Free State, to demand u roCogni
lion of every mans right to cultivate and i'm
prove modicum of the carths surface whCr'
lever ho has moi been anticipated y the State
cCssiun IL another. Free Homes. and the con
secratun OF the virgin soil VI the Territories Il
Free Labor two requirements, but one policy
must largely absorb the attention OF Cnngres
Through the ensuing session, aS uf the Peup
, in the succeeding Presidential canyass and
whatever the immediate issue, we canno
doubt that the ultimate verdict will be In nc
cord at once with the dictates ot impartia
U anu ilt hlShtS VI Mdll
Having made arrangements for fuller am
more graphic reports of the dongs of Congress
and Of whatever else transpiiing at the FEEDER
al Metropolis shall seem worthy of public re
gard, aud having extended both our Foroigi
and Domestic Correspondence and strength
'cned onr Editorial staff, we believe Tux TRl
BrSE may safely challenge a comparison will
any rival, whether AS an exponent OF princi
plies or as n reliable mirror Of the passing
world. We purpose not to DO surpassed no
anticipated IN the collection or presentation
, of Intelligence, though we eschew that repu
tatiun for enterprise which is acquired BY
bribng messengers and clerks IN pubic office
to cunuiye at the premature publication q
tir"at'"- - othor nf,rl decVmcnts. We priz,
accuracy OF Statement-1uite as hEnly ~
,pr"mptiludc but endeavcr not Ia sacrifice tht
latter while securing the former. Essentially
Tue TrBCSE will be what II has been, whit
we Shall constantly study To improve its every
feature. and make each day critic on th'
last" The general verdict OF the Press, an'
and the pdblic has affirmed the success uf nuI
past labors, and tn So uf the future shall b,
characterized by equal earncstncss and ASST
duty. We ask those who believe the genera
influence of our journal to he sllutary to ai'
us in extending that influence through an in
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