The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-11-12
independence, Feb. II, 1851.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
NEW VOLUME.

On the seventh Of September, 1861, THE
NETWORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE com
monced the twenty. first wear Of its existence :
THE DAILY TRIBTNE being some months
older, aud THE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE
somewhat younger. For more than twenty
years, this journal has labored in what its con-
duc;ors have felt to be the cause of Humanity,
Justice and Freedom, endeavoring to meliorate
the condition of the oppressed and unfortunate,
to honor and encourage useful e~xcrtion in what
ever sphere, and, to promote by all means, the
moral, Intellectual and material advancement
Of our country. 1t has aimed TO he right rath.
or than popular, and TO espouse and commend
to-day the truth that others may not be willing
to accept till tomorrow. In pursuing this
course, mistakes have doubtless been made and
faults committed but, having in all things
melted our readers to think and Judge for them.
selves rather than adopt hlindly our own or
others conclusions, We believe We may fairly
claim for this journal the credit of having
quail fled its readers to detect and expose even
It's own errors. To develop the minds of the
young by the most general, thorough and prac-
teal Education, and 10 encourage and stimulate
Productive Industry. through free grants Of
Public Lands to actual settlers and cultivators,
as also through the protection of immature or
peculiarly exposed branches from too powerful
foreign competition, are among the aims to
which this Journal has adhered through good
and evil report. and which it steadfaslly com
mends 10 American patriotism and phllanthrc-
py.
country We hold it TO have originated in q Re
bellion more wanton, wicked, inexcusable, than
was ever before known-a rebellion in the in
terests of the few against the many-a Rebel
lion designed to raise higher the walls Of caste
and tighten the chains of oppression. Having
done all We could without Il surrender of vital
principle TO avoid this War, and witnessed the
forbcarance, meakness. and long suffering W.,
which the Federal Government sor-,nt /, aysrt
its horrors, we hold it on clear duty with tbat
OF every "".er citizen, 10 stand hy the nation
anu ITS ialrl.. ,noscn rulers, and to second with
all our energies their efforts TO W hold the Union,
the Constitution, and the supremacy OF the
Laws. And, though the rebellion has become
through usurpation, deception, terror sm, and
spoliation. fcariully strong, we believe the
American Republic Ear stronger, and that the
unanimoGs. earnest efforts Of loyal hearts and
lands will insure its overthrow. But on all
questions affecting the objects, the scope, the
duration, of this most extraordinary contest, We
defer to those whom the American People have
clothed with authority. holding unity Of pur.
pose and of action indispensable in So gravean
emergency.
In n crisis like the present, our columns must
be largely engroesed with the current history Of
the war for the Union. and with calculations of
its more striking incidents, We shall not, low.
ever, remit that attention To Literature, To For
eign Affairs, 10 Agricultural Progress, To- Crops
Markets, he, 6c., which has already, We trust,
won for THE TRlBUNEan honorable position
among its contemporaries. Our main object is,
and shall be, to produce a comprehensive news.
paper, from which Il careful reaier may CLEAN 4
vivid and faithful history ot the times, not
merely in the domain of Action but in that Of
Opinion also. As our facilities for acquiring
Information increase with years, We trust that
an Improvement in the contents of Our journal
is perceptihle. and that, in the variety aud full
ness of intelligence afforded, we may still hope
to . make each day n critic on the last. In this
hope. We solicit "a continuance of the generous
measure Of patronage hitherto accorded 10 our
journal,
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