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NEW-YORK TRiBUNE-NEW VOLUME. f,
IN On the seventh of September 1851 THE
NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE comm encedtbe
twenty first year of its existence; the THE DAI.
LY TIKI BUNE being some months older and THE
SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE somewhat younpsr
For mere than twenty years. this journal has a Il
bored what It's conductors have felt to be the
cause oi Ill I'm anity Justice and Freed ON endear.
ORIG moliorate the condition of the Oppressed
au, unfortunate, to honor and encourage usefrIi
exerton in whatever sphere, and, to promote by |
al means the moral telectual and materi al ad |
yanrement of our country. 1t has aimed to h.
right rather than popular, and to espouse ana
commend to-day the truth that others NAV not h.
willing to accept till tomorrow. In pursuin-I
this course mistakes have doubtless been mad
and faults committed but having in all tbinps
melted our readers TO think and Judge for them
selves rather than adopt blindly our own or 9th
ers conclusions, believe we may fairly claim
for this journal the credit of having qualified its
readers to detect and expose even its own errors
To develop the minds of the young by the rnosa
general. thorough and practical Education. and tt
encourage and stimulate Productive Industry
through free grants of Public Lands to actual set
tersand cultivators. as also through the protec-
ton OF immature or peculiarly exposed branches
from too powerful foreign competition, among
the aims to which this journal has adhered
through gotd and evil report. and which it stead
fastly eommends to American patriotism and
philanthropy.
As to the Civil War now devastating our conn.
try, we hold 1t to have originated in a Rebellion
more wanton. wicked. inexcusable then was ev
er before known-a Rebellion in the interest of
the few against the many-a Rebellion designed
10 raise higher the walls of caste and tighten the
chains OF oppression. Having done all we could
without surrender of vital principle to avoid
this War and witnessed the forbearance meek
ness, and long suffering with which the Federal
Government sought to avert its horrors we hold
IL our clear duty with that of every other citizen
to stand by the nation and its fairly chosen ru
lers, and to second with all our energies their ef
forts to uphold the Union, the Constitution, and
the supremacy of the laws. And though the Re-
bellion has become, through usurpation .deception
terroIsm and spoilation, fearfulIy strong we be
lieve the American Republic far stronger, and
That the unanimous earnest efforts of 10y al hearts
and hands will insure its overthrow Rut on ali
questions affecting the objects the seone and dr
ration of this most extraordinary contest we de-
Ter to those whom the American People have
clothed with authority, holding unity of purpose
and OF action Indispensable in so grave an emer-
gency Isas
In crisis like the present, our columns mast
be largely engrossed with the current historvr of
the War for the Union, and with calculations of
Its more striking incidents. We shall not how
ever. remit that attention to Literature TO For
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Markets. DC. which has already, we trust won for
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main OF action but In that of Opinion also As
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with years. we trust that improvement in the
contents OF our journal is perceptible, and thar.
in the variety and fulness of intelligence afford
ed, we may still hope to make each day critic
on the last" In this hope, we solicit contipu
anee of the generous measure of patronage hith.
erto accorded to our journal.
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