White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-02-20
NEW VOLUME.

| On the seventh Of September, 1861, THE
NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE com.
menced the tw enty-first year Of its existence;
| THE DAILY TRIBUNE being some months
older and THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
somewhat younger. For more than twenty
wears, this journal has labored in what its con-
ductors have felt to be the cause of Humanity
Justice and Freedom, endeavoringto meliora.e
the condition of the oppressed and unfortunate,
to honor and encourage useful exertion in what
ever sphere, and, to promote by all means the
moral, intellectual and material Advancement
of our country. 1t has aimed to be right rather
than popular, and to espouse and commend to-
dsy 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
rea ders to think and judge for themselves rather
than adopt bindly our own or Others concu-
sions. ge believe we may fairly claim for this
journal the credit of having qualified its readers
In detect and expose even its own errors. To
devotion the minds of the young by the most
General. thorough and practical Education, and
IN encourage and stimulate Productive Industry,
tbrouob free grants of Public Lands to actual
settlers and cutivators, as also through the pro-
lection of immature or peculiarly EXPOSED
branches from too powerful foreign competition,
are among the aims to which this journal has
adhered through Soou anu ep''t' "' "uiN"
it steadtistly commences 10 American patrio''sn
and philanthropy.
As 70 the Civil War now devastating our
country, we hold it to have originated in a Re-
beIliop more wanton, wicked, inexcusable, than
was ever before known-a Rebellion in the in
terests of the few against the many Rebellion
designed to raise higher the walls OF caste and
tighten the chains of oppression. Having done
all we could without a surrender OF vital prin
4 III. e.
ciple to svoid this War, and witnessed the Tor
bearance, meekness and ionS-sunerinS with
which the Federal Government sought 10 avert
its horrors, we hold 1t our clear duty, with that
of every other citizen, to stand by the nation
and its fairly chosen rulers, and to second with
all our energies their efforts to Jpn Did the omon'
the Constitution ano ,ne Vi ' ,h a
esurp s,,u . 20 believe the American Re
'ea nru s" S,a, and that the unanin,ous.
P us as,o,,s nfIoyaI hearts and hands will in
ea'": ~ .,h.n, Rrt ON all question. affect
SUI the objects tho scope, and duration of this
Jug ms, ~" ",,r,orJ;nsrv contest. we defer to those
nus .La ,ar;c,n Peonfe have clothed with
Hn .1; .ne aid;nn nn;,r of nurnose and ofact;on
;rd;snensabIe in so era, @ an emergency.
10 I,-aeiv engros.ed with the current history
IA w., &c tho IT,;on- md with calculation.
OF .ne a. ~. IN inc;dsn.s we shall not.
hovov,r .emit that attention to Literature, to
Eore;,n Affairs. 10 Agricultural Progress, to
roreisn Ah - wb;cb has already VIC
crops, Mars g.. TM Ne TPJnITNE an honorable
lru:.: won ,n no. ;ts co,emno,ar;es Our main
ppslt,on ano Iii nj 10 80 n-pdncs. cornrcben.
ooJect Is anu s"a.i oe ~ - me-,
sNe he~sP.Pe, iot e.;.hG,I h;s,arr Of ,bs time:
In, merely in the domain of Action but in that
not mere! ~ s'e nn. s,c;I;,;o. co- accn;rin !.
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