White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-01-23
The New York Tribune.
NEW VOLUME.

On the seventh Of September, 1861, THE
NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE com
menced the twenty-frst year fits existence
THE DAILY TRIBUNE being some months
older and THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
somewhat Younger. For more than twenty
years, this journal has labored in what its con.
ductors have felt to be the cause of Humanity
Justice and Freedom. endeavoring to meliora.e
the condition of the oppressed and unfortunate
| to honor and encourage useful exertiOn in what.
ever sphere, and, 70 promote by all means the
moral, intellectual and material advancement
of our county, 1t has aimed to be right rather
than popular, and to esI1ase and commend to-
day the truth that others may nc: oe willing to
accept till to morrow. 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 themselves rather
than adopt blindly our own or Others concln-
sons, We 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 most
general, thorough and practical Education, and
to encourage and stimulate Productive Industry,
through free grants of Public Lands to actual
settlers and cultivatOrs, 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 good and evil report, and which
it steadfastIy cOmmends to American patriotism
and philanthropy.
As to the Civil War now devastating our
country, we hold it to have originated in a Re-
bellion more wanton, wicked, inexcusable, than
was ever before known Rebellion in the in
terests o. :h cN ,sinst I'll many-a ,.eoeiiion
designed to raise higher the walls af caste and
tighten the chains of oppression. Having done
all we could without a surrender of vital prin.
ciple to avoid this War, and witnessed the for
bearance, meekness and long suffering with
which the Federal Government sought to avert
its horrors, We hold it our clear duty, with that
of everv other citizen, to stand by the nation
and its fairly chosen rulers, and to second with
all our energies their efforts to uph Did the Union,
the Constitution, and the supremacy of THE Law.
And, though the Rebellion has become, through
usurpation, deception, terrorism and spoliation,
fearfully strong, We believe the American Re-
public far stronger, and that the unanimous,
earnest efforts Of loyal hearts and hands will in
sure its overthrow. But on all questions affect
ing the objects, the scope, and duration of this
most extraordinary contest, we defer to those
whom the American People have clothed with
authority. holding unity of purpose and of action
in so grave an emergency.
In crisis like the present. our columns must
be largely engrossed with the current history
of the War for the Union, and with calculations
of its more striking incidents. We shall not,
however, remit that attention to Literature, to
Foreign Affairs, to Agricultural Progress, to
Crops, Markets, &C., &C.. W hich has already, we
trust, won for THE TRIBUNE an honorable
position among its contemporaries. Our main
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sive newspaper, for which careful reader may I
CLEAN vivid and faithful history Of the times, !
not merely in the domain of Ac,ion but in that
Of Opinion also As our facilities for acquiring |
increase with years, we trust that
an improvement in the contents Of our journal |
is perceptible. and that, in the variety and full
ness Of Intelligence afforded, we may still hope
10 "make each day critic on the last" In THE |
hope, we solicit continuance of the generous
measures Of patronage hitherto accorded to our
ournal.