, 1865-12-20
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
PROSPECTUS FOB 1866,
" Equal Justice to al1---Fair Wages for
Honest Labor.0

Altef ious years OF desperse cociffct the pr1nei-
pies for which the TalausE, In common Will
patriotic soldiers md c,tIzeus has commended haye
aeh}eyed theif endurtn, triumph The Union man
md women Of the Great Republic have won tho
moet important victory siuce the dawn or ths
Christian era- The rebellion Il crushed, and soqn
tho foot Of ro slaye viii tread American soil. Tho
fntu1e is fnll Of the promise Of greatness to The
American nation md name Il Ia the duty OF every
c2tiEeuto Zee to 1t that there steps backward
that the march Of the Republic toward universal
freedom. equal rights. and pure Democracy shall
be onward and upward In the midst Of the great
events now ttansp,r1rg, while the nation, A. 1t
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