The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-01-01
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1861.

THE TRIBUNE FOR 1867.
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We have found our account in it. The circula
tion of TIL TRIBUN E is steadily increasing,
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news than when we used smaller sheel, and
this. difficulty we can only mend by by fire.
qoently publishing supplementary pages.
The close of the war has imposed upon TIL Z
RlBUNE E the discussion of momentous and
peculiar problems. We have met met them as
best we could, laboring with sincerity for Free
dom, Social Progress, Political Equality, I'M
partial Sutfrage--All Rights for All. A Re-
publican President became the enemy of Re-
publicanism, aud we have been called upon to
denounce and expose the treacheres OF degra-
ded Administration, 1t was not without pain,
certainly not without much thinking, that we
made an issue with President johnson. The
people approved our course by returning their
radical representatives to power The elections
! oflS66-as importent to the nation rs Lees sur
render-make new duties. Reconstruction is
now the duty of the eountry-political recon
struction is now the duty ofthe country-polltl-
cal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. III finances
and tariffs We are no longer pressed by war
necessities, and we must amend our war expert
ments. The present condition of the currency
| is grieyious evil. Trade suffers; our manufac-
! turing interest are in precauous state. A dol
| lar does not mean dollar, but its fraction. 1t
may be sixty cents, it may be ten. 1t is SEN
timent, not a fact. When the laborer earns his
dollar, he does not know whether he has one
loaf of bread or ten. All business is feyerish
and unsettled. Wethink this can only be re-
medied by wise and intrepid policy at Wash
lngton-by reducing the currency to the spe-
Gle basis, Upon this We shall insist.
The necessity of Protection to Labor again
presses upon us. We regret that on this most
Iinportent measure the Republican party is divi-
ded. An hone; | u m schicvous minority in
the West, particularly, are endevoring to create
policy which can only result in the prostration
of American lndustry-the degradation of La
Dor and the aggrandIsement of English capital
lists, During the many years of our work we
have struggled against this Interest We be-
HeIe Projection more necessary now than ever
before, and we shall insist upon the broadest
and wisest Legislation for the Rights of Labor
| ! n the perplexing question of Reconstruction
we see no reason to amend the policy which we
| have asserted since the close of the war 1t
then seemed to us that Emancipation of the
Black should be followed by Suffrage for the
| Black. We did not see the wisdom Of policy
CT promiscuous contiscation and hanging. We
had too much blood in war to ask for blood in
peace--even to gtatify angry yengence 1t
seemed lmportent that the South should con-
cede SuHerage, and that the n orth should COLI
! cede Amnesty, Some of our friends disapproy-
ed of this; but Congress has followed our adj
wee. Amnesty has been approved by Congress
to greater extent than we have claimed in
/ The TRI BUN f. We have held that the men
starved captiyes in Rebel dungeons, who muir
| dered surrendered prisoners, who violated the
rules of war, and aided the assassination of Mr..
Lincoln, should be punished. Congress and
| Ihe Administration have agreed that no punish
ment should be inflicted even upon men who
are charged wlthsthese crifpes and the ONLY
measure looking ike punishment is the amend
meht OF dIstranchisement from holding office
which Is merely sentimental and not a prac-
! teal penalty. On the other hand the passage
OF the Civil Rights Bill, the Freedman's Bureau
Bill, and the Bill for suffrage in the District of
| Columbia, show that reconstruction will not be
consummated without suffrage and protection
for the Blacks. The policy fTHE Til IBUNE
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