Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-12-17
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1868.
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Liberty. The War of the Rebellion
being closed, we have now TO decide
whether the fundamental idea which
impelled and justified the Rebellion
shall dominate over our whole coun-
try, molding her i stitutions aud
shaping her destiny. If it be true
that God has not created all men,
but only all White men, in His own
image, and maize them equal in polit.
ical and civilrights, then il is worlds
wide calamity that Grant did not
surrender to Ice at Appomattox; aud
"Ihe Lost Cause, trodden into mir
under the hoofs of Sheridan's rough
riding cavalry, not only should but
will be regained in Constitutional
Conventions and at the ballot-boxes.
Ii the Black race, because they are
Black, should be excluded from the
jury box and impelled from the ballot.
box, then Stonewall jackson ought
TO head the roll of American martyrs.
emblazoned high above the names Of
Warren and Mercer and Pulaski; of
Ellsworth, Lyon, Baker, Reynolds.
Wadsworth k,..a ~, Sedgwick, and
Mcpherson.
1t is difficult 10 argue with blind.
besotted prejudice, grounded IN igno.
rance aud fortified by self,conceit.-
Devoid of reason, it is hardly amena
bic to reason But millions who
would listen unmoved TO appeals
based on Justice and Humanity can
be stirred by facts which affect their
own interest and safety The naked
truth that every Southern State re
constructed on the White basis is TO
day Rebel State-shaped and rul-
ed by men who cxecrated Lincoln's
reluctant and tardy resistance to the
Rebellion as q causcless and criminal
aggression, and profoundly reloiced
over Bull Run as their victory-wlll
prove invincible, if we can but bring
it home to the apprehension Of every
loyal voter. There is no paramount
question Of good faith or gratitude
to the Blacks. Their votes are as
necessary to the preponderance of
White loyalty as to their own pros
lection and security. Reconstruct
the South on the White basis, and
every one of the fifteen States which
held slaves in 1860 will be intensely,
overwhelmingly Copperhead thence
forth and evermore. Allow to day
the plea that the Blacks are ignorant
and degraded, and those whom Won
thereby clothe with power will take
good care that the plea shall be as
valid and underground century
hence as it now is. Pubic Education
and Civil Rights for the Freedmen
can only be achieved and maintained
through the ballot. eve are fol
Negro Sutfrage-the way they suffer
| ed in New Dreams, was the inscrip
ton on a banner borne in a late Con-
sentative or Democratic procession
in Baltimore; and the spirit which
dictated that avowal is still rampant
in the South But for what Is suig,
matized as Military Despotism, it
would daily avenge by outrage and
infection what it deems negro treach
! cry to the Southern cause.
The Tribune has declined to be
lured or turned aside from the Main
| Question. 1t has persistently refus-
cd to swell the clamor for vengeance
on the defeated Rebels, whether by
execution or by confscation; and one
Of its strong reasons for this course
a conviction that no drop of Rebel
blood could be coolly, deliberately
shed without essentially clouding the
prospects of securing the Rigt Of
Suffrage to the Blacks. Defying the
madness Of passion and the blindness
of short>sighted misconception, it has
demanded Reconstruction on the
basis Of Universal Amnesty with I'm
partial Suffrage, in perfect conscious
ness of the fact that it thereby alien
ated thousands who had been its zeal
Gus supporters and life>long patrons
The hour Gifts complete vindicatior
cannot be far distant,
As for the man who is to be the
chosen standard>bearer of the Repub
lican host in the impending contest
while we avow our deliberate prefer,
ence of Chief Justice Chase as the
ablest and most eminent Of our liv-
ing statesmen, the Tribune will rem
der hearty, cheerful, determined
support to Gen. Grant, or Senator
Wade, or Speaker Colf.x, should he
be nominated and supported on plat
form which atfirms and upholds the
equal political as well as civil rights
of all citizens of the Republic. We
do not contemplate as possible the
support by Republicans Of any cam
didate who does not stand on this
platform. And we do not apprehend
that the candidates who, in our app
preaching struggle, shall represent
genuine Democracy in opposition to
the meanest phase of Aristocracy
can be beaten if proper means be sys>
tematically taken, as they must and
will be, to enlighten and arouse the
American people.
We will thank such friends as be.
lieve that the Tribune will prove an
efficient and cheap way to influence
the undecided, tie aid us in extending
its circulation. Though ours lis en-
inently political journal, but small
portion of its space is devoted to poll
itics, while an outlay of more than
5000, 900 per AMMAN is incurred IN
collecting ard transmitting news
from all parts of the world. We have
regular corresp ondents at nearly all
the capitals of Europe, with director
at London, who is authorized to dis
patch special correspondents to all
points where important events may
at any time be transpiring or immi>
ncnt The progress of the war in
Crete, which is the precursor ola still
greater war, has Deen watched by one
OF these special correspondents, while
another telegraphs from Constanti-'
nople each novel phase of the critical
diplomatic situation. Every step of
Garibaldi's recent heroic though un-
fortunate enterprise, from its incep-