American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-12-04
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1868.
PROSPECTUS.

for its settlement Of the buundry question
between Arstocracy of Color and Imperial
Human liberty. The War of the Reb5 Iion
being closed. we have now to decide wheter
the fun 'amental idea which Impelsd and
justified the Rebellion shall dominate over
our whole country, moulding hes institutions
and shaping her destiny. If it be true that
God has not created all men, but only all
White men in His own image, and made
them equal in political and clvilrights, then
it is a worldwide calamity that Grant did
not sure nder to Lee at Appomat ak; ana
:" he Lost Cause" trodden INTO ihire under
the hools of Sheridan 5 rouSh>fldng cavalry
not only should but will be regunet in Con-
sttutivnal Conventions and the ballot box.
If the Black race, because they are Black,
should be excluded from the Jury,box aud
re peled from the ballot-bOx then Stones
wall jackson ought to head the rol Of Amer
Ican martyrs, emblAzoned high ,boye the
names Of Warren aud Mercer and Pulaski:
OF Ellsworth, Lyon, Baker, Reynolds, Wads
wor,n, kcarny, Selswick and Md'hels0n. !
ltis difficult to argue WI h a blind, Desuttcd |
preIu iicci, grounded III ignorance aid for
t,iei by self cuuceit. Devoid Of Tel1n. it |
l, hardly amruublG H. reason. But Millions |
WIN wuu ii n,ten unmONcd 10 appeals .lsed
un Jusucc and humanity ctn be strrQ by |
acts when affect their uwu interest and ate, |
". he NAKED truth hat every SUutEen |
State reconstructed ON the hltc basts $50. |
daN Il krLe. st tie ped and rue by ma |
| wuu eAc,a'eu l. uuOtn reluctant aud tart |
| ILsIstluee 10 the Rebellion us Il causicsS an |
cr.m,nat aggression, aud pro, unliy reJpice.
| over Bud kuu as their ylctJty-Wll prove
lnyinctble, It we eau Uu bring il home t.
tue apprehaus ot eNry loyal voter There
| i, no paramount question Ut 10 d faith or
! gratitude to the Black. Their votes
! are as necessary t. the prepondcrancc oil
| White lOylry as to thuir own protection and
security Reconstruct the SOath on the
| " hIee basis and every one Of the fifteen
| States whlchh held slaves in 1860 will lie
intensely, Overwhelmingly Coppcrhead
theucefOIth ana cvermore. Allow to-day
the plea THAT the Blacks are ignorant aud
degraded, aud those whom you thereby
I clothe with power will take good care that
the plea shall be as valid and well grounded
u century hence as it now is. Public Edu-
cation and Civil Rights for the Freedmen can
only be achieved and maintlned through
the ballot. "W are for Negro Suffrage =
The pay dey suffered IL New Orieans," was
the inscription OF a banner borne in a late
Conservative or Democratic procession in
Baltimore and the spirit which dictated
that avowul is still rampant in the South. -
But for what is sugmatlzed as Military Des
potIsm, it would daily avenge by outrage
aud iniiiction what it deems negro treach-
cry to the Southern cause.
TIE TRIBUNE has decl.ed to be lured oI
turned aside from the Main Questiun II
has persistenty refused to swell the c!amol
tor vengeance ON the defeat of the Rebels
whteher by execution or by cOnhScation anG
one OF its strong reasons tor this course is 0
conviction that no drop OF Rebel blond cculu
De cody and deliberately shed without es.
eutally cloudlng the prospect of securing
the Right of Suffrage to the Blacks. DEFY.
ing the madness Of passion aud the blindnes
OF short-sigAted mlscoEeeption, it has de-
manded Reconstruction on the basis of Uni
versal Amnesty with Imperial Suffrage, il
perfect consciousness of the fact that i
thereby alienated thousands who had beer
its Jealous supporters and life-long patrons
The hour OF its complete yindication canno
be far distant.
As for the man who is to he chosen stan
dard-bearor Of the Republ lean host in tin
impending contest, while we avuw our delib
crate preference OF Chief Justice Chase n
the ablest and most eminent Of her livin!
statesmen, The TRIBUNE will render n hear
ty cheerful, determined support to Gen
Grant, or Senator Wade. or Speaker Cola,
should he be nominated and supported on
platform which allirms and upholds the eoua
political as we'll as civil right- OF all citizen
of the Republic. We do not contemplate a
possible the support by Republicans of an,
candidate who does not stand on this plat
form. And we do not appreheni that tn
candidate who, in our approaching struggle
shall represent genuine Democracy in oppo
sitiun to the meauest phase of Aristocrac,
can be beaten if proper means be system
atical taken as they must and will be, TO en-
tighten and arouse the Ameri IAN neople,
We thank such friends as believe that Tn
TRIBUNE will prove an efficient and chea,
way TO inf uence the undecl led, to aid us il
extending its circulation, Though ours i
,,minently political journal, but a smal
mort, IA of its space is devoted 10 politics
,rhiin A., outlay of more than $4,000. pc
.pnun, is in, 'urred in collecting and trans
mittinv news fr,,m all parts OF the world
we have regular eoh.F oh.Fespondents at nearl,
all the capitals OF EaropI. Wit! director a
London who is Authorised to dispatch spe
cial rrespondent' to all points where im'
portant events may ct any time be traI.Splr
ing OF imminent
The or ,gress of the war in Crete. whicl
is the precursor of a still greater war, ha
been watched by one Of these special cor.
respondents. while another tele graphs from
Constantinople each novel phase of the crit
ical diplomatic situation. Every step o
Garibaldi's recent heroic though unfOrtu
nate enterprise. from its inception to it
close, was noted by our correspondents, VIII,
are his most trusted adviser; while an es.
tsemed member ofour ed torial s.aff has Jus
accompanied the Enbassador of Juarez t
Mexico TO t. scan the Mexican problem elose
ly and under auspicious more favorable tt
the Republican chief than those which hay