Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-12-04
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1868.
PROSPECTUS.


The year 1868 will long be remembered
for its settlement Of the boundary question
between Aristocracy OF Color and Impair
tial Human Liberty. The War Of the
Rebellion being closed, we have now to
decide whether the fundamental idea
which impel.ed aud justified the REBEL
ion shall dominate over our whole coun-
try, molding her 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 ther
equal in political and civil rights, then it
is world wide calamity that Grant did
not surrender to Lee a, Appomatox and
and The Lost Cause" trodden into mi:c
under the hoo!s Of Sheridan 5 rough-riding
cavalry, not only should but will be re-
gained in Constitutional Conventions and
at the ballot-5oxes If the Black race.
because they arc Black, should be exclul
ed from the jurybox and replied from the
ballot-box, then Stoncwall jackson oagh;
to head the roll Of American martyrs,
cmblazoned high above the names of War
ren and Mercer and Pulaski; of Ellsworth,
Lyon, Baker, Reynolds, Wadsworth
Kearuey, Sedgwick and Mcpherson.
1t is difficult to argue with blind, be-
sctted prejudice, grounded in Ignorance
and fortified By self conceit. Devoid Of
reason, it is hardly amenable to reason
But millions who would listen unuoved to
appeals based on Justice and Humanity
can be stirred By facts which affect THEN
own interest and safety. The naked
truth that every Southern State recon
s;ructed on the White basis is to-day q
Rebel State-shaped and ruled BY men
who e1ccrated Lincoln's reluctant and
tard Y resistance 70 the Rebellion as q
causeless aud criminal aggression, and
Profound y rejoieed over Bull Run as their
vietory-will prove inyincible, if We can
but bring it home to the apprehens sion OF
every legal voter. There is no paramount
question of good faith or gratitude to the
Blacks. Their votes are as necessary to
the prepouderauce of White loyalty as to
their own protection and security. Re
construct the South on The White basis.
aud every one Of the fifteen States which
held Slaves in 1860 viii be intensely,
overwhelmingly Coppeihcad thcnceforth
and evermore. Allow to-day the plea
that the Blacks are ignorant and degraded
and those whom you thereby c!othc with
power will take good care that the plea
shall be a. valid and well-grounded CEN
tury hence as 1t now is. Public Edpca-
tion and Civil Rights for the Freedmen
can only be achieved aud maintained
through the ballot. "We are for Negro
Suffrage-tte rag thcy suffered IN Nclc
Orleans, Was the inscription on a ban
ner borne in a late Conservative or Dem
ocratic procession in Baltimore and the
spirit which dictated that ayowal it still
rampant in the South. But for what is
stigmatizad as Military Despotism it would
daily svenge BY outrage and inhic.ion
what 1T deems negro treachery to the
Southern cause.
The Tribune has declined to be lured
or turned aside from the Main Question |,
mas persistently refused to swell the clam
or for vengeance on the defeated Rebels,
whether by execution or by coniiscation
aud one of its strong reasons for this
course is conviction that no drop Of Reb-
ell blood could be coo!ly, deliberately shed
without essentially clouding the prospect
of securing the Right of Suffrage to the
Blacks. Defying the madness of passion
''N 'hO U4iIouCSS Vi SGUl t-SiSHtCu Hiss
conception it has demanded Reconstruc-
ton on the basis of Universal Amnesty
with Impartial Suffrage, and in perfect
consciousness of the fact that it thereby
alienated thousands who had been its
Jealous supporters and lifelong patrons.
The hour of its complete vindication can
not be far distant.
As for the man who is to be the chosen
standard-bearer of the Republican host in
the impending contest, while we avow our
deliberate preference of Chief Justice
Chase as the ablest and most eminent OF
our living statesmen, The TriJaac will
render hearty, cheerful, determined sup
port to Gen. Grant, or Senator Wade, or
Speaker Colfax, should he be nomiuated
and supported on Platform which afirms