Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-21
The Tribune for 1868.
PROSPECTUS.

The year 1865 will long be remembered for its settle
ment of the boundary question between Ars;ocracy of
COicr and Impartial Human Liberty. The War of the
Rebellion beins closed. We have now to decide whether
the fundamental idea which impelled and justified the
rebellion shall dominate whole country. mold
in her institutions and shaping her destiny. If it be
that God has not created Gll men, but only all White
men, i'll Ills own image, and made them equal in polit
cal and civil rights, then II Is Wofdwide calamity that
Grant did not surrender to Lee at AppomatloX; and
The Lost Cause. trodden into niire the hoos
Sheridan rOughridnS cavalry not only should but will
be regained in Constitutional Conventions and the
baoi-boxcs If the Black race, because they are Black
should be excluded from the and repelcd from
the baliotbox, then StonewA jackson ought to head
the roll of American martyrs, emblazoned high above
the names Warren and Mercer and Pulaski of Ellis
WORTH Lyon, Baker, reynolds, HaasNOrth hearry,
Sei.w:ck and Mcpherson.
Il Is difficult to argue with blind besotted prejudice
grounded ignorance and fortified seifcOncct. De-
void of reason, il is h9rply amenable to But
millions who would listen unuoyed 10 appeals based on
Justice and Humanity be stirred by facts which
feet ihcr tntereI and safety The naked truth that
every Southern State reconstructed the White basis
il to-day Rebel State-shaped and ruled by who
execated LncOlns reluctant and tary resistance to s
Rebellion causelcss and criminal aggression, and
profoundly rejoccd over Bull Run their victOrywil
prove invincDlc five can but bring it home the ap
prehension of every loyal There is paramount
question Of good faith or gratitude 10 the Blacks. Their
necessary TO the prcpOnderance of White
loyalty their protection and security Recon-
sruct the South the White basis, and every of
fifteen States which held slaves in 1869 will be in
tensely, overwhelmingly Copperiead thenceiorth and
Allow to-day the plea that the Blacks g
and deao ed and those WHOM You thereby clothe
with power Will take good care at the plea shall be
valid wGli-5rOulllCu century hence II
Public Education and Civil Rights for the Freedmen
only be achieved and maintained through the ballot
We are for Negro Sutrae-the wsy they suffered in
New Orleans was the inscription on banner borne in
large Conservative or Democratic procession in Balti
more and the spirit which dictated that avowal is still
rampant in the South But for what is stigmatzed
Military Dcspotism, it would daily avengc by outrage
and inficton what it deems negro trcachery to The
The TmBUEE has declined to be lurcd turned aside
from the Main Question. 1t has persisrntly refused to
swell the clamor vengeance the defeated Rebels
whether by execution or cOnnScatlon: ana OF
strong reasons for this course is conviction that
drop OF Rebel blood could be coOly, deliberately shed
without essentially cOudn the prospect of securing
Right Of Suffrage to the Blacks Defng the madness of
passion and the blindness of shorSighted niscoccp-
lion it has demanded Reconstruction the basis of
Universal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage in perfect
consciousness of the fact that thereby aienated tbous
ands VINO had been its Jealous supporters and lifelong
patrons. The hour off complete yindicatOn cannot
be far distant.
or of the Republican host in the impending contest,
while weavow our deliberate preference Of Chief Justice
Chase the abcst and mos eminent of our living
stlttsmcn. TIE TRIBUNE will render hearty, cheerful
determined support Gen. Gsaut, Senator Wade.
Speaker CulfaX should he be noninaed and supported
GA = platform which airRs and up.I0lda the equal po
ica Is well civil rights OF all citizens OF the 1cpubic,
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pubcans Of any candidate who does not stand on this
platform. And we do not apprehend that the candidates
who, in approaching struggle shall represent genu
Democracy in opposition 10 the nearest phase of
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arouse the American people.
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