Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-12-13
The Tribune for 1868.
PROSPECTUS.

have now TO decide whether the fundamental idea :
which impeled and justified the Rebellion shall
dominate over our whole country, molding her
institutions and shaping her destiny lift be'truc
that God has not created all men, but only all /
White men, in His own image and made them {
equal in political and civil rights, then 1t is
worldwide calamity that Grant did not surrender
TO Lee at Appomattox; and The Lost Cause"
trodden into mire under the hoofs Of Sheridan's
rough,riding cavalry not only should but will be
reeaned in Constitutional Conventions and AT
the balotboxes. II the Black race, because they
are Black, should be excluded from the jury-box
and repealed from the ballot-box, then Stonewall n
Jackson ought to head the roll Of American mar
tyrs, emblazoned high above the names OF Warren
and Mercer and Pulaski; Of Ellsworth, Lyon,
Baker, Reynolds, Wadswor,h, kearny, Sedgwick
and Mcpherson.
1t is difficult to argue with blind bcsotted
prejudice, grounded in ignorance and fortified by
selfccnceit Devoid of reason, it is hardly amen
able to reason. But millions who would listen
unmoved to appeals based on Justice and Human
ity can be stirred by facts which affects their
interests and safety. The naked truth that every
Southern State reconstructed on the White basis
is to-day Rebel Staie---shaped and ruled by men
who execrated Lincoln's reluctant and tardy re-
sstance to the Rebellion as causeless and Grim
inal aggression, and profoundly rejoiccd over
Bull Run their yietory-will prove inyineihle, |
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 protection and
security. Reconstruct the South on the White
basis. and every one of the fifteen States which
held slaves in 1860 will be intensely, oyerwhelm-
ingly Copperhead thenceforth and evermoIe Al
low to-day the plea that the Blacks are ignorant
and degraded, and those whom Iou thereby clofhe
with power will take good care that the plea shall
be as valid and well-grounded century hence as
it now is. Public Education and Civil Rights for
the Freedmen can only be achieved and main
tanned through the ballot. We ere for Negro
SufIrage-ths rag they suffered IN Neac Orleans"
was the inscription on banner borne in the late
Conservative or Democratic procession in Rali-
more; and the spirit which dictated that avowal
is still rampant in the South. But for what is
stigmatzed as Military Despotsm, il would daily
avenee by outrage and infection what It deems
negro treachery to the southern cause.
The TRIBUNE has declined TO be lured or
turned aside from the Main Question. 1t has per-
sistently refused to swell the clamor for vengeance
on the defeated Rebels, whether by execution or
by confscation; aud one of its strong reasons for
this course is a conviction that no drone of Rebel
blood could be cody and deliberately she'd with
out essentially elouding the prospect of securing
the right of suffrage TO the blacks. Defying the
madness of passion and the blindness Of short
sighted mis-conception it has demanded Recon
construction on the basis of Universal Amnesty
Win Impartial III pcltctt CONSCIOUSNESS
of the fact that it thereby alicniated thousands
who had been its jealous supporters and lifelong
patrons. The hour of its complete vindicatlon
cannot 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 ayow our deliberate preference
! of Chief Justice Chase as the ablest and most
I eminent of our living statesmen, The TRIBUNE
| will render hearty cheerful, determined support
| to Gen. Grant or Senator Wade, or Speaker Col
/ fax should he be nominated and supported on q
4 platform which afirms and upholds the equal po-
tical well civil rights of all citizens Of the
\ Republic. We do not contemplate al possible
/ the support by Republicans of any candidate who
does not stand on this platform. And we do not
I apprehcnd that the candidates who, in our ap
1 preaching struggle shall represent genuine De
mocracy in opposition to the meanest phase Of
Aristocracy can be beaten if proper means be sys
tematically taken, US they must and will be, tc
enlighten and arouse the American people
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