The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-12-05
The Tribune for 1858.
PROSPECTUS.

PEELED and justified the Rebellion, shall
dominate over our whole country, moIding
her institutions and shaping her destiny.
If il be true that God has not created all
mel, but only all White men, in his Ow
image, and made them equal in political
and civil rights, then it is a worldwide
calamity that Grant did not surrender to
Lee at AppOmattOx and "'rhe Lost
Cause" trOdden into mire under the hoofs
of Sheridan's rough-riding cavalry, not
only should, but will be regained in Con-
stitutiOnal Conventions and at the ballot
boxes. Ifthe Black race, because they
are Black, should be excluded from the
jury-bOX and repelled from the ballOt-bOx,
then Stone wall Jackson ought to head the
roll of American martyrs, emblazOned
high above the names of Warren, Mercer
and Pulaski; Of Ellsworth, Lyon, Baker,
Reynolds, Wadsworth, Kearney, Sedgwick
and McPhersm.
1t is difficult to argue with blind, be-
sotted prejudice, grounded in ignorance
and fortified in self-conceit. Devoid of
reason, it is hardly amenabIe to reason.
But millions who would listen unmoved
to appeals based on Justice and Humani-
ty, can be stirred by facts which affect their
own interest and safety. The naked truth
that every Southern State reconstructed
on the White basis, is to-day a Rebel
State-shaped and ruled by men who exc
Grated Lincoln's reluctant and tardy re-
sistance to the Rebellion as a causeless
and criminal aggression, and rejOiced
over Bull Run as their victOry-will prove
invincibIe, il we can but bring it home to
the apprehension of every loyal voter
There is no paramount question Of good
faith or gratitude in the Blacks. Their
votes are as necessary to the prepOnder-
ance of White loyalty as to their own pro-
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 Cop
perhead thenceforth and evermore. AL
low to-day that the Blacks are ignorant
and degraded, and those whom you there
by clothe with power will take good care
that the plea shall be as valid and well
grounded a century hence as it now is.
Public Education and Civil Rights for the
Freedmen can only be achieved and main
tained through the ballot. ave are for
'Negro Suffrage-the way they suffered in
"New Orleans" was the inscription on
banner borne in a late Conservative, or
Democratic procession in Baltimore and
the spirit which dictated that avOwal is
still rampant in the South. But for what
is stigmatized as Military DespOtism, it
would daily avenge 10y outrage and inhic-
ton what it deems negro treachery to the
Southern cause.
The TRIBUNE has declined to be lured or
turned aside from the Main Question. It
has persistently refused to swell the clam
or for vengeance on the def ated Rebe S,
whether by execution or by coniscation (;
and one of it's strong reasons for this course
is a conviction that no drop Of Rebel blood
could be cold V, deliberately shed without
essentially clouding the prospect ofsecur-
ing the Right Of Suffrage to the
Blacks. Defying the madness of passion,
and the blindness of OfshOrt-sighted miscOn-
ceptiOn, it has demanded Reconstruction
on the basis of Universal Amnesty with
Impartial Suffrage, in perfect conscious
ness of the fact that it thereby alienated
thousands who had been its Jealous sup
porters and lifelong patrons. The hour
of its complete vindicatiOn 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 avOw our
deliberate preference for Chief Justice
Chase. s the ablest and most emin mt of our
living statesmen, THE TRIBUNE will render
"
Gen. Grant, or Senator Wade, or Speaker
Colfax, should he be nominated and sup
ported on a platform which affirms, and
uphods the equal political, as well as civ
il rights of all citizens of the Republic
We do not contemplate as possible the sup
port by Republicans, of any candidate
who does not stand on this platform. And
we do not apprehend that the candidates,
who, in our approaching struggle, shall
present genuine Democracy in opposition
to the meanest phase of AristOCracy, can
be beaten if proper means be systemati
Cally taken, as they must and will be, to
enlighten and arouse the Am riCan people.
We will thank such friends as believe
that the Tribune will prove an efficient
and cheap way to influence the undecid-
ed, to aid US in extending its circulation.
Though ours is eminently a political jour
nal, but a small portion of its space is de
voted to politics, while an outlay of more
than S20O,0 900 per annum is incurred in
collecting and transmitting news from all
parts of the world. We have regular cor
respondents at nearly all the capitals Of
Europe, with director in London, who
is authorized to dispatch special cores
pondents to all points where important
events may at any time be transpiring,
or imminent. The progress of the war in
Crete, which is the precursor of still
greater war, has been watched by one Of
these special CORES pOndents, while anOth-
er telegraphs from COnstantinOple each
novel phase of the critical diplomatic sit
uatiOn. Every step of Garibaldi's recent
heroic, though unfortunate enterprise,
from its inception to its close, was noted
bv our correspondents, who are also his
III II tF,.1
member of our editorial staff has just ac-
companied the ambassador of Juarez tn
scan the Mexican problem closely, and
under auspices more favorable to the Re
publican chief than those which have col
ored the advices of our regular correspond
ents at Vera Cruz and the capital. Anoth-
er correspondent accompanied the first
expedition to Alaska, WalrusSia, or what
ever our splinter of the North Pole may be
called, and is now reporting on the aspects
and capabilities of that chilly region
BaVard TAYLOR is writing US in his own
vein from Central Europe while able cor
respondents report to us from Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, &C., more cOpiUusly thar
we can find room to publish. Our Re-
views of Books and Literary Department
are in charge of one of the ripest Ameri-
can scholars while Agriculture, under a
competent editor, claims a leading place
in our Semi Weekly and Weekly issues:
in short, we have for years spent a
large proportion of the income of our busi-
ness in efforts to render the Tribune a
better and better newspapers and if we
have not succeeded, the fault is not ex-
planned by lack Of means or of efforts.
whether on our own part or on that of a
generous and discerning public.
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