Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-12-25
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1865.
PROSPECTUS.

The War of the Rebellion being closed. we have
now to decide whether the tundament ices
when lmpelled and justified the Rebellion shall
dominate over our whole country. moulding her
institutions and shaping her destiny. If II be /;
true that God has not crested all but only all
White men, in His own image, and made them
equal In political and civil rights, then il is 4
world wide calamity that Grant did not surrender
to Lee at Appomattoy; and 1.-The Lost Cause''
trodden into mire under the hoofs of Sheridan's
rough riding cavalry, not only should but will
be regained in Constitutional Conventions and at
the ballot boxes. If the black raeebecause they
are black. should be excluded from the Jury box
and repeiled from the ballot box, then StonewaiI'
jackson ought to head the roll of American N ar
tyrs, emblaZoned high above the names of War
ren and Mercer and Pulaski: of Ellsworth LYON,
Baker, Reynolds, ,Wadsworth, ,Kearney, Sed gwick,
and Mcpherson. .er -.-s- f ~
1t is difficult to argue with blind besottedS
prejudice, grounded in ignorance and fortified by
selfconceit Devoid of reason 1T is hardiy am en-
able to reason. But millions VIII, yeuld lister
unmoved TO appeals based on Justice and Human
lty can be stirred by facts which affect their ow
Interest and safety The naked truth that eyery
Southern State reconstructed on the White basis
IS today Rebel State-shaped and ruled by men
who execrated Lincoln's reluctant and tardy re-
sistance to the Rebellion a causeless and GRIM
mai aggression and profoundly rejoced er Bull;
Run as their victory-will prove. invincible, II .
we can but bring it home TO the apprehension of
every loyal voter. There is no param cunt aues-
ton OF good fait gratitude to the blacks Their
votes are as necessary to the Preponderance of
white loyalty TO their own protection and secu-
rity. Reconstruct the South on the white basis
and every one of the fifteen States which held
slaves in 1869 will be intensely, overwhelmingly
Copperhead thenceforth ana evermore.. Allow
to-day the plea that the blacks ignorant and
degraded, and those whom you thereby clothe
with power will take good care that the plea shall
be as valid and well grounded a century hence
as it row is. Public Education and Civil Rights
for the Freedmen can only be achieved and main
tanned through the ballot. I'VE are for Negro
= Suffrage-the pay tify sn fered M Ne1, Oykeans
q N n ar N Iata
Conservative or Democratic procession in Balti-
more; and the spirit which dictated that ayowaI
Is still rampant in the South. But for what is
stigmatiZed Military DespotisIn, it would daily
ayenge by outrage and inficton what it deems
negro treachery to the Southern eanse. H
The Tribune has declined to be luTed or turned
aside from the main question 1t has persistently
refused to swell the camor for vengeance on the
defeated Rebels, whether by execution or by con-
fscation; and one of its strong reasons for this
course is a conviction that drop of Rebel blood
could be cooiy, deliberately shed without essen-s
TALLY clouding the prospect of securing the right
of suffrage to the blacks Defying the madness
of passion and the blindness of sh ort t-sighted
mlsconception, 1t has demanded Reconstruct
on the basis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial
Suffrage, in perfect cOnsciousn of the fact that
II thereby alienated thousa nds who had been its
Jealous supporters 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
of Chief Justice Chase as the ablest and most
eminent of our living statesmen the TrtBntie will
render hearty, cheerful, determined support to
Gen- Grant. or Senator Wade or Speaker CoIfaxg
should he be nominated and supported on q Mat
form which atirms and urholds the equal politi-
cal as well civil rights of all citizens of the Re-
public We do not contemplate possible he
support by Republicans of any candidate who
does not stand on this platform. And we do not
apprehend that the candidates who in our ap-
preaching struggle, shall represent genuine De-
mocracy in opposition to the ineanest phase OF
aristocracy can be beaten if proper means be sys-
tematically taken, as they must 6nd will be, to
enlighten and arouse the American people. a.
We will thank such friends as believe that the
Tribune will prove an efficient and cheap way TO
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circulation. Though ours is eminently political
journal but small portion of its space is devo-
ted to politics, while outlay of more than S2O6-
600 per annum is incurred in collecting nd trans
mitting news from all parts of the world We
have regular correspondents at nearly all the cap
ltals OF Europe, with a director at London, who
is authorized to dispatch special correspondents
to all points where important events may at any
time be transporting or imminent. The progress
of the war in Crete. which is the precursor of q
still greater war, has been watched by one of
these special correspondents. while another tele-
graphs from ConstantinOple each novel phase of
the critical diplo lomatic situation. Every step of
Garibaldi's recent eroic tn ough unfortunate en-
terprise, from its inception to its close noted
by our correspondents. who also his most
trusted advisers; while an esteemed member of
our editorial staff has just accompanied the En-
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problem closely and under auspices more fsvora-'
bic TO the Republican chief than those which
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splinter of the North Pole may be called. and is
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