Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-07
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PROSPECTUS.

PROSPECTUS.
The year ls6S Will long be remembered settlement
OF the boundary question between Ais,ocracy Of Color
and Human Liberty. The War of the Rebellion
being closed, we have to decide whether the funda
mental idea which impeed md justified the Rebellion
shall dominate over our whole juny mo!dng her msti
tutions and shaping her destiny II be that God has
NOT created all men, but only all White men, HIS
image, and made them equal Ia political and civil rights,
then 1t is worldwide calamity that did surep
der to Lee at AppomatoI and "rhe Lost Cause /" rod
don into mre under the hoofs of SheIdans rous rng
cavalry, only should but win be ieguned m Consttu.
tonal Conventions and at the bsotbOxes II the Black
race because they ARE Black should be excluded from the
lury-boI and repelled from the ballot box then Sewa
Jackson ought to head the roll of American martyrs,
6azoned high atove the names Of Warren and Mercer and
Pulaski OF Ellsworth Lyon, Baker, Reynvds, Wada-
worth, kearny, Sedg wick, and Mcpherson
II Is dicult to argue with blind, besotted prejudice,
grounded IN ignorance and fortified by seCuncet. Devoid
oi reason, II 10 hardly smenabc to But mlluus
who would listen unmoved to appeals lased on Justice
and Humanity can be stirred by incts winch affect their
own Interest and safety The naked truth that
Southern State reconstructed the White basis is to-day
Rebel State-shaped and ruled By who eXecrated
Lncon's reluctant and tardy resistance TO the Rebellion
US causeiess and criminal aggression and profoundly
olced over Bull Run their victoIyw prove nvinci.
hle, we can but bring it home to the apprehension Of
good faith OF gratitude to the Blacks Their
necessary to the prepondeIance OF White atty lheI
own protection and security Reconstruct the South
the whit. basis and every Of the fifteen States which
held slaves in 1850 will be intensely, overwhelmingly
Copperhead thsnceforth aud evemore. Allow to-day the
plea thn the Blacks are gnoTan and drgraGed, aud those
whom you thereby cothe with power viii good
that the plea shall be valid and well grounded century
hence as II now is. Public Education and Civil Rights
Tor the Freedmen only he achieved and maintained
through the ballot 1--WE for Negro Suffrage the
"way they sue ed in New was the inscrptiOn
on banner borne IN late Conservative Democratic
procession IN BaInoie and the split which dictated
that ayowal still rampant IN the south. Blu, for what
Is stignatized as Military Despotism it would daily
avenge by Outrage and infection whit i, deems negro
treachery to the Southern cause.
The TRIBUNE has declined to he !I cd turned asde
from the Main Question. 1t has perssently refused to
swell the camor for vengeance on the defeated Rebels
whether by execution or by conhscation and of its
slOg reasons Tor this couse conviction that no drop
OF Rebel blood could be cooly, deliberately shed without
essentially coudng the prospect of securing the Right Of
Suffrage to the Blacks Deiyng the madness Of passion
and the blindness Of shortsighed msconcepiion ii has
demanded Reconstruction the basis of Unve sal Am
nes'y WIN Impartial Suffrage IN perfect consciousness of
the fact that II thereby aenaed thousands who had been
It's Jealous supporters and life long patrons The hour
OF its complete vindlcation cannot be iar ds,an,
As for the man who to be the chosen standard bearer
OF the Republican host in the impending contest while we
avow our deliberate preference OF Chief Justice Chase
the ablest and most eminent of our living statesmen The
TRIBUNE VIII render a hearty, cheerful determined sup
port 70 Gen. Grant, Senator Wade Speaker Colfax
should he be nominated and supported platform which
afrms and upholds the equal political well civil
rights of all citizens Of the Republic. We do not con.
template as possible the support by Republicans OF my
candidate who does not stand on this pat orm And we
do not appehend that the candidates who approach
ing struggle shall represent genuine Democracy oppob
ton TO the meanes phase of Arstocracy be beaten il
proper means be systematically taken, they must and
Will be, to enighten and the American people.
We will thank such friends believe that rnE TRIBuNE
VIII prove all eihclent ana cheap To influence the
undecided, to aid us in extending he circulation Though
ours Is elnnenty political Journal but small portion
Of its space isdevoted to politics. while outlay
tnan ssOooOO per annum Is incurred IN collecting and
transmitting news from all parts OF the world We have
regular correspondents at nearly all the capitals Of Europe
with director ut London, who is authorized dispatch
neutrality-suspicious. to all points important events
may any tine be trsnspirng OF imminent The progress
has been watched by these special correspond
cns, while another teegRphs from Constantnople each
novel phase o the critical diplomatic situation. Every
fhnu0h M
erprise, from its inception to its close noted by
correspondents who also his most trusted advisers
While an esteemed member Of editorial staff has
accompanied the Embassado Of Juarez Mexico
the Mexican problem closely and under auspices more
coored the sdvlces q our regular at Vera
Cruz and the Capital Another correspondent accompanied
the hrst National expedition to Alaska, Waussia, OF
whatever our spntes Of the North Pole may he called
and now reporting on the aspects aud capabilities OF that
chilly region. Bayard Taylor is writing us in his own
port to us from Colorado, ldaho Montana, &c, more
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Of Books and Literary Department in charge OF one of
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