New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-13
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1868.
PROSPECTUS.

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closed, we have now to decide whether the
fundamental idea which impelled and justliled
tbe Rebellion shall dominate over our whole
country, molding her institutions and shaping
her destiny. If it be true that God has NOT
created all men, but only all White men, III
His own image, and made them equal Ill poiiti-
cal and civil rights, then it is a World-"iuo
calamity that Grant did not surrender 10
Lee at AppOmattoX; and "The Lost cause,
trOdden into mire under the hOois OF ohell-
dams rOugh-riding cavalry not only shouid DuC
will be regained in Constitutional conventions
and at the ballot-boxes If the Black race, De-
cause they are Black should be excluded from
the jury-box and repealed from the ballot-boX,
then Stonewall Jackson ought to head the roll
of American martyrs, emblazOned high above
the names of Warren and Mercer and Pulaski ;
of Ellsworth, Lyon, Baker, Reynolds, Wads-
worth, Kearny, Sedgwick, and Mcpherson.
1t is difficult to argue with blind, besOtted
prejudice, grounded in ignorance and fortified
by elf-cOncet. Devoid of reason, it is hardly
amenable to reason. But millions who would
listen unmoved to appeals based on Justice and
Humanity 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 Rebel State
shaped and ruled by men who execrated Lin
coins reluctant and tardy resistance to the Re
belion as causeless and criminal aggres-
sion, and profoundly rejoiced over 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 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, Overwhelmingly Copper
head thencefOrth and evermOre. Allow to-day
the plea that the Blacks are ignorant and de-
graded, and those whom you thereby clothe
with power will take good care that the plea
shall be as valid and we'll grounded a century
hence as it now is. Public Education and Civil
Rights for the Freedmen can only bic achieved
and maintained through the ballot. 1--WE are
" for Negro Suffrage-the ardy they suffered an
" Ne,C- Orleans" was the inscription on a ban
ner borne in a late Conservative or Demo
cratic 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 avenee by
outrage and infection what it deems negro
treachery to the Southern cause.
The TRIBUNE has declined to be lured or
turned aside frem the Main Question. 1t has
persistently refused to sweA the clamor for
vengeance on the defeated Rebels, whether by
h. nd of 70
strong reasons for this course is conviction
that no drop of Rebel blood could be coolly,
shed without essentially clouding
the prospect of securing the Right of Suffrage
to the Blacks. Defyipg the madness Of passion
and the blindness of short-sighted miscOncep
ton, it has demanded Reconstruction on the
basis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial
Suffrage, in perfect consciousness Of the fact
that it thereby alienated thousands who had
been its Jealous supporters and lifelong pat
rons. The hour of its complete vindieatiOn
cannot be far distant.
AS for the man who, is to be chosen the
standard bearer of the Republican host in the
impending contest, while we ayow our deliber-
ate preference of Chief Justice Chase as the
ablest and most eminent of our living states
men, The TRIBUNE will render hearty,
cheerful, determined support to Gen. Grant,
or Senator Wade, or Speaker Colfax, should he
be nominated and supported on platform
which affirms and upholds the equal political
as well as civil rights of all citizens of the Re
public. We do not contemplate as possible the
support by Republicans of any candidate who
does not stand on this platform. And we do
not apprehend that the candidates who, in our
Il, .1nI
Democracy in opposition to the meanest phase
of AristOcracy can be beaten if proper means
be Systematically taken, as they must and will
be, to enlghten and arouse the American
people.
We will thank such friends as believe that
THE TRIBUNE will prove an efficient and
cheap way to influence the undecided, to
aid us in extending its circulation. Though
ours is eminently a political Journal but
small portion of its space is devoted to
politics, while an outlay Of more than 100000
per annum is incurred in collecting and trans
hitting news from all parts of the world. We
have regular correspondents at nearly all the
capitals of Europe, with director at 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 a still greater war, has been
watched by one of these special correspondents,
while another tclegraphs from COnstaDtinople
each novel phase of the critical diplomatic
situation. Every step of Garibaldi's recent
heroic though, unfortunate enterprise, from its
inception to its close, was noted by our
correspondents, who are also his most
trusted advisers while an esteemed member
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