Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-12-18
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1868.
PROSPECTUS

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The year 1865 will long je remen bered for its
settlement of the boundary question between
lstocracy of color and impart ial human liberty.
The War of the Rebellion being closed, we have
now to decide whether the fundamental iaea
which impel!ed and justified the Rebellion shall
dominate over our whole country. moulding her
institutions and shaping her destiny. IF it be
true that God has created all men, but only all
White men, in His own image, and made them
equal In political and civil rights, then it is q
world wide calamity that Grant did not surrender
TO Lee at Appomattox; 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 race. because they
are black, should be excluded from the juryb
and repeiled from the ballot-box, then Stonewall
jackson ought to head the roll of American mar
tyrs, emblazoned high above the names of War
ren and Mercer and Pulaski; of Ellsworth Lyon
Baker, Reynolds, " Wadsworth ,Kearney edgwick
and Mcpherson
1t is difficult to argue with blind. besotted
prejudice. grounded in Ignorance and fortified by
selfconceit. Devoid of reason 1T is hardly amen
able to reason. But millions WIN would listen
unm owed TO appeals based on Justice and Human
ity 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 today Rebel State-sha ped nd ruled by men
who execrated Lincoln s reluctant and tardy re-
sistance to the Rebellion as a causeess and Grim
inal aggression. and profoundly rejoiced Bull
Run as their victory-wili prove invincible il
IL appreheDSlOn
every loyal voter. There Is no paramount ques-
ton of good faith gratitude to the blacks Their
votes are as necessary to the preponderance of
white loyalty as TO their own protection and
rity. Reconstruct the South the white basis,
and every of the fifteen States which held
slaves In 1860 will be intensely, Overwhelmingly
Copperhead theuceforth and evermore Allow
to-day the plea that tie blacks are 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 century hence
as it now is. Public Educstion and Civil Rights
for the Freedmen can only be achieved and main
tanned through the ballot. I'VE are for Negro
3" Suffrage ttsy suffered en- Nesc Orleans"
was the inscription a banner borne in late
Conservative or Democratic procession in Balti-
moIe; and the spirit which dictated that avowaI
is still rampant in the South. But for what is
stigmatized as Military Despotism, it would daily
avenge by outrage and infection what it deems
negro treachery 70 the Southern cause.
The Tribune has declined to be lured or turned
aside from the main question. 1t has persiste ntly
refused tc swell the clamor 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 no drop of Rebel blood
could 10 ,ooiy, dolibcrasei y shed without essen
tally cIouding the prospect of securing the right
OF suffrage to the blacks. Defying the madness
OF passion and the blindness of short. sighted
misconception, it has demanded Reconstruction
on the basis Of Universal Amnesty with Impartial
outrage in perfect consciousness of the fact that
IL thereby alienaied thousands who had been its
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 Tribune will
render hearty, cheerful, determined support to
Gen. Grant. or Senator Wade or Sneaker toIfar
should he be nom mated and supported on a nl,t,
form which afirms and az holds the equal politi.
cal as well as civil rights of all citizens of the Re-
pubic. We do not contemplate possible the
support by Republicans of any candidate VINO
does not stand on this platform And we do not
that the candidates who in our an
preaching struggle, shall represent genuine De-
nocracy IN opposition to the meanest phase of
arlstocracy can be beaten if proper means be sys-
taken, they must and will be- to
snlIghten and arouse the American people
- We will thank such friends as believe that the
Ir,bn5le Will prove an efficient and cheap way to
influence the undecided. to aid us in extending it's
Though ours is eminently political
journal. but small portion of its space is devo
ted TO politics. while an outlay of more than $780,
1OO per annuE isincurred in collecting and trans
hitting news from all parts of the world We
have regular correspondents at nearly all the cap
tals of Europe with director at London who
is authorized to dispatch special correspondents
to all points where important events may at any
lime be transpiring or imminent. The progress
1f the war in Crete which is the precursor of n
Till greater war, has been watched by one Of
hese special correspondents. while another tele-
sraphs from Constantinople each novel phase Of
he critical diplomatic situation. Every step of
farIoaldl s recent heroic though unfortunate en-
erprise. from its inception to its close noted
y our correspondents. who are also his most
rusfed advisers; while an esteemed member of
ur editorial staff has just accompanied the En-
assaaor OF Juaiez to Mexico to scan the Mexican
robiem closely and under auspices more fayora-
lie to the Republican chief than those which
AVE coiored the advices of our regular correspon
Tents at era Cruz and the Capital Another
correspondent accompanied the first National ex
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pi1nter of the North Pole may be called. and is
low reporting on the aspects and capabilities of
hat chilly region. Bayard Taylor is writing US
n his own vein from Central Europe while able
correspondents report to us from Colorado Idaho.
dontana, &c more copiously than we can find
Dom to publish. Our revie VS. of books and lit
rary department are In charge of one of the ri
est American scholars; while agriculture under
competent editor, claims a leading place in our
Teekly and semi-weekly issues In short. we
ave ave 1or years spent large proportion of the in
ONE OF our business in efforts to render the Tn
""e better and better newspaper; and if we
ave not succeeded, the fault is not explained by
lack OF means or of efforts, whether on our own
art or on thato generous and discerning pub
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