Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-12-05
THE TRIBUNE for 1868.
PNOSPECTUs,

vi EA II lSbS VIII long De TememDere0 1Or
L its settlement OF the boundary question be-
man Liberty. The War Of the Rebellion being
closed we have now to decide whether the fun
dameiital idea which impeled and justified the
Rebellion shall dominate over our whole coun-
try, moldlng her institutions and shaping her
destiny. If 1t be true that God has not created
all men, but only all White men, in His own
Image and made them equal in political and
civil rights, then 1t is a worldwide calamity
that Grant did not surrender to Lee ut Apps-
mattox; and the Lost Cause trodden Into
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 jury-box and re-
PEELED from the ballot-box then Stonewall jack
son ought to head the roll OF American martyrs,
emblazoned high above the names of Warren
Baker Reynolds, Wadsworth Kearny, sedg
1t is difilcuit to argue with blind, besotted
prejudice, grounded in Ignorance and fortified
amenable to reason. But millions who would
listen unmoved to appeals based on Justice and
their own interest and safety. The naked truth
that every Southern state reconstructed on the
White basis is to-day n Rebel State-shaped and
ruled by men who cXccrate Lincon's reluctant
and tardy resistance to the Rebellion a cause
less and criminal aggression, and profoundly
rejoicei over Bull Run rs their victory-will
prove invincible, If we can but bring 1t home to
the apprehension of every loyal voter. There IL
mo %a t Baes Ter T an "r
to the preponderanee Of White loyalty as to their
own protection and security Reconstruct the
fifteen States which held slaves In 1860 will be
intensely, Overwhelmingly Copperhead thence
the Blacks are ignorant and degraded, md those
whom you thereby clothe with power viii take
good care that the plea shall be as valid and
well-grounded n century hence as it now is
Public Education and Civil Rights for the Freed
men can only & Se arnievea @ ana mainaained thro
"khey suffered in Ne,D Orleans" was the inscrip-
tion on a banner borne in late Conservative
spirit which dictated that avowal is still ram
pant in the South. But for what is stiRmatized
as Military Deipotism, 1t would daily avenge by
outrage and infliction what 1t deems negro
traachery To the Sout hern cause:
The TRIBUNE has declined to be lured or turn
ed aside from the Main Question II has per-
sistently refused to swell the clainor for venge-
ance ON the defeated Rebels, whether by execu-
reasons for this course Is conviction that no
drop of Rebel blood could be cooly, deliberately
Of securing the Right OF suffrage TO the Blacks.
Defyiiig the madness of passion and the bind
ness of sophisticated nisconception, It has de-
sal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage in perfect
consciousness of the fact that 1t thereby aliena-
ted thousands who had been its Jealous sup
porters and lifelong patrons The hour of its
complete vindcation cannot be far distant.
As for the man who is to be the chosen stand.
ard bearer of the Republican host in the i'm
pending 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 a hearty, cheerful, deter
mined support to Gen. Grant, or Senator Wade,
or Speakef Colfax, should he be nominated and
supported on platform which affirnis and up
holds the equal political as well as civil rights
of all citizens of the Republic. We do not con-
template 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 approaching struggle,
shall represent genuine Democracy In opposi-
tion to ihe meanest phase of Aristocracy can be
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