Smyrna times., 1868-12-23
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
FOR 1869.

the eight years country has trumphany
through the and most trying pers have
confronted her since her Independence acknowledged
vndcaed beyond appeal right be regarded as
cOnfederacy league of jealous envou dscoiant
States but substantially and permanently Nation where
the pretenSons of part or upheld In op
position to the integrity the authority
Republic.
The right of each by virtue of his birth his naura
zotiou citizen OF the United States full enjoyment
of life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness until he shall
forfeit the right by crime is also established impregrae
foundations Our fathers proclaimed in ustifying their sep
aatiOn from Great Britain; left establish as
fact what they merely affirmed principle What the can
of Saratoga and Yorktown proclaimed an abstraction
the of Gettysburg Ncksburg and Five Forks
ished rs living, embodied enacted truth. Widely
now floats still widely may hereafter. there is
there can henceforh be- legal feered slave
Wrongs and abuses servity and oppression still
but the Federal Constitution longer their shield. and the
folds of our flag no longer embazon nor seek to conceal lie
The humbles American long he violates
ter OF his limbs and the sole of all he honestly
OF these results the and the benecence
will become more papabe with added Distance is
measured enable and appreciate the astu
the pyramid of Four Millions shackles,
Scared limbs of our countrymen, which form the enduring
monument Of our struggle and triumph New
industries Developments of natural wealth too long
needed and unyaued will by year stand forth
On that of has vet adequately realized the magnitude
and the benignity of our National victory.
Four of patriotic struggle and sacrifice Half Million of
slain in battle dying of the prvaons and
War; Millions of bereaved Five Billions of property
troyed and nearly Three Billions OF Debt
magnitude of the contest the unvedng
batants.
At length the smoke rises from the hardwon field showing
that the last ntrenchment has
GRANT and CoLFAx gives that the
that tie Bow of Promise arches the sky There still
staces pers noble ends achieved
but the ship Of State hidden out the tempest and has her haven
full in view The States reconstructed
Congress will stand and will be followed
that have hitherto stood aoO the rights Of the
will be upheld and respected and Impartial through
the land will plant them foundations that
be shaken
THE TRIBUNE will contend in the future the past
Universal Amnesty well for Impartial Suffrage ha,
faith in in prescription in conscation
the shedding blood than actual
There is time for War and time for Peace
latter follows swiftly the heels of the Wheneve
those who fought against the Union shall have
given the they longer foes but
/ trymen.
In joyful that Grants election has given
blow to Ku KuX Kans and all of outrag Union
lists and Freedmen such and that Impartial Suffrage will
longer he seriously resisted hope year
gnaz"d by unprecedented expansion of the National In
dustry and consequent increase Of the National wealth W.
hope cabins dot tho prairie cea cheque
the mills factories furnaces erected North South
East and West until our annuaproduct shall be Hundreds
Mi lions than at while Mines Iron
Coal Of Gold Silver Copper &C. shall be opened worked
with and extent that defes prece
ing that the systematic efficient Protection of Home Indusr
is the Of a WISE bengnan National Policy
that essential the rapid development of
the prosperity of the maintenance
her Credit and the honest payment Of her Debt shall Civ
il our most earnest and active support.