The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-31
THE TRIBUNE,
The New York Tribune far 1874


mas trlumphantly passed through the
gravest and most trying perils which
nave confronted her since her Indepepd
chce vas acknowledged Size has vincii
caseu soeFond appeal her right to be re
ecIueo as no mere confederacy or league
OF Jealous, enviouS, discordant States, bu;
as substantially and permanently a Nation
wherein the pTetenslOns of no part can
De admitted or upheld Ia opposition to
the Integrity, the paramount authority,
of the One Republic -
Ihe right of each man, by virtue of
MS birth or his naturalization a. a citizen
OF the United States, to the full enjoy
ment OF = life. liberty, aud the pursuit OF
: happiness until he Shall forfeit the right
by crime, Is also established on impreg-
nabie foundations. Oar fathers pro
Claimed it in justifying their separation
from Great Britain; it was left to US to
establish as a fact what they merely at-
hrined as a principle What the cannon
OF Saratoga and Yorktown proclaimed as
an abstraction. the cannon OF Getty Sburg
Nlcksburg, and Eve Forks established as
living, EN- bodied enacted truth. Wrongs
and abuses, seTvlity and oppres sion, may
stlll exist: but the Federal Con ,tltutlon
Is no longer their shield and the folds OF
our Tag no longer enibiazon nor seek to
conceal lie The hunblest American.
SO long as he violates no law, is master
OF his own limbs and the sole owner of
all he can honestly earn.
OF these Immense results, the i'm por-
lance and the beneficenGe will become
more palpabie with every aided year.
Distance IS required TO enable us 10 mea-
sure and appreciate the magnitude of the
pyramid Of Four Millions of slackles,
stricken from the SCARED limbs of our,
countrymen, which form the enduring
monument Of our struggle and our tn
nmph. New arts, new industries. new
developments of natural wealth, TOO long
unheeded and unyalued viii year by year
stand forth III atteatatlon that Ione OF Us
has yet adequately realized the gnl-
sude and the bcnlsnlty OF our national
victory.
No great good is ever achieved without
ebert or without cost. IoHr years OF pa
trIotlc struggle and sacrifice, half mil
hon of men slain ii. battle or dying of the
prlvasions and exposures of War. nil
slons OF bereaved ones, FIVE billions of
property destroyed, and nearly three BIZ
lions OF Debt incurred, attest the ,lagni-
tude OF the contest and the unyielding
valor of the cembatants.
At length. the smoke rises from the
hard-won field, showing that the last in
srenchnent has been carried. The cleo
ton OF GRANT and CoLFAX gives assur-
ance that the storm l. lyer-tllat the bow
ct Promise arche, the sky. There are
sfli obstacles to surmount, perlis to avert
noble ends to be achieYel: bat the ship
OF State has ridden out the tempest aud
has her haven full in view the seven
States reconstructed under the recent acts
OF Congress will stand. aud viii be follow
ed by the three that have hitherto stood
ai0of; the rights of the Freedmen viii
be upheld and respected, aud Impartial
Suffrage throughout the land will soon
plant them on foundations that cannot be
shaken.
The Tribune will contend, in the future
as IN the past, for Universal Amnesty as
well as for Impartial Suffrage. 1t has no
faith In vengeance, IN prescription, IN
confscatlon. nor IN the shedding of blood
otherwise than IN actual and necessary
war There IS 4 time for war and
time for peace, and the latter follows
swiftly on the heels OF the former.
Whenever these who fought against the
Union shall have, in good faith given up
the contest, they are no longer our foes
but our cuuntrymen.
In the Joyful trust chat Grant election
has given the death blow 70 the * il ux
kians, aud all manner nj 0lltlagcs oa
Unionists and freedmen a. saoh, and fh.t
Impartial Suffrage viii no loager be SER
ousy resisted, We hope to see the next
years slgnailzej by an unprecedented ex
pansiOn of the National Industry anu
consequent increase Of the National
wealth. We hope TO see new caUlns dot
the prairie, new clearlugs chequer the
forrest, new mills, iac,ofies, furnaces,
erected, North, South, East and West,
until our annual product shall be Hun
drsds Of Millions greater than at present
while, Mines OF Iron and Of Coal. OF
Gold. Silver, Copper, etc, shall be opened
aud worked, with an energy aud TO an
extent that defies precedent. Believing
that the sy>le,natic, eihc,ent P.uJectlon
OF Home iuiu ,Ert' i; the ea, ner-stone 0.
a wise, bengrant Ma ional Pol :, an i
that 1t Is eSscn,.a 10 the rapid develop
ment OF our latent resources, to IN :
prosperity Of orr countfy, the maInte
lnce OF her Credit, and ne honest pay
ment of her De It, we shall give it our
III ls5 earnest aid active support.
TUE DAILY TRIBUNE.
has been 81 long known as the leading po-
lIticai newspaper OF the country, that its
special features need 10 elaborate descrIp-
fIau Ir cDnraJuS rho f,l!fpsr and most