Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-02-26
The Tribune for 1868
pROSPECTTJa


The year 1868 viii long be remembered for
it's settlement of the boundary question be-
tween Aristocraey of Color and Impartial Hu-
man Liberty The War of the Rebellion being
closed, we have now 20 decide Whether the
fundamental idea which irHpelled and justified
the Rebellion sh all dotainate over our whole
country, moldng her instit utious and shaping
her destiny. If it be true that Go has ne6
created all men, but only oil W hi tie men, ia
His own image, and made them eqaal in politi-
cal and civil rights, then it is world wide
calamity that Grant did not surrender to Lee
ut Appomattoxi and e The Lost Cause, ]" frod-
cen into mire under the hoo fs of SherIdaB's
rough riding cavalry, not only should buf
will be regained in Constitutional Conventions
and at the ballot boxes. If the Black race, be-
cause they are Black, should be excluded from
the Jury box and repealed from the ballot box,
then Stonewail Jackson ovght to head the roll
OF American martyrs, emblazoned high aboves
the names of Warren and Mercer and Palaski;
of Ellsworth, Lyon, Baker, Reynolds, Wads-
worth, kearny Sedgwick and MCPHERSON.
1t IS dlfhcult to argue with blind. besotted
prejudice. grounded in ignorance and fortified
oy self-conceit Devoid of reassn 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 aud 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
VIII I0luStaHb ana lafuy resi- stance To the ne
beilion as a causeless and criminal aggres ion,
and profoundly rejoicad over Bull Run as their
vlctory-will prove invncible, if we can but
bring home to the apprehension of every
loyal voter. There is no paramount question
of good faith or gratitude to the Blucks Their
votes are as necessary to the preponderance Of
White loyalty as to their own protection and
security. Reconstruct the South on the w hta
basis, an d every one of the fifteen States which
held slaves in 1860 VIII be intensely over
whelmngly Copperhead thenceforth and ever
more. Allow 10 day the plea that the Blacks
are ignorant and degraded, and those whom
you thereby clcthe with power will take good
care that the plea shall be as valid and we'll
grounded century hence asit now u.s.. PUBLIC
Education and Civil Rights for the Freedmen
Can only be achieved and maintained through
the ballot. s. We are for Negro Suffrage shS
qoasfhey suffered IN NeO Orleans" was the in
scription on banner borne in late Conserw
ative or Democratic profession in Baltimore;
and the spirit which dictated that avowal il
still rampant in the South. But for what il
stigmatized as Military Despotism, it would
daily avenge by outrage and iniic ton what it
deems negro treachery to the Southern cause.
The TRIBUNE has declined to be lured or
turned aside from the Main Question. 1t has
persistently refused to swell the clamor for
vengen on the defeated Rebels, whethsr by
execution or by confscation; and one of it's
strong reasons for this course is conviction
that no drop of Rebel blood could DO cooIlv
deliberately she'd without essentially clouding
the prospect of securing the right of Suffrage
to the Blacks. Defying the madnes of passion
and tho blindness of short sighted misconcop-
ton, it has demanded Reconstruction on the
basis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial
Suffrage, in perfect consciousness of the fsos
that it thereby alIenated thousands who had
been its xealous supporters and life long pat
rons. The hour of it's complete Yindicatsn
cannot be far distant.
As for the who is to be tho chosen
standard bearer Of the Ram hot h.
impending contest, while we ayow our dolihar-
ate preference of Chief Justice Chase as the
abest and most eminent of our living statesmen,
The tribune will render q hearty cheerful de-
t. rmined support to Gen. Grant, or Senator
Wade, or Speaker Colfax, should ho be nomiu-
ated and supported on platform which xrtirlns
and upholds the equal political as we'll ~ civil
rights oil all citizens OF the Republic. We do
net contemplate as possible the support by Re-
publlcans OF any candidates who does not stand
on this platform And We do not apprehcnd
that the candidates who, in approaching
struggle, shall represent genuine Democracy in
opposition to the meanest phase of Aristocrasy
can DC beaten II proper means be systematically
taken, as they must and will DO, to enlixhten
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 ia
extending its circulation. Though ours is emin-
emily political journal, but u small portion Of
Its space is devoted to politics, while outly OF
more than SZOo,oOO per annum is incurred in
collecting and transmitting news from all parts
OF the world. We have regular correspondents
at nearly all the capitals OF Europe with di-
rector at London, who is authorized to di spateh
special correspondents to all poinss where i'm
portant events may al any time be ira Inspiring
or imminent The progress ofthe war in Crete,
which is the precursor OF still greater war haa
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dent while another telegraphs from CONSTANT
nople each moved phase OF lie critical diploma
tic situation Every step of Gariba ldi's recent
hcroie though unfortunate enterprise, fro its
Inception to It's close, was noted by cores
pondents, who also his most trusted advisers;
while an esteemed member OF oyr editorial staff
has just acccmpJ MED the ambassador OF JuareE
to Mexico to scan the Mexican problem closely
and under auspices more favorable to the Re-
publican chlet tina thosewhlc have color ed
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Vera Crnz and the Crpital. Another cor
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ton to Alaska. Walrussia, or whatever our
splinter of the North Pole may be called, and
Ii now reporting on the aspects and capabilities
OF that chilly region. Bayard Taylor is writing
us IN his own vein from Central Europe; while
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