The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-12-24
THE
THE
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
For 1899.
For 1850.

Within the last eight years our country has
trlumphantly passed through the gravest and
most trying peTils which have confronted her
since her Independence was acknowledged. She
has vlndicated beyond appeal her right to he re-
garded MS no mere eonfederaey or league of jeal-
ous, envious, discordant States. but as subslan-
TALLY and permanently Nation, wherein the
pretensons of no part can be admitted or up
held In opposition to the integrity, the para
mount authority of the One Republic.
The right Of each man, by virtue Of his birth
or his naturalization as citizen Of the United
States 10 the full endowment of life, liberty,
aud the pursuit of happiness" " until he shall
forfeit the right by crime is also established on
| impregnable foundations. Our fathers proclaim
ed 1t in justifying tAeir separation from Great
Britain I; it was left To us TO establish as fact
what they merely affirmed as a principle. What
the cannon OF Saratoga and York town proclaim
ed as an abstraction, the cannon Of Gettysburg
Vicksburg and Five Forks established as liY-
| ing, embodied, enacted truth. Widely as our
nag now floats, still more widely as II may float
hereafter there is, there can henceforth be, no
| legal master, no fetlered slave. Wrongs and
abuses, servility and oppression, may still exist
| but the Federal Constitution is no longer their
shield, and the folds of our flag no longer em-
| blazon nor seek to conceal lie. The humbest
/ American, so long as he violates no law. Is mas
ter Of his own limbs and the sole owner of all he
eau honestly earn
OF these immense results the importance and
the benefcence win become more palpable with
every added year. Distance Is required to enable
us to measure and appreciate the magnitude OF
the pyramid Of -Four Millions of snackles, strick-
| en- from the SCARED limbs of our countrymen.
which form the enduring monument Of our strug-
gle aud our triumph. New arts, new industries,
new developments of our natural weallh, too
! long unheeded and unvaued, will year by year
stand forth in attestatipn that none of us has
/ vat r. daou lized mn uda nd
benignity of our National victory.
No great good Is ever achieved without effort
or without cost. -Four wears of patriotic strug.
gle and sacrifice, Half a Million of men slain In
battle or dylng OF the priYati0ns and exposures
OF War, Millions Of bereaved oues, Five Billions
Of properly dcstrOl ed and nearly Three Billions
OF Debt incurred. attest the magnitude Of the
contest and the unyieldiDg yalOr Of the combat
ants.
At length. the smoke rises from the hard-won
field, showing that the last intrenchment has
been carried. The election Of Grant aud CollaS
gives assurance that tile storm Is over--thal the
Bow OF Promise arches the sky. There are still
Obstacles to sUnnount, perlls to avert noble endi
TO be achieved but the ship OF State has ridder
out the tempest and has her haven full IN view
The seven States reconstructed under the recent
acts OF Congress will stand, aud viii be followed
bv the three that have hitherto stood alOof; the
rights OIL the Freedmen will be upheld aud re-
spectrd, aud Impartial Suffrage throughout the
and will suOn plant them on foundations tha
cannot be shaken.
The TRIBUNE will contend In the future as ii
the past, for Universal Amnesty as well as fol
Impartial Suffrage. ltllas no faith IN vengeance
in prescription, IN contscaIion, nor in the shed
ding OF blood Otherwise than In actual and nee
essuIy war. There il q time for War and
time for Peace aud the latter follows swifll,
4 ON the heels Of the former Whenever thos,
who fought against the Union shall have In guoC
faith given up the contest, they are no lunge
our tUeS but our country lmen.
In the JOYFUL trust that Grants election ha
given the death-blow to Ku-Kiux klans, aud al
manner Of outrages on UniOniSts aud Freedmen
~ such, and that Impartial Suffrage will no long
er seliously be resisted we hope 10 see the mex
four leals slgnalizcd by an unprecedented ex
pAnson of the National Industry and conse
quvnL increase vi the National wealth. chop
" see new cabins dot the prairie. new clearing
ehequer the forest new mills. iaGtUrits furnaces
erected, North Suu,h, East aud West, uutil uu
annual product shall be Hundreds OF Million
greater than ut present while Mines Of Irol
and of Coal, OF Gold, Silver, Copper, DE-, shal
be opened and worked, with an energy and 10 u
extent Ilal dehes precedent. Belieying that th
systematic, efficient Protection of Honle Iudus
try Is the cUrner-slune ot wise bsniSlllnt Ma
tlunal Policy, and that it is essential 10 the rap
perry vi our country, the maintenance ol hu
Credit, anu the honest pa, mtht OF her Debt, W
shall give IL our most earnest aud active support