Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-02-10
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THE
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
TOD 1000.

a. itulh The last eight years .opr country
60 has trumphantiy passed through the
sraVest and most trying peri Is which have con
lronted. her, since her Independence was ac-
knoWledged. She has vindicsted beyond appeal
her right to be regarded as DO mere confederacy
or league Of Jealous. envious, discordau Sta tes
but as substantially and permanently Nation
wherein the pretensions of no part can be ID
United or upheld IN opposition to the integrity,
the paramount authorityS of the One Repu Bile
The right Of each man, by virtue of his birth
or his naturalization citizen of the United
States, to the full enjoyment of Site. liberty
and the pursuit of nappiness,p until he shall
forfeit the right by crime, is also established on
lmpregnab!e foundations. Our fathers pro
cialmed ltin iustifying their separatien from
Great Britain it was leftto rs to ssabIish as
y TACT what they merely affirmed as principle.
nat the cannon of Saratoga and Yorktown
proclaimed as an ebstIaction, the cannon of
Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Five Forks estab-
IiShed as living, embodiea, enacted truth.
Widely as our flag now floats, still more widely
RS 1t may float hereafter, here is, there can
henceforth be- no legal master, no fettered slave.
wrongs and abuses, servility and oppression,
may still exist; but the Federal Constitution is
no .onger their shield, and the folds of our flag
no longer emblazon nor seek to conceal a lie.
The humblest American, so long as he violates
no law :, is II aster Of his own limbs and the sole
owner of all he can honestly earn.
vi these immense resu It's, the Importance ind
every added year. Dist.ncel is required to en-
able us to-measure and appreciate the magnitude
of the pyramid OF Four Millions Of shackles,
stricken from the SCARED limbs OF our country
men, which form the enduring monument of
our struggle and our triumph. New arts, new
industries, new developments of ma ural wealth,
toolong UNDECIDED and unvalued, will year by
year stan d ferth IN attestatcn that nene OF us
has yet adequately realized the magnitude and
the benignity of our National victory.
AT leughth the smoke rises from the hard
won field showing that the last intrenchment
has been carried. The election of GRANT and
CoLFAX gives assurance that the storm is over
that the Bow of Promise arches. the sky.
There are still obstacles to surmount, peris to
avert, noble ends to be achieved ; but tho ship
Of State has ridden out the tenn pest and has her
haven full in view. The seven States recon
structed under the recent acts OF Congress will
stand and will be followed by the three that
have hitherto stood aloof; the rights of the
Freedmen will be upheld and respected and
Impartial Suffrage throughout the land will
soon plant them on foundations that cannot be
shaken. -.s
THE TRIBUNE will contend, in the future as in
the past, for Universal Amnesty as well as for
Impartial Suffrage. il has no faith in ven
geance, in prescription, In confscation, nor in
the shedding of blood otherwise than in actual
and necessary war. ''There is time for War
and time for Peace y and the latter follows
swiftly on the heels of the former. Whenever
those who fought against the Union shall have
in good faith given up the contest, they are no
longer our foes but our countrymen.
In the joyful trust that Grants election has
given the death-blow to Ku-Klux-Klans, and
all manner of outrages on Unionists and Freed
men as such, and that Impartial rffiage will no
longer be seriously resisted, we hope to see the
next four years stigmatzed by an unprecedented
expansion of the National Industry and a con-
sequent increase of the National wealth. We
hope to see new cabins dot the prairie, new
clearings ohequer the forest, new mills, fatto-
ries, furnaces erected, North, South East and
West, until our annual preduct shall be Hun
dreds of Millions greater than at present, while
Mines of Iron and of Coal, of Gold, Silver,
Copper, &C., shall be opened and worked, with
anenergy and to an extent that defies precedent.
Believing that the systematic, efficient protec-
tion of Home Industry is the corner-sto Of a
wise, benignant National Policy, and that it is
essential to the rapid development of our latent
resources, to the prosperity of our country, the
maintenance of her Credit, and the honest pay
ment of her Debt, we shall give it our mosl
earnest and active support.