The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-01-14
eTHE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
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Within the last eight years our country
has triumphantly passed through the grav-
est and most trying perils which have
confronted her since her independence was
acknowledged. She has vindicated be-
yond repeal her rights to be regarded as
no mere confederacy or league of jealous,
envious, discordant States, but as substan-
tally and permanently Nation, Wherein
the pretensiOns of no part can be admitted
or upheld in opposition to the Integrity,
the paramount authority, Of the One Re-
public. III
The right Of each man, by virtue OF his
birth or his Naturalization as. citizen Of
the United Statess to the full enjoyment Of
.slife, liberty, and the pursuit of hsppi-
ness, !" until heshall forfeit the right by
crime, is also established on impregnable
foundations. Our fathers proclaimed it
in iustifying their separation from Great
Britain; il was left to US to r establish as a
fact what they merely affirmed as a princi-
pie. What the cannon of Saratoga and
Yorktown proclaimed as an abstraction,
the cannon of Gettysburg, Vickshurg, and
Five Forks established as a living, en-
bodied, enacted truth. Widely as our
flag now floats, still more widely as it
may float hereafter, there 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 longer their shield, and
the folds of our flag no longer emblazOn
nor seek to conceal q lie The humbIest
American, so long as he violates no law, is
master of his own limbs and the sole
owner3Of all he can honestly earn. }o5 gu1
81 r.
tance and the benehcence will become
more Balpableiwilh every added year.
Distance is required to enable US. to meas
ure and appreciate the magnitude Of the
pyramid of -Four Millions of shackles,
stricken frotn the Scared limbs Of our
countrymeu, which form the enduring
monument Of our Struggle and our tri-
umph. New arts, newipdustries, new de-
velOpments of natural wealth, too long
unheeded and unvalued, viii year by
year stand forth Manifestation that none of
us has yet adequately realized the magni-
tude and the benignity OF our National
victory. I@s |Hii@.1.j leHoi ~ 60
No great good is ever. achieved without
effort or without cost. -Four years of pa
triotic Struggle and sacrifice, Half Mil
lion of men slain in battle oTdying of the
privations and exposures of War, Millions
Of bereaved ones, Five. Billions of proper
ty destroyed and nearly Three Billions of
Debt incurred, attest the magnitude of the
contest and the unyieldlng valor Of the
com batants. EE a'r' GaS 1-eW b1e
At length, the smoke rises from the
hard-won field, showing that the last IN
Itrenehment has been carried. The cleo
ton 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, per4ls to avert, no
BILE ends to be achieved; but the ship OF
State has ridden out the tempest and has
her haven full in view. The seven States
reconstructed under the recent acts of Con-
/ gress 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.
! 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 con-
! fiscation, nor in the shedding Of blood 9TH
erwise than in actual and necessary war.
nThere is a time for War and time for
Peace;" and the latter follows swiftly on
the heels of the former. Whenever those
twho fought against the Union shall have
in good faith given up the contest, they
| are no longer our foes but our country
men.
In the joyful trust that Grants election
| has given the death blow to Ku Klux
Kians, and all manner of outrages on
Unionists and Freedmen as such, and
that Impartial Suffrage will no longer be
seriously resisted. we hope to see the next
four years signaHz6d by an unPreeedent-
ed expansion of the National Industry
and a consequent increase ofthe National
wealth. We hope to see new cabins dot
the prairie, new clearings chequer the for
Hest,- new mills, factories, furnaces erected,
North, South, East and West, until our
Iannual product shall be Hundreds of Mil
Elions greater than at present, while Mines
of Iron and of Coal, of Gold, Silver, Cop
per, &C., shall be opened and worked,
with an energy and to an extent that de
fes precedent. Believing that the system
attic, efficient Protection of Home Industry
is the. cornerstone of a wise, benignant
National Policy, and that tits essential to
the rapid development Of our latent re-
sources to the prosperity of our country,
1.-THE naintenance Of her Credit, and the
/ honest payment Of her debt, we shall give
! it our most earnest and active support.