The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-01-21
The N. Y. Tribune for 1869.

vest and most trying perils which have
confronted her since her Independence
was acknowledged. She has vindicated
beyond appeal her right 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.
The right of each man, by virtue of his
birth or his naturalization as citizen OF
the United States, to the full enjoyment
of ''life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness" until he shall forfeit the right by
crime, is also established on impregnable
foundations. Our fathers proclaimed it in
iustifying their separation from Great
Britain it was left to us to establish as
fact what they merely affirmed as prin-
ciple. What the cannon of Saratoga and
Yorktown proclaimed as an abstraction,
the cannon Of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and
Five Forks established IS q living, en-
bodied, enacted truth. Widely as our
flag now floats, still more widely as it may
float hereafter, there is, there can hence
forth be, no legal master, no fettered slave.
Wrongs and abuses, servility and oppres-
sion, 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 lie The humblest
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 impor-
tancc and the benefcence will become
more palpable with every added year
Distance is required to enable US to meas
ure and appreciate the magnitude of the
pyramid Of four millions Of shacklcs,
stricken from the SCARED limbs Of our
countrymen, which form the enduring
monument of our struggle and our tri-
umPh. New arts, new industries, new
development OF natural wealth, too long
unheeded and unvalued, viii year by year
stand forth in attcstation that none Of us
has yet adequately realized the magnitude
and the benignity Of our National victory
No great good is ever achieved without
effort Or without cost. Four years of pa
triotic struggle and sacrifice, half million
of men slain in battle or dying of the pri-
vations and exposures of war, millions OF
| bereaved ones, five billions of property de-
| stroyed, and nearly three billions of debt
! incurred, attest the magnitude of the con-
test aud the unyielding valor Of the COM
batants
st length, the smoke rises from the
hard-won field, showing that the last in
trenchment has been carried The cleo
tion 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, perils to avert, no.
bic ends to be achieved but the ship Of
State has ruden out the tempest and has
her haven full in view The seven State:
reconstructed 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 SUI,
irage throughout the land will soon plant
them On foundations that cannot be sha-
ken.
The Tribune will contend, in the future
as in the past, for Universal Amnesty as
we'll as for Impartial Suffrage. 1t has nc
faith in vengeance, IN prescription, in con-
fScation, nor in the shedding of blood
otherwise than in actual and necessary
war. There is a time for War and time
for Peace :" and the latter follows swiftly
on the heels of the former Whenever
thosa who fought against the Union shall
have in good faith given up the contest
they are no longer our fees but our coun-
trymen.
In the joyful trust that Grants election
has given the death-blow to KuKlux
Klans, and all manner of outrages on I'm
ionists and Freedmen as such, and that
Impartial Suffrage will no longer be seri
ously resisted, we hope to see the next
four years signalized by an unprecedented
expansion of the National Industry and q
consequent increase ofthe National wealth
We hope to see new cabins dot the prairie
new clearings chequer the forest, new
mills factories, furnaces, erected, North
South, East and West, until our annual
product shall be hundreds of Millions
greater than at present, while mines OF
Iron and of Coal, of Gold, Silver, Copper,
&C., shall be opened and worked with an
energy and to an extent that defes prece-
dent. Believing that the systematic, eff
cient Protection of Home Industry is the
cornerstone Of 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 payment OF
her debt, we shall give it our most earnest
and active support
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
has been so long known as the leading po-
litical newspaper of the country, that its
special features need no elaborate descrip-
ton. 1t contains the fullest and most ac-
curate report of the proceedings in Con-
gress and the State Legislatures, careful
summaries of news from all quarters of the
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