The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-12-29

NO. "a.
TIM Savv YORK TRIBusH. 1s71.
Through struggle and suffering, At
the cost Of multiform agonies, .bereave-
meuts, devaatations, the American idea
embodied in the preamble to our faith
ers' Declaration Of Independence ap
proaches its complete realization. The
noble, inspiring assertion that Gall men
are created equal" and endowed by
their Creator with ina]iensble right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happi.
ness, is no longer glittering generality,
a poets fancy, philosophers specula-
ton, but the recognized base of our po-
litical fabric. The bcnign Revolution,
which dates from the Boston Massacre
Of 1870, finds its logical completion,
just one century later, in the XVIII
Amendment, which gives to the equal
political and civil rights of every man
barn OR naturalized in our Republic
the shield and defense Of the Federal
Constitution. The pillows Of ; aste
aud Privilege may roar and rage around
that rock, and may transicntly seem on
the point of washing it away: but its
foundations are deep-laid and steadfsst,
and the breakers Of Reaction and Sla-
very are hurled against and dash their
spray over it in vain.
We do net underrate the forces of
prejudice and Aristocracy. We do
not forget that very la,ge minority Of
the American People still hold in their
innost hearts that Blacks have no
rights which Whites are bound to re-
spect. We fully appreciate the desper-
alton wherewith. all the warning ele-
mcnts Of hatred to Republican achieve
ment will be combined and hurled
against the battlements Of Republican
ascendancy in the Presidential Election
of 1872. We do not doubt that local
successes, facilitated by Republican
feuds and dissensions, will inspire the
charging host with sanguine hope Of
victory, such as nerved it to put forth
its utmost strength in the earlier stages
of the contests of 1864 and 1868. Yet
our faith is clear and strong that the
battle-felds Of our late Civil War, the
Union was upheld and Slavery &C.
stroyed, and will never consciously de-
eide that the precious blood therein
poured out was layished in vain.
The TRIBUNE believes in the prose-
cution of the great struggle by legiti.
mate means to benefcent ends. To
State Sovereignty, itopposes indissoluble
National Integrity; to Slavery for
blacks, Liberty for All; to Prescription,
Enfrauchisement; to Popular lgno-
rance, Universal Education ; to iutensi-
ty and eternity Of wrathful Hate, uni.
versal and invincible Good Will. 1t
would tain do its utmost to hasten the
glad day when the South shall vie with
the North in exultation and gratitude
over the disappearance Of the last trace
or taint Of that spirit which impellea
Man to exult in the ownership and
chattelhood of his fellow Man.
Profoundly do we realize that the con-
test is not yet ended that Millions
mourn, more or less publicly, the down.
fall OF the Shareholders Confederacy,
and rear their children to hate those by
whose valor and constancy its over
throw was achieved. If we ever seem
to differ essentially from other Repub-
licans, our conviction that magnanimity
is never weakness, that vengeance is
never polite, and that devils are not
east out b. Beelzebub, must serve to
explain alleged ecccntricit;es whose
perfect vindication VIC leave to Time
and reflection.
The TRIBUNE has been, and must be,
Jealous adoocate of Protection to
Home industry. Regarding habitual
idlene:s as the greatest foe to human
progress, the bane ofhuman happiness,
we seek to win our countrymen in mas
ses from the ensnaring lures Of Specu-
lation, Of Traffic, and Of always over
crowded Professions, to the tranquil
paths of Productive Industry. We
would gladly deplete our over crowded
cities, where thousands vainly jostle
aud crowd in misguided quest Of
"Something to Do," to cover prairies
aud plains with colonies absorbed in
Agriculture, Mechanics and Manufao-
lures, and constantly projecting into the
blank, void wilderness the homes and
the works of civilized Man. Holding
the Protection Of Home Industry by
discriminating duties on imported
Wares and Fabrics essential to the rap
id, benefcent diffusion of Production
IN all its phases aud departments, and
so to the instruction OF our people 10
all the gaiuful arts of Peace, We urge
our countrymen to adhere to and up
old that policy, in uudoubtiug faith
that the true interest, not Of class or
a section, but of each section and ev.