Litchfield enquirer., 1870-12-22
THE NETWORK TRIBUNE.
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.8 4 1871. 4. Al
 Through struggle and suffering. at the cost of mnltiform. agonies, bereayements,
 deyastations. the American Idea embodied
 in the preamble to our fathers Declaration
 of Independence approaches it's complete
 realization. The noble, inspiring assertion
 that ''all men are created equal" and en- dowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
 happiness, is no longer giittering gener-
 ality, poets fancy. philosophers specu-
 lation. but the recognized base of our polit.
 ical fabric. The benign Revolution, which
 dates from the Boston Massacre of 1770, finds its logical completion, just one cen tury later, in the XVth Amendment, which
 gives to the equal political and civil rights of every man born or naturalized in oul Republic the shield and defense of the Federal Constitution. The pillows of
 Caste and Privilege may roar and rage a.
 round that rock, and may transiently seem
 on the point of washing it away: but its
 foundations are deep-laid and steadfast,
 and the breakers of Reaction and Slavery are hurled against and dash their spray
 over it in vain.
 We do not underrate the forces of Pref l udice and Aristocracy. We do not forget
 that very large minority of the American
 People still hold in their inmost hearts that
 Blacks have no rights wuich Whites are
 bound to respect We fully appreciate the desperation wherewith all the warring ele- ments of hatred to Republican achievment
 will be combined and hurled against the battlements of Republican ascendency in the Presidential Election of 1872. We do not doubt that local successes. facilitated by Republican feuds and dissentions, will inspire the charging host with a 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 American People still bless God that, on the red battle fields of our late Civil War, the Union was upheld and Slavery destroy ed, and will never consciously decide that the precious blood thereon poured out was lavished in vain.
 THE TRIBUNE believes in the prosecution of the great struggle by legitimate means to beneficent ends. To State Sovereignty, 1t opposes indissoluble National integrity to Slavery for Blacks, Liberty for Ali; to Prescription, Enfranchisement; to Popular Ignorance. Universal Education; to inten- sity and eternity of wrathful Hate, uniyer- sal and invincible Good Will. It would fain do its utmost to hasten the glad day when the South shall vie with the North ill exultation and gratitude over the last trace or taint of that spirit which impeled Man to exult in the ownership and chattelhood of his fellow Man.
 Profoundly do we realize that the contest is not yet ended-that Millions mourn, more or less publicly, the downfall of the shareholders Confederacy, and rear their children to hate those by whose valor and constancy its overthrow was achieved. If We ever seem to differ essentially from otn- nanimity is never weakness, that vengeanc ce IS never polite, and that devils are II ot cast out by Beelzebub, must serve to ex. plain alleged eccentricities whose perfect vindication we leave to Time and Refiec. tion. .. a sa
 HE TRIBUNE has been, Is. and must be, a jealous advocate of Protection 10 Home Industry. Regarding habitual idleness as the greatest foe to human progress, the bane of human happiness, We seek to win our countrymen i1 masses from the ensnar- ing lures of Speculation of Traffic, and of always over-crowded Professions, to the tranquil paths ofProductive Industry. We would gladly deplete our over-crowded cities, where thousands vainIy jostle and crowd in misguided quest of "Something to De-" to cover prairies and plains with colonies absorbed in Agriculture, Mechan- jos and Manufactures, and constantly pro- jecting 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 rapid, benefcent diffusion of Production in its phases and departments, and so to the In. struction of our people in all the gainful arts of Peace, we urge our countrymen to adhere to and uphold that policy, in un- doubting faith that the true interest, not of a class or a section, but of each section and every useful class, is thereby subserved and and promoted. ss }.
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