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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.


of Independence approaches its complete
realization. The noble, inspiring assertion
that "al men are created equal, and en-
dow ed by their Creator with inalienable
rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, is no longer a glitterIug gener-
ality, a poets fancy, a philosophers spec
ulation, but the recognized base of our po-
htcal fabric. The benign Revolution,
which dates from the Boston Massacre of
1770, finds its logical completion, just one
century later, in the XVIII Amendment,
which gives to the equal political and CIV
il rights of every man born or naturallzed
in our Republic the shield and defence Of
the Federal Constitution The pillows Of
Caste and Privilege may roar and rage
around that rock, and may transiently
seem on the poit Of washing it away; but
its foundations are deep-laid and stea1fast,
and the breakers of Reaction and Slavery
are hurled against and dash their spray
over it in v"in.
We do not wish to underratc the forces
of Prejudice and Aristocracy. We do
not forget that very large minority of
the American people still hold in their in
most hearts that Blacks have no rights
which Whites are bound to respect. We
fully appreciate the desperation wherewitn
all the warning elements of hatred to Re-
publican achievement will be combined and
hurled against the battements Of Repuh-
lican ascendency in the Presidential Flee
ton of 1872. We do not doubt that To-
cal successes, facilitated by Republican
feuds and dissensions, will inspire the
charging host with a sangulne hope of vic.
tory, such as nerved it to put forth its nj
most 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 bat
tle-felds of our late Civil War, the Union
was upheld and Slavery destroyed, and
will never consciously decide that the pre-
cious blood thereon poured out was lavish
ed in vain.
The Tribune believes in the prosecution
of the great struggle by Legitimate means
to benefccnt ends. To State s, vereicnty,
it opposes ndissoluble National Integrity ;
to Slavery for Blacks, Liberty for All to
Prescription, Eufranchiscmcnt; to Popu-
lar Ignorance, Universal Education; to
intensity Of wrathful Hate, universal and
invinciblc Good VIII. 1t would fain do
its utmost to hasten the glad day when the
South shall vie with the North III exulta.
on and gratitude over the disappearance
Of the last trace or faint Of that spirit
which impeIled Man to exult in the own
ership and chatteIhood Of his fellow Man.
Profoundly do we realize that the con-
test is not yet onded-that Millions mourn
more or less publicly, the downfall of the
shareholders Conlederacy, and rear their
children to hate those by whose valor and
constancy itsovcrthrow was achieved. IF
we ever seem to differ essentially from
other Republicans, our conviction that
magnanimity is never weakness that ven
geance is never polite and that devils
are not cast out by Beezebub, must serve
to explain alleged eccentricfies whose per-
feet vindication we leave to Time and Re.
fection.
The Tribune has been, is, and must he,
Jealous advocate of Protection to Home
Industry. Regarding habtual idleness as
the greatest foe TO human progress, the
banc Of human happiness, we seek to win
our countrymenin masses from the ensnar-
lug lures OF Speculation, Of Traffic, and of
always over-crowded Professions, to the
tranquil paths of Protective Industry
We would gladly dcpIete our over-crowd-
ed cities, where thousands vainly iostle
AMI crowd in misguided quest of "Some-
thing to Do" to cover prairies and plains
with colonies absorbed in Agriculture,
Mechanics and Manufactures, and constant
ly projecting into the blank, void wilder
ness the homes and the works Of civilized
Man. Holding the Protection of Home
Industry by discriminating duties on i'm
ported Wares and Fabrics essential to the
rapid, heneGcent diffusion of Production
in all its phases and departments. and so
to the instruction of our people in all the
galnful arts of Peace, we urge our coun-
trymcn to adhere to and uphold that poll
cy, in undoubting faith that the tire inter-
est, not OF class or a section but Of each
section and every usl full class, is thereby
subserved aud promoted.
The Tribune aims to be rre.eminently a
Newspaper. Its correspondents traverse
every State, are present on every impor-
tant battlefield, are early advised of eve
ry notable Cabinet decision, observe the
proceedings of Congress, of Legislatures,
and of Conventions, and report to us by
telegraph all that seems of general inter-
est. We have paid for one days moment
GUS advices from Europe by Cable far more
than our entire receipts for the issue 10
which those advices reached our readers
II lavish outlay, unsleeping vigilance, and
unbounded faith in the liberality and dis
cernment Of the reading public will ena-
BILE us to make Il journal which has no SUI
perlor IN the accuracy, variety and fresh
ness of Its freshness of its contents, the
Tribune shall be such a journal.
To Agriculture and the subaervient arts,
we have devoted, and shall Professionally
devote, more means and space than any Of
our rivals. We aim 10 make the Weekly
Tr bune such paper as no farmer can az
ford to do without, however widely his
politics may differ from ours. Our reports