New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-11
n. Y. TRIBUNE.


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mulhform agonies, bereayements, devastations,
the American Idea embodied in the preamble
to our fathers Declaration of Iudependence
approaches its complete realization. The no.
bic, inspiring assertion that all men are created
equal" and endowed by their Creator with
inalenable rights to life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness, is no longer a glttering gen.
erality. poets fancy, philosophers specula-
/ ton. but the recognized base of our political
| fabric. The benign 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 born or
naturalized in our Republic the shield and de
| tense Of the Federal Constitution. The pillows
| OF Casts and Privilege may roar and rage around
| that rock. and may transieltly seem on the
| point ct washngit away; but its foundations
are deep-laid and steadfast and the breakers OF
Reaction and Slavery are hurled against and
dash their spray over 1t in vain.
| We do not underrate the forces of Prejudice
and Aristocracy. We do not forget that very
| large minority of the American People still
| hold IN their Utmost hearts that Blacks have no
rights which Whites are bound to respect We
| fully appreciate the desperation wherewith all
the warning elements of hatred to Republican
| achievement 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 Re
! publican 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
1858 let 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 destroyed, and will
never CONSCIOUSLY decide that the precious blood
thereon poured onk WAS lavshed in vain.
HE IRlRuNE Believes in the prosecution Of
the great struggle by legitimate means to beneti-
cent ends. To State Sovereignty it opposes
indissolubie National Integrity; 10 Slavery for
Blacks, Liberty for All 70 Prescription, En-
Reimbursement to Popular Ignorance, Univer-
sal Education; to intensity and eternity OF
wrathful Hate, universal 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 dis
appearance of the last trace or faint of that
spirit which impelled Man to exult in the owner
ship 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
Confectionery, and rear their children to hate
those by whose valor and constancy its over
throw achieved. If we ever seem to differ
essentially from other Republicans, our convic-
ton that magnanlmity IS never weakness, that
vengeance is never polite, and that devils are
not cut out by Beelzebub, must serve to explxin
alleged eccentricities whose perfect yindication
We leave to Time and Reflection.
THE TRIBUNE has been, is, and must be, a
Jealous advocate of Protection to Home In.
dustry. Regarding habitual idleness as the
greatest foe to human progress, the bane of hui
man happiness, we seek to win our countrymen
in masses from the ensnaring lures of Specula-
ton, of Traffic, and of always over-crowded Pro
LESSONS, to the tranquil paths of Productive
Industry. We would gladly deplete our over
crowded cities, where thousands vainly jostle
and crowd in misguided quest of - Something
to Do to cover pralreS and plains with colo
MES absorbed in Agriculture, Mechanics and
Manufactures, 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
rapid, benefcent diffusion of Production in all
It's phases and departments, and to the in
struction of our people in all the gainfu arts Of
Peace, we urge our countrymen to adhere to
and uphold that policy, in undoubting faith
that the true interest, not of class section,
but of each section and every useful class, is
thereby subserved and promoted.
The TRIBUNE aims 10 be pre- eminently a
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Europe by Cable far more than our entire re-
ceipts for the issue in which those adviceS
reached our readers. If lavish outlay, unsleep-
ing vigilance, and unbouuded faith in the liber-
atty and discernment of the reading public will
enable US to make journal which has no supe-
rior in the accuracy, variety, and freshness of
its contents, THE TRIBUNE shall be such Jour
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