The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-23
THE
YORK TRIB UNE,
For 1872.


State, with Rome as its capital; the humilt
ating of France through series of crushing
defeats, ending with the siege and capitula-
ton of her proud and gay metropolis the
expulsion of the Bourbons from the Spanish
throne, and the substitution for them of
scion of the most liberal among royal houses
the virtual absorption of the kingdoms Of
Saxony Wurtemburg, Bavaria, with Baden,
Hesse, the Hanse Towns, ETC., under the
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
powerful empire of Germany and the arm
ing of Russia to reasseFt her preponderance
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never rehnquished
designs Oh the great city founded by Con
stantine and the vast but decaying and an
archial dominion of the Sultan, all combine
to invest with profound interest the evers
changing phases of our tidings from the Old
World. The Tribune, through trusted COR
respondents stationed at all points in Eu-
rope where great movements are in progress
or imminent, aims to present complete and
instructive panorama of events on that con-
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Eeclesi-
asticsm on the one hand and Nineteenth
/ Century skepticism and secularism on the
other. Recognizing Divine Providence in
all that proceeds and is, it looks hopefully on
the great conflict as destined like our own
recent convulsionl to evolve from strife, dis
aster, aud seeming chaos, fairer and hap
pier future for the toiling masses of mankind.
In our own country, a war upon corruption
and raseality In Office has been inaugurated
in our City, whereby the government of our
State has been reyolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine antieipations. 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot in its progress be circumscribed to
any locality or any party, but that its puri-
flying influence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union, rebuking venality, expos
ing robbery, wrestling power from politicians
by trade, and eonfiding it in those worthiest
and fttest to WELD it. To this benefcent
and vitality needed Reform The Tribune will
devote its best energies, regardless of per-
sonal interests or party predictions, esteem
ing the choice of honest and faithful men to
office as of all New Departures the most es-
sential and suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our current poll
ties of half their bygone intensity. However
parties may heneeforth rise or fall, it is clear
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto honorably distinguished the Repub-
licans are heneeforth to be regarded as prac-
tieally accepted by the whole country. The
right of every man to his own limbs and sim
ews-the equality of all citizens before the
law-the inability of State to enslave any
portion of its people-the duty of the Union
to guarantee to eyerv citizen the full enjoy
' ment of his liberty until he forfeits it by
crime-such are the broad and firm founda-
lions of our National etlifice and palsied he
the hand that shall seek to displace them /!
Though not yet twenty years old, the Rcpub-
lican party has completed the noble fabric of
Emancipation, and may fairly invoke there
on the sternest Judgment of Man and the be-
nignant smile of God.
Henceforth the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
Q weak and the humble from violence and OPP
pressiOn-to extend the boundaries and diff
4 fuse the blessings of CiviizatiOn--to stimu-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in.
yentions for eeonomizing Labor and thus
enlarging Preduetion-tO draw nearer to
each other the producers of Food and Fab
n RIGS, of Grains and of Metals and thus en-
n nance the gains of Industry by reducing the
y cost of transportation and exchanges between
y farmers and artisans-such is the inspiring
' task to which the Nation now addresses itself
and by which it would fain contribute to the
progress enlightenment and happiness of ouI
4
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