New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-04-13
N. Y. TRIBUNE.


to our fathers DECLARATION OF Independence /
approaches its complete realization. The no
bic, inspiring assertion that all men are created
eoual," and endowed by their Creator with |
inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pur |
suit of happiness, is no longer glttering gen
crafty, poets fancy, philosophers specula- |
ton, but the recognized base OF our political
fabric The benign Revolution, which dates
from the Boston Massacre of lIIo, finds It's
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 blllows
of Caste and Privilege may roar and rage around
that rock, and may transiently seem on the
point of washing 1t away; but ITS foundations
are deep laid and steadiast, and the breakers OF
Reaction and Slavery hurled against and
dash their spray over it in vain.
We do not underrate the forces of Prejudice
and Aristocracy We do not forget that q Very
large minority OF the American People still
hold in their Utmost hearts that Blacks have no
rights which Whites 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 battements of Republican aseendency 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 nerved it to put forth It's 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 destroyed, and will
| never consciously decide that the precious blood
thereon poured ont was lavished i'll vain.
The TRIBUNE believes in the prosecution of
the great struggle by legitimate means to beneh-
| cent ends. To State Sovereignty 1T opposes
indissoluble National Integrity; to Slavery for
Blacks, Liberty for All to Prescription, En-
| reimbursement to Popular Ignorance, Unlver-
| sal Education; to intensity and eternity OF
wrathful Hate, universal and invinclble Good
| Will 1t would fan 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 talnt OF that
| spirit which impelled Man to exut IN the owner
ship and chattehood of his fellow Man.
Profoundly do we realize that the contest is
not vet 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 It's over
throw was achieved. If we ever seem to differ
| essentially from other Republicans, our convlc-
| ton that magnanimity is never weakness, that
vengeance is never polite. and that devils are
not cut out by Beelzebub, must serve TO explain
alleged eccentrcities whose perfect vlndlcation
We leave to Time and Reflection
| THE TRIBUNE has been, is, and must be,
| 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 valnly Jostle
and crowd in misguided quest of . Something
to Do, to cover prairies and plains with colo.
MES absorbed in Agriculture, Mechanics and
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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
| its phases and departments, and SO to the IN
struction of our people in all the gantul arts OF
| Peace, we urge countrymen to adhere to
| and uphold that policy, III undoubtng faith
that the true interest, not OF class or section,
but of each section and every useful class, Is
thereby subserved and promoted.
The TRIBUNE aims to be pre-emnently
Newspaper. It's correspondents traverse every
State, are present every important battlefield,
are early advised of every notable Cabinet deer
sion observe the proceedings of Congress, Legls
latures, and of Conventions, and report to us by
telegraph all that seems OF general interest. We
have paid for one day momentous advlces from
| Europe by Cable far more than entire re-
cepts for the issue in which those advices
reached our readers. If lavish outlay, unsleep-
| ing vigilance, and unbouuded faith in the hber-
atty and dscernment of the reading public, will
| enable us to make journal which has no supe-
| rior in the accuracy, variety, and freshness OF
its contents, TIE TRIBUNE shall be such a jour
nal.
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gatherings, are so interesting, that the poorest
| farmer will find therein mine of suggestion and
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