The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-03-09
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
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,f Independence approaches its complete |
realisation. The noble, inspiring assertion |
hat call men are created equal" and en-
lowed by their Creator with inalieuable
rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness, is no longer glttering gener.
ality, q poets fancy, a philosophers spec,
ulation, but the recogn ised base OF our po-
litical fabric. The benign Revolution,
which dates from the Boston Massacre Of
17T0, 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 defense Of the
Federal Constitution. The billows Of
Caste and Privilege may roar and rage
around that rock, and may transiently
seem on the point of washing it away; bu'
its foundations are deep laid and steadfast,
and the breakers of Reaction and Slavery
are Lurled against and dash their spray
over it in vain.
We do not underrate the forces Of Pre-.
judice aud Aristocrs cy. We do not forget
that very large minority of the American
People ftill hold in their inmost hearts that
Blacks have no rights which Whites are
bound to respect. We fully appreciate the
desperation wherewith all the warning ele-
ments of hatred to Republican achieve.
| ment 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 neryed it to put
forth its utmost strength in the earlier
1 - h. nt1 an1
Yet our faith 10 clear and strong that the
| American People still bless God that on
| the red battle-ields Of our late Civil War
the Union was upheld ami Slavery de-
stroyed and viii never consciously dec. de
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 benefcient ends. 20 State Sovereignty,
it opposes indssoluble National Integrity:
to Slavery for Blacks, Liberty for All; to
| Prescription, Enfranchisement; to Popular
Ignorance, Universal Education; to inten-
sity and eternity of wrathful Hate, univer.
sal and invincibe Good Will. 1t would
fain do it's utmost to hasten the glad day
when the South shall vie with the North in
exultation and gra itude over the disap-
| peorance Of the last trace or taint os that
spirit which impelled Man to exult in the
| ownership and chattlchood OF his fellow
! Man.
Profoundly do we realize that the con-
test 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
conslancy its overthrow was achieved. II
we ever seem 10 differ essential y from
other Republicans, our convictions thai
magnaniniity is never weakness, that ven
| geance is never polite, and that devils ar,
not cast out by Beelzebub, must serve tC
explain alleged eccentricities whose per-
I iect vindication VIC leave to Time and Re
| fection.
The TRI3psE has been, is, and must be
a Jealous advocate of Protection to HON,
Industry. Regarding habitual idleness a.
the greatest Toe to human progress, the ban.
Of human happiness, we seek to win ou
countrymen i'll masses from the ensnarinJ
\ lures Of Speculation, OF Traffic, and o
always over-crowded Professions, to tn,
tranquil paths Of Productive Industry
We would gladly deplete our over.cro VIDE,
cities, where thousands rainly jos!le an,
crowd in misguided quests of "Somethin
to Do, to cover prairies and plains wit
colonies absorbed il Agriculture, Mechan
.cs and Manufacturers, aud constantly pro
jecting INTO ifie-blank, void wilderness til
lomes and the works of civilized Man
Holding the Projection of Home Industr
by discriminating duties on impoi ted Ware
and Fabrics essential to the rapid, bene
hcient diffusion of Production in all it
phases and departments, and so to the in
s,ruction Of our people in all the gaipfu
arts of Peace, we urge our countrymen t
adhere to and uphold tina: policy, in un
doubling faith that the true interest. not c
u Class or a section, but of each section an
every useful class, is tn ereby subserGe
and promoted.
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tant battle field, are early advised Of ever
notable Cabinet decision, observe th
proceedings of Congress, of Legislatures
and Of Conventions, and report to us
! telegraph oil that seems of general intel
-, est. We have paid for one days momer
tous advices from Europe by Cable far mol
than our entire receipts for the issue
which those advices reached our reader
o If lavish outlay, upsleeping vigilance, al
!, unbounded faith in the liberality and di
eernmeEt of the reading public, will el
: able us to make journal which has l
e superior in the accuracy, variety, ar
& freshness Of its contents. The TRIBU,
shall be such q journal.
To Agriculture and the subservient art
c we have devoted, and shall persistent
!, devote, more means and space than any
r. our rivals. We aim TO make TAE WEEK
h TRIBUNE such a paper as no farmer CT
i" afford to do without, however widely
IL politics may differ from oGrs. Our repor
Of the Cattle, Horse, Produce, and Ge
"a eral Markets, are so full and accurate, o
essays in elucidation of the Farmers Cl
and kindred gatherings, are so interestin
b. that the poorest farmer will find therein
l. mine of suggestions and counsel. of whi
| he cannot remain ignorant without po
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y it whenever il shall he commended to t h
, attention. We ask our friends everywh,
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