New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-04-27
n. Y. TRIBUNE.
L q III.

to our fathers Declaration of independence
approaches its complete realization. The no.
bic, inspiring assertion that " all men are created
equal" and endowed by their Creator with
inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness, is no longer glittering gen
eralty, poet fancy, philosopher specula.
ton but the recognized base Of our political
fabric The benign Revolution, which dates
from the Boston Massacre of 100. 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 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 deeplaid and steadtast, and the breakers of
Reaction and Slavery are hurled against and
dash their spray over IL in vain.
We do not underrate the forces of Prejudice
and Arlstocracy. We do not forget that a very
large minority of the American People still
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 elements of hatred To Republican
achievement will be combined and hurled against
the battIements of Republican ascendency in
the Presidential Election OF 1872. We do not
doubt that local successes. facilitated by Re
publican eudS and diSSenSionS, will inspire the
charging host with a sanguine hope of victory,
such as nerved IT To put forth its 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-heds 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 in vain.
JHE TRIBUNE believes in the prosecution Of
the great struggle by legitimate means to beneh-
cent ends. TO State Sovereignty it opposes
indissoluble National Integrity tn Slavery for
Blacks, Liberty for All; to Prescription, En-
reimbursement; to Popular Ignorance, Univer-
sal Education; 10 intensity and eternity OF
wrathful Hate. universal and invincible Good
Will. 1t would iain do its utmost to hasten the
glad day when the South shall vie with the
North in eXulaion 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
Confederacy, and rear their children to hate
those by whose vaOr and constancy its over
throw was achieved. If we ever seem to differ
essentially from other Republicans, our convic-
ton that magnanimity is never weakness, that
vengeance is never polite, and that devils
not cut out by Beelzebub, must serve to explain
alleged eccentricities whose perfect vindication
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 hu
man happiness 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 prairies and plains with colo
nia nh Aryrip nd
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
its phases and departments, and so to the in
structon of our people in all the gaintul arts of
Peace, urge our cOuntrymen TO adhere to
and uphold that policy, III undoubting faith
that the true interest, not of class a section,
but of each section and every useful class, is
thereby subServed and promoted.
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telegraph all that seems Of general interest. We
have paid for one days momentous advices from
Europe by Cable far more than entire re-
ceipts for the issGe in which those advices
reached our readers. If lavish outlay, unsleep-
ing vigilance, and unbouuded faith in che liber
atty and discernment of the reading public, will
enable us to make journal which has no supe-
ror in the accuracy, variety, and freshness of
its contents, iHE TRIBUNE shall he such Jour
nal.
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