Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-12-29
NEW YORK TRIBUNE
For 1872.

The consolidation of Italy so long fragment
airy and impotent into one powerful State, with
Rome as its capital the humiliation of France
! through Il series of crushing defeats, ending
with the siege and capitulation of her proud and
| gay metropolis the expulsion of the BourbonS
from the Spanish throne, and the substitution
| for them of a scion of the most liberal among
the royal houses the virtual absorption of the
| Kingdoms of SaXony, Wurtemberg, Bavaria,
with Baden, Hesse the Hanse Towns &C., I'M
der the hea lship of Prussia, into the triumphant
and powerful empire of Germany and the
arming of Russia to re-assert her preponderance
in the councils of Europe, or to prosecute her
| often postponed but never rellnqulshed designs
| in the great city founded by Constantine and
the vast but decaying and anarchical dominion
of the Sultan, all combine to invest with pro-
| found interest the ever-changing phases of our
tidings from the Old World. The Tribune
! through trusted correspondents stationed at all
! points IN Europe where great movements are in
| progress or imminent, aims to present q COM
plete and instructive panorama of events on that
| continent, and TO mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Ecclesias-
! tiCism on the one hand and nineteenth Century
| skepticism and secularism On the other. Re-
| cognizing Divine Providence in all that pro-
| ceedS and is, it looks hopefully on the great
| conflict as destined Qike our own recent con-
| vulsion) to evolve from strife disaster, and
| seeming chaos, fairer and happier future for
| the toiling masses of mankind.
and rascality in Office has been inaugurated in
our city, whereby the government of our State
has been revoutiOnized through an initial trl-
umph of reform which surpasses the most SAN
guine anticipations 1t is morally certain that
the movement thus inaugurated cannot in Its
progress, be circumscribed to any locality or
any party, but that its purifying influence is
destined to be felt in every part of the Union,
rebuking venality, exposing robbery, wrestling
power from politicians by trade, and confiding
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this benefcent and vitality needed REFORM the
Tribune will devote its best energies regardless
of personal interests or party productions, es-
teeming the choice of honest and faithful men
to office as OF all New Departures the most cs-
seutial and suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to equal rights regardless
of color have Invested our current politics OF
half their bygone intensity, However parties
NAV henceforth rise or fall, it is clear that the
fundamental principles which have hitherto
honorably distinguished the Republicans are
henceforth to be regarded as practically accept
ed bv the whole country. The right OF every
man to his own limbs and sincws-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 every citizen
the full enjoyment of his libirty until he for
feits it BIZ crime-such are the broad and firm
foundations of our National edihce; and pals1ed
be the hand which shall seek to displace them
Though not YET twenty years Olui JIG 1tCPuoll-
can party has completed the noble fabric Of
Emancipation, and may fairly invoke thereon
the sternest judgment of man and the benig-
nant smile of God.
Henceforth, the mission of our Republic is one
of peaceful progress. To protect the weak and
the humble from violence and oppresson-to
extend the boundaries and diffuse the blessings
of ciyilization-to stimulate ingenuity to the
production of new inventions for economizing
labor and thus charging produetion-to draw
nearer to each other the producers Of food and
of fabrics, of grains and of metals, and thus en-
nance the gains of industry by reducing the cost
of transportation and exchanges between farm
ers and artisans-such is the inspiring task to
which this nation now addresses itself, and by
which it would fain contribute to the progress,
enlightenment and happiness of our race. To
this great and good work, The Tribune contrib
utes its Jealous, persistent efforts:
Agriculture will continue to be more espe-
cialiy elucidated in its Weekly and Semi Week
ly editions, to which some of the ablest and most
Successful tllers of the soil will steadily con-
tribute. No farmer who sells $500 worth OF
produce per annum can afford to do without our
market reports, or others equally lucid and
commemorative. If he should read nothing else
but what relates to his own calling and its re-