Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-02-09
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YORK TRIBUNE
1871.

cost or multl10rm ag0nleS, DereaVementS,
devastations, the American Idea embodied
in the preamble to our fathers Declare
ton of Independence approaches its COM
plete realization. The noble, inspiring
assertion that g all men are created equal"
and endowed by their Creator with mali
enable rights to life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness, is no longer a glittering
generality, n philosophers speculation,
but the recognized base of u political
fabric. The benign Revolution, which
dates from the Boston Massacre of 1870,
finds its logical completion, just one Gen.
fury 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 pillows of Caste
and Privilege may roar and rage around
that rock, and may transiently seem on
the point of washing it away: but its
foundations are deep-laid and steadfast,
and the breakers of Reaction and Slavery
are hurled against and dash their spray
over it in vain.
We do not underrate the forces of Pre-
judice and Aristocracy. We do not forget
that a very large minority of the Ameri-
can People still hold in their inmost hearts
that Blacks have no rights which Whites
are bound to respect. We fully appreci-
ate the desperation wherewith all the war
ring elements of hatred to Republican
achievement will be combined and hurled
against the b~attlements of Republican as
tendency in the Presidential Election of
1872. We do not doubt thatIocal success
es. facilitated by Republican feuds ard
Discussions, 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
1894 and 1868. Yet our faith is clear and
strong that the American People still bless
God that, on the red battle-felds of our
late Civil War, the Union was upheld and
Slavery destroyed, and will never conscious
ly decide hat the precious blood thereon
poured out was lavished in vain.
THE TRIBUNE believes in the prosecu-
ton of the great struggle by legitimate
means to bene6cent ends. To State Sow
ereignty, it opposes indissoluble National
Integrity to Slavery for Blacks, Liberty
for All to Prescription, EnfranchisemeEt /;
to Popular Ignorance. Universal EGuca-
ton to intensity and eternity of wrathful
Hate, universal and invincible Good VIII.
1t would fain do its utmost to hasten the
glad day when the South shall vie with
the North in exultation and gratitude over
the disappearance of the last trace or faint
of that spirit which impelled Man to exult
in the ownership and chattelhood 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 C~onfederacy, and rear their
children to hate those by whose valor and
constancy its overthrow was achieved. If
we ever seem to differ essentially from
other Republicans, our conviction that
magnanimity is never weakness, that VEN
geance is never polite, and that devils are
not cast out by Beelzebub, must serve to
explain alleged eccentricities whose per-
feet vindication we leave to Time and Re
Fiction.
The TRIBUNE has been. is. and must
be. a jealous advocate of Protection to
Home Industry. Regarding habitualidle-
ness as the greatest foe to human progress,
the bane of human happiness, we seek to
win our countrymeh in masses from the
ensnaring lures of Speculation, of Traffic,
and of always overcrowded Professions, to
the tranquil paths of Productive Industry.
We would gladly deplete our o~vercrowded
cities, where thousands vainly jostle and
crowd in misguided quest of Something
to Do" to cover p~rairies and plains with
colonies absorbed in Agriculture, Mechan-
les and Manufactures, and constantly pro-
jecting 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,
beneicent diffusion of Production In all
it's phases aud departments, and so to the
instruction of our people in all the gain
full arts of Peace, We urge our country
men to adhere to and uphold that policy,
in %undoubting faith that the true interest.
not of a class or a section. but of each sec
ton and every useful class, is thereby sub
served and promoted.
THE TRIBUNE aims to be pre-eminently
a Newspaper. Its correspondents traverse
every State, are present on every impor-
tant battlefield. are early advised of every
notable Cabinet decision, observe the pro-
ceedings of Congress, of Legislatures, and
o: Conventions, and report to us by tele-
graph all that seems of general interest.
We have paid for one days momentous
advices from Europe by Cable far more
than our entire receipts for the issue in
which those advices reached our readers.
If lavish outlay, unsleeping vigilance, and
unbounded faith in the liberality and dis
cerDment of the reading public, will en-
able us to make a journal which has no
superior in the accuracy, variety, and fresh
ness of its contents. THE TRIBUNE shall
be such a journal.
To Agriculture andthe subservient arts,
we have devoted, and shall persistently
devote, more means and space than any of
our rivals. We aim to make THE WEEK
LY TRIBUNE such a paper as no farmer
can afford to do without, however widely
his politics may differ from ours. Our re-
ports of the Cattle, Horse. Produce, and
General Markets, are so full and accurate,
our essays in elucidation of the farmers
calling, and our regular reports of the
Farmers' Club and kindred gatherings,
are SO interesting, that the poorest farmer
will find therein a mine of suggestion and
counsel, which he cannot emain ignorant
without positive and serious loss. We sell
THE WEEKLY to Clubs for less than its
value in dwellings for waste-paper and,
though its subscription salready very large,
we believe that a Half Million more farm
ers will take it whenever it shall be com
mended to their attention. We ask our