White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-04-06
TIE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
1871.

Through efrugCle Gnd suffering, at the cost
OF mutiform aeonies, hereavements, deSssta-
tons. the American idea embodied in the pre-
annie to our fathers Declaration of Indepen
deuce, approaches its complete realization.
The noble. inspiring assertion that call men
are created equal" and endowed BY their
Creator with inalienable rights TO life. liberty,
aui the pursuit Of happiness. IL no longer
elitt-ring generality, p .et's fancy, philoso-
piers speculation, but the recognized base OF
cur political fabric. The benign Revolution,
which dates from the Boston Massacre of ITO, |
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 paturalized in our Republic. the
shield and defen.e Of the Federal Constitution.
The pillows of Caste and Privilege may roar
and rage around that rock, and may transient |
" seem on the point of washing il away; but
its foundations are deep-laid and steadiast, and
the breakers Of Reaction and Slavery are hurl- |
ed against and dash their spray over it in vain.
We do not underrate the forces Of Prejudice
and Aristocracy. We do not forget that
very large minority of the American People
still hold in their Utmost hearts that Blacks
have no rights which Whites are bound to re-
spect. We fully appreciate the desperation
wherewilh all the warning elements Of hatred
to Republican achievement will be combined
and hurled against the battlements Of Repub
lican ascendency in the Presidential Election
of 1872 We do not doubt that local success
es, facilitated by Republican feuds and di.sen
sions. will inspire the charging host with q
sappuiue hone of victory, such as nerved il to
mt forth its utmost strength in the earlier sta
ges 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 vas up
held and Slavery destroyed, and will never
consciously decide that the precious blood
thereon poured out was lavished in ain.
The Tribune believes in the prosecution Of
the great struggle by legitimate means to be-
neicent ends. To State Sovereignty, it op-
poses indissOlsbie National Integrity; TO Sla-
very for Blacks, Liberty for AL; to Proecrip-
ton, Acknowledgement; to Popular Ignorance,
Universal Education; to intensity and eternity
of xrathful Hate. universal and invipcible
Good Will. 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 ex-
ult in the ownership and chattelhoOd Of his
fellow Man.
! Profoundly do We realize that the contest is
not yet ended-thtt Millions mourn. more OF
/ less publicly. the downfall of she Shareholders
, ScuicuVi"e, ah1 tCat W hatc
those by whose vslor and constancy its over
throw WAS achieved. If We ever seem TO diff
! fer essentially from other Republicans, our
conviction that magnauimty is never weak
ness, that vengeance is never polite, and that
/ devils are not cast out by Bee'zebub, must
! serve TO explain alleged eccentrici;ics whose
/ pc, feet vndication we leave to Time a.,d
/ Reflection.
( The Tribune has been, is, and must be, a
jealous advocate OF Projection to Home Iut,,,s
try Regarding kabitull iiIsne, = as the great
: est Zoe to human progress the bai,e Of human
happiness. We seek to ain our country mel il
mas es from the eu-Iarins lures Of Specns, lion.
; of Traffic. and of always ov-rcrou ded PROBES
sions, 10 the tranquil paths OF Productive In
dustry. We would gladly epiete cur over
crowded cities, where thousands vainly josiie
/ and crowd i'll misguided quest az Something
to Do" TO cover prairies .ad plains with col
onies absorbed in Agriculture. Mechanics aud
Manufactures, and constantly projecting into
the black, void wilderness the homes and the
works of civilized Man Holding The Protec.
tion OF Home lsdustry by discriminatin. duties
on imported Wares and Fabrics essential to the
rapid, beneficent diffusion of Production in All
its phases and departments, and so to the in
siruction of our people IN all the gainful arts
Of Peace, we urge onr eountrymen TO adhere
to and uph I'D that policy, in undoubting faith
that the true interest, not of class or a sec
ton, but of each section and every useful
class, is thereby subserved and promoted.
The Tribune aims to be pre- eminentlv a
Ners paper Its correspondents traverse eve
~ State, are present on every important bat
tie field, are early advised Of every notable
Cabinet decision, observe the proceedings of
Congress, Of Legislatures, and of Conventions,
and repor: to US BY telegraph all that seems Of
eeherai i"'eres'. We nave pa'o LOT one aty
far more than our entire receipts for the issue
in which those advices reached our readers.
If lavish outlay, unslceping vigilance, and un-
bounded faith in the liberality and discernment
of the reading public, will enable ia to make
journal which has no superior in the accuracy.
variety, and freshness of its contents, The
Tribune shall De sucG a journal.