New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-18
N. Y. TRIBUNE.


to our fathers Declaration of Independence
approaches Its complete realization. The no.
ble inspiring assertion that 90 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 a ghttering gen
crafty, poets fancy, philosophers specula-
ton, but the recognized base of our political
fabric. The benign Revolution, which dates
from the Boston Massacre of l770, 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 it away; but it's 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 Prejudice
| and Aristocracy. We do not forget that very
large minority of the American People still
hold In their Utmost hearts that Blacks haveso
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 battlements of Republican ascendency in
the Presidential Election of 1872 We do not
| doubt that local successes, facilitated by Re-
publican feuds and dissensions, will inspire the
charging host with 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 fields 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.
The TRIBUNE believes in the prosecution of
the great.struggle by legitimate means to benef-
cent ends 10 State Sovereignty 1T opposes
indissoluble National Integrity TO Slavery for
Blacks, Liberty for All to Prescription, En-
reimbursement; to Popular Ignorance, Univer
sal Education; to intensity and eternity of
wrathful Hate, universal and invincible 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 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 Milisas mourn, more or
less publicly, the downfall sf the shareholders
Confederacy, and rear th,sr children to hate
those by whose valor and aonstancy its over
throw was achieved. IfwGzpver seem to differ
essentially from other Rep,t Leans, our convic
ton that magnanimity is i}lver weakness, that
vengeance is never polite I'D that devils are
not cut out by Beelzebub, rsSst serve TO explain
alleged eccentricities who's, iteriect yindcation
We leave to Time and Reflex on.
The TRIBUNE has been, and must be, a
Jealous advocate of Protc eon to Home In
dustry Regarding habitus ideness as the
greatest foe to human proex -, the bane of hu-
man happiness, we seek tCS> "A our countrymen
in masses from the ensnari. lures of Specula-
ton, of Traffic, and of alive = ,:ver-crowded Pro
LESSONS, to the tranquil &s.ns of Productive
Industry. We would gla,'ls. deplete our over
crowded cities, where then-Ands vainly jostle
and crowd in misguided q,-.@: of " Something
TO Do to cover praries $50. plains with colo.
MES absorbed in Agricult %, Mechanics and
Manufactures, and consta,S+1y projecting into
the blank, void wilderness ,Se homes and the
works of civilized Man. Hosting the Protection
of Home Industry by discr2 ,inating 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 gainful arts OF
Peace, we urge our countrymen TO adhere TO
and uphold that policy, in undoubting faith
that the true interest, not of class section,
but of each section and every useful class, is
thereby subserved and promoted.
The TRIBUNE aims to be pre- -emlnently
NepS- paper. It's correspondents traverse every
State, are present on every important battle field,
are early advised of every notable Cabinet deci-
sion, observe the proceedings Of Congress, Legis-
latures, and of Conventions, and report to us by
telegraph all that seems of general interest. We
have paid for one days momentous adviceS from
Europe by Cable far more than entire
cepts for the issue in which those advices
reached our readers. If lavish outlay, unsleep-
ing vigilance, and unbouuded faith in the liber
atty and discernment OF the reading public, will
enable to make journal which has no supe
riOr in the accuracy, variety, and freshness of
its contents, TIE TRIBUNE shall be such Jour
nal.
To Agriculture and the subServient arts, we
have devoted, and shall persisently devote, more
means and space than any of our rivals. We aim
tn
no farmer can afford to do without, however
widely his politics may differ from ours Our re-
ports of the Cattle, Horse, PRO-. ace, and General
Markets, are so full and accrsrase, our essays in
calculation of the farmers cslisng, and our reg
u lar reports Of the Farmers = Cub and kindred
gatherings, so interesting q hat the poorest
farmer will find therein mir, ST suggestion and
counsel, Of which he cannGsssemain ignorant
without positive and serious ks,S. We sell The
WEEKLY to Clubs for less thas As value in dwell
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ton is already very large, a. believe that
Half Million more farmers We sslke 1t whenever
1T shall be commended to tn. attention. We
ask our friends everywhere to-. us in so com
mending it. s"H
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