New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-05
New York Tribune
For 1879.


mentary and impotent. into one powerful State.
with Rome as its capital; the humiliation of
France through series Of crushing defeats,
ending with the siege and captulation of her
proud and gay metropolis; the expulsion of the
Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and the sub
sttution for them of scion of the most liberal
among royal houses the virtual absorption of
the kingdoms OF Saxony, Wurttemberg. Bavaria.
with Baden. Hesse. the Hanse Towns. &C.,
under the headship of Prussia, into the triumph
ant and powerful empire of Germany; and the
arming OF Russia to reassert her prepOrderancs
in the councils Of Europe, or to pro ecute her
often postponed but never relirquished designs
on the great city founded by Constantine and the
vast but decaying and anarchica dominion of the
Sultan, all combine to invest with profound in.
terest the ever.changng 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 a complete and in
structive panorama of events on that continent,
and to mirror the prolonged struggle between
middeage Feudalsm and EcceSia.tiCisn on
the one hand and Nineteenth Century skepticism
and secularism on the other. Recognizing
Divine Providence in all that proceeds aud Is, it
looks hopefully the great conflicts as destined
(hke our own recent convulsion) to evolve from
strife. disaster, and seeming chaos, fairer and
happier future for the toiiing masses Of mankind.
In our own country war upon corruption and
rascallty IN Office has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government Of our State has
been revolutonzed through an initial triumph
of Reform which surprises the most sanguine
antcipations. It is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugurated cannot, in It's pro.
gress, be circumscribed to any locality or any
party, but that its purifying influence is destined
to be felt in every part OF the Union, rebuiliRg
venality, exposing robbery, wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and conliding it in those
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cent and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune
will devote its best energies, regardless OF per
sonal interests or party predictions. esteemng
the choice of honest and faithful men 10 Office
as of all New Departures the most essential and
auspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic party
of its hostility to Equal Rights, regardless of
Color, has Invested our current politics OF half
their by-gon intensity, However parties may
henceforth rise fall, i: is clear that the funda
mental principles which have hitherto honorably
distinguished the Republicans are henceforth to
be regarded as practically accepted by the whole
country. The right of every man to his own
limbs and sinews-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 liberty until he forteits it by crime-such
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma
tional cdifce and palsied be the hand which
shall seek to displace them! Though not yet
twent, years Old the Republican party has com
pleted the noble fabric of Emancinaton, and
may fairly invoke thereon the sternesJ Judgment
of Man and the benignant smile of God
Henceiorth. the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the weak
and humble from violence and oppression-to
extend the boundaries and diiiuse the blessings
Of Civilizaion-to stimulate Ingenuity to the
production o. new inventions for ec' nomising
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nearer to each other he producers OF Food and
Of Fabrics, OF Grains and of Metals and thus
enhance the gains of Industry by reducing the
cost of transportation and exchanges between
farmers and artisans-such as the inspiring task
to which this Nation now addresses itself, and
by whica i; would fuin contribute to the progress,
enlightenment. and happiness # our race. To
this great and good work, The Tribune contrib.
utes its Jealous, persistent efforts.
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varied excellence and interest by those Of 1872
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