The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02
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State, with Rome as its capital; the hunnilk
ating of France through a series of erusling
defeats, ending with the siege and eapitula.
ton of her proud and gay metropolis; The
expulsion of the Bourbons from the Spanish
throne, and the substitution for them Of
scion of the most liberal among royal houses;
the virtual absorption of the kingdoms Of
Saxony, Wurtemburg, Bavaria, with Baden
Hesse, the Hanse Towns, ETC., under tina
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
ing of Russia to reassert her preponderancs
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never relmquished
designs on the great city founded by Con-
stantine and the vast but decaying and an
arehial dominion of the Sultan, all combine
to invest with profound interest the ever.
changing phases of our tidings from the Old
World. The Tribune, through trusted cor
respondents stationed at all points in Eu-
rope where great movements are il progress
or imminent, aims to present a complete and
instructive panorama of events ON that con.
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and EccIesi-
asticism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century slxepticism and secularism on the
other. Recognizing Divine Providence in
all that proceeds and is, it looks hopefully on
the great conflict as destined like our own
recent eonvulsion) to evolve from strife, dis
| aster, aud seeming chaos, a filirer and hap
pier future for the toiling masses of mankind.
In our own country, war upon eorraption
and rascality in office has been inangurate,I
in our City, whereby the government of our
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which snrpasses the
most sanguine anticipations. 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inangurated
cannot, in its progress, be circumscTibed to
any locality or any party, but that its puri-
flying influence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union, rebuking venality, expos
ing robbery, Wrestling power from politicians
by trade, and confiding it in those wortliiest
and fittest to WELD it. To this beneticens
and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune will
devote its best energies, regardless of per-
sonal interests or party predictions, esteem
ing the choice of honest and faithful men to
Office as of all New Departures the most es-
sential and suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our current poll
tics of half their bygone intensity. However
parties may heneeforth rise or fall, it is clear
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto honorably distinguished the Repula-
lcans are henceforth to be regarded as prae-
tically accepted by the whole country. The
right of every man to his own limbs and sin
ews-the equality of all citizens before the
law-the inability of a State to enslaye any
| portion of its pe0ple--the duty of the Union
TO guarantee to every citizen the full ENJOY
ment OF his liberty until he forfeits it By
| crime-sueh are the broad and firm foIndss-s
tons of our National edifice; and pslsied be
| the hand that shall seek to displaee them
Though not yet twenty years old, the Rapub-
lican party has completed the noble fabric OF
Emancipation, and may fairly invoke there
on the sternest Judgment of Man and the be.
| nignant smile of God.
| Henceforth the mission of our Republic Is
one OF Peaceful Progress To protect the
weak and the humble from violence aud Ols-
| pression-tO extend the boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings of Civilizati0n-to stimIl-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
| ventions for econonizino Labor and thus
enlarging PrOdueti0n--t0 draw nearer to
each other the producers of Food and Fab
r1es of Grains and of Metals, and thus ell
| nance the gains of Industry by reducing the
cost of transportation and exchanges between
/ farmers and artisans-such is the inspiring
task to which the Nation now addresses itself
Il
progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
race. 10 this great and good work, The 1Fi-
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