New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-04
THE
New York Tribune
For 1879.

The consolidation of Italy, so long frag.
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 capitulation of her
proud aud gay metropolis the expulsion of the
Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and the sub
stitution for them of q scion of the most liberal
among royal houses the virtual absorption of
the kingdoms OF Saxony, Wurttemberg, Bavaria,
with Baden, Hesse, the Hanse Towns, nc,
under the headship Of Prussia. into the triumph
ant and powerful empire of Germany; and the
arming of Russia to reassert her prcponderance
in the councils of Europe, or to prosecute her
often postponed but never reliuquished designs
on the great city founded by Constantine and the
vast but decaylng and anarchical dominion of the
Sultan, all combine to invest with profound in
terest the everchanging 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 complete and IN
structive panorama of events on that continent,
and to mirror the prolonged struggle between
middle-age Feudalism and Ecclesiasticism on
the one hand and Nineteenth, Century skepticism
and secularsm on the other. Recognizing a
Divine Providence in all that proceeds aud is, it
looks hopefully on the great conflicts as destined
like our own recent convulsion) to evolve from
strife, disaster, and seeming chaos, fairer and
happier future for the toiing masses ofm mankind.
In our own country n war upon corruption and
rascality IN Office has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State has
been revointionized through an initial triumph
of Reform which surprises the most sanguine
anticipations. 1t is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugurated cannot, in its pro.
gress, he circumscribed to any locality any
party, but that its purifying influence is destined
to be felt in every part of the Union, rehukinc
venality, exposing robbery, wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and contiding it in those
worthiest and fttest to WELD ii. TO this bencii-
cent and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune
will devote its best energies, regardless of per
sonal interests party predictions. esteon:ing
the choice of honest and faithful men to Office
as of all New Departures the most essential and
suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic party
of its hostility to Equal Rights, regardless Of
Color, has Invested our current politics of halt
henceforth rise or fall, it is clear that the iunda
mental principles which have hitherto honoraby
distinguished the Republicans are hencelurth Ia
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 a State 10 cnslave
any portion of its pcople-the duty Of the Union
to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoyment
of his liberty until he forfeits it by crime suct
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma
tional edfce and palsied be the hand which
shall seek TO dsplace them Though not YET
twenty years old, the Republican party has com
pleted the noble fabric of Emancipation, and
may fairly invoke thereon the sterncst Judgment
of Man and the benignant smile Of God.
Henceforth the mission of our Republic is
| one of Peaceful Progress To protect the wcal
and humble from violence and oppresSion--tC
extend the boundaries and difuse the blessings
of Civilization-to stimulate Ingenuity to The
production of new inventions for economisine
Labor and thus charging Producion-to draw
nearer to each other the producers of Food ant
| Of Fabrics, of Grains and Of Metals. and thu.
enhance the gains of Industry by reducing The
cost of transportation and exchanges between
farmers and artisans-such rs the inspiring tasl
to which this Nation now addresses itself, ant
by which it would fain contribute to the progress
enlightenment, and happiness of our race Ts
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