New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-23
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
ending with the siege and captulation of her
proud and gay metropolis; the expulsion OF the
Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and the sub.
stitutiou for them of scion of the most liberal
among royal houses; the virtual absorption of
the kingdoms of Saxony, Wurttemberg, Bavaria,
under the headship of Prussia, into the triumph
ant and powerful empire of Germany; and the
arming of Russia to reassert her preponderance
in the councils OF Europe, or to prosecute her
often postponed but never relinquished designs
on the great city founded by Constantine and the
vast but decaying and anarchical dominion OF the
Sultan, all combine to invest with profound in.
terest the ever.changing phases of our tdings
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
middlc-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 and is, it
looks hopefully on the great conflicts as destined
like our own recent convulsion) to evolve from
strife, disaster, and seeming chaos, tairer and
happier future for the toiling masses humankind
In our own country war upon corruption and
rascality in Office has been iuaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State has
been revolutionized 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, be circumscribed to any locality or any
party but that its purifying influence is destined
to be felt in every part of the Union, rebuking
venality, exposing robbery, wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and coniding it in those
worthest and fttest to WELD it. To this benef-
cent and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune
will devote its best energies, regardless of per.
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 o.
Color, has Invested our current politics of hall
their by-gone intensity. However parties may
henceforth rise or fall, it is clear that the funda
distinguished the Republicans are henceforth to
be regarded as practically accepted by the whole
country. The right of every man to his owl
limbs and snews-the equality of all citizen:
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 forfets it by crime-sucl
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma
tional edifce and palsied be the hand which
| shall seek to displace them! Though not ye
twenty years old, the Republican party has com
pleted the noble fabric of Emancipation, anC
may fairly invoke thereon the sternest judgmen
of Man and the benignant smile Of God.
| Henceforth, the mission of our Republic j.
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and humble from violence and oppression-tt
extend the boundaries and diffuse the blessing
of Civilizaton-to stimulate Ingenuity to thu
| production of new inventions for economsin!
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enhance the gains of Industry by reducing thu
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