The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-24
THE
NEW YORK TRIB UN E,
FOI. 1879

mentary and impotent, into one powerful
State, with Rome as lis capital; the humili-
ating of France through series of crushing
defeats, ending with the siege and capitula-
ton of her prodd 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, Bal iria, with Baden,
Hesse, the Hanse Towns, ETC., under the
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
powerful empire of Germany; and the arm
ing of Russia to reassert her pfeponderance
in the Councils of EusVpe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never relinquished
designs ON the great el-y founded by Con-
stantine and the vast but decaying and an
archial 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 in progress
or imminent, aims to present complete and
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Ecclesi-
asticism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century skeptieism 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 convulsiOn) 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, a war upon eorruptiom
and rascality in office has been inaugurated
in our City, whereby the government of our
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine anticipations 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be circumscribed 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 confding it in those wOrthest
and fittest to WELD it. To this beneficent
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
ties 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 Repub-
licans are henceforth to be regarded as prac-
tically accepted by the whole country. The
/ right of every man to his own limbs and siII-
ews-the equality of all citizens before the
hw-the inability of State to enslave any
portion of its people-the duty of the UniGll
to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he forfcits it by
erime-such are the broad and firm founda-
| lions of our National eslifice and palsied be
| the hand that shall seek to displace them
Though not yet twenty years old, the Repuh
| liean 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.
Heneeforth the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
/ weak amt the ntlllltlt from violence anu OBJ
pressiOn--tO extend the boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings of Civilization-to stim1-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
ventions for economizing Labor and thus
eniarging Production-tO draw nearer to
each other the producers of Food and Fab
rics, of Grains and of Metals, and TINS en-
| hlnce the gains of Industry by reducing tho
cost of transportation and Exchanges between
| farmers and artisans-suclI is the inspiring
| task to which the Nation now addresses ITSELF
| andby which it would fain contribute to the
| progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
race. 70 this great and good work, The IFi-
| bHHe contributes its jealous persistent Efforts
Agriculture will continue to be more cs-
pecially elucidated i'll its Weekly and Semi
| Weekly editions, to which some of the ablest
and most successful tillers of the soil will
contribute. No farmer who sells $500 worth
of produce per annllm can afford to do with
out our Market Reports, or others equally
| lucid and comprehensive. If he should real
nothing else but what relates to his own call
/ ing and its rewards, we believe that no farm
er who can read at NIL can afford to do with
out such journal as The Tribune. And we
| aspire TO make it equally valuable to those
| engaged in other departments of Productive
Labor. I'VE spend more and more money on
our columns each year, as our countrymens
generous patronage enables us to do; and We
arc resolved that our issues of former years
shall be exceeded i'll varied excellence and
| interest by those OF 1917 Friends iii every
State help us to make our journal better
and better, by sending in your subscriptions
and increasing your Clubs for the year just
before us!
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.
| DAILY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers, $40 per
annum.
SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Mail Subscribers.
81 per annum Five copies or over 81
each; an extra copy will be sent for every
club of ten sent for at one time or, If pre-
ferred, a copy OF Recolleetions of Busy
Life, by Mr.. Greeley
TERMS OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
i To Mail Subscribers.
One copy, one year, 50 issues. SO
Five copies, one year, 50 issues,.--- o.
TO one address, all at one Post-office:
~ copies. seU eaeh.
20 copies 4 25 each.
80 copies, I 90 EACH
And one extra copy to each club.