New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-08
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New York Tribune
For 1879.


with Rome as its capital the humiliation of
France through series of crushing defeats,
ending with the siege and capitulation of her
proud and gay metropolis; the expulsion Of the
Bourbens from the Spanish throne, and the sub.
stitutioa 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 preponderance
in the councils of Europe, or to prosecute her
often postponed but never relinquished designs
or the great city founded by Constantine and the
vast but decaying and anarchcal dominion of the
Sultan, all combine to invest with profound in
tercst the cvcr-changng phases of our tidings
from the Old World. The Tribune, through
trusted correspondents stationed at all points in
Europe where great movements arc 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 Feudalism and Ecclesasticism on
the one hand and Nineteenth. Century skepticism
and secularism on the other. Recognizing
Divine Providence in all that proceeds and is, it
looks hopefully on the great conflicts rs destined
Qike our own recent convulsion) to evolve from
strife, disaster, and seeming chaos, tairer and
happier future for the toling masses ofmankind
In our own cOuntrya war upon corruption and
rascality III Office has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State has
been revolutionized through an initial triumph
OF Reform which surprises the most Sanguinc
anticipations. 1t is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugurated cannot, in its pro-
grcSs, be circumscribed to any locality or any
party, but that its purifying influence is destined
to be jeit in every part of the Union, rebuking
venality, exposing robbery, wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and conlidins it in those
worthest and fittest to WELD it. TO this bcnci-
cent and vitality needed Reform. The Tribune
will devote its best energies, regardless of per
sOnal interests or party predictions esteeming
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 half
their bygone intensity. However parties may
henceforth rise fall, it is clear that the flnda-
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 iorfeits it by crme--such
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma
tional cdiGce; and palsied be the hand which
shall seek to displace them Though not vet
pletcd the noble fabric of Emancipation, and
may fairly invoke thereon the sternest judgment
of Man and the benignant smile of God.
Hcnceforth, the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the weak
and humble from violence and oppresson-to
extend the boundaries and diifuse the blessings
of Civilization-to stimulate Ingenuity to the
production of new inventions for economising
Labor and thus charging Production-to draw
nearer to each other the 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 which it would fain contribute to the progress,
enlightenment, and happiness of our race. To
this great and good work, The Tribune contrib
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varied excellence and interest by those of 1872
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