New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-15
THE
New York Tribune
For 1879

The consolidation Of Italy, SO long frag- /
mentsry 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 and gay metropolis; the expulsion of the .
Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and the sub /
stitution for them of a 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 headshp of Prussia. into the triumph 7
snt and powerful empire of Germany; and the .
arming OF Russia to reassert her preponderance |
in the councils of Europe, or to pro ecute her /!
often postponed but never reinquished 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
tercst the ever.changlng phases OF our tdlngs
from the Old World. The Tribune through
trusted correspondents stationed ut all points in
Europe where great movements are IN progress
or imminent alma to present a complete and IN
structIvc panorama OF events on that continent, I
and to mirror the prolonged struggle between
niddlesse Feudalsm and Ecclesiasticistn on
the one hand and Nineteenth Century skeptTcism
and secularism on the other. Recognizing o
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 tor the toing masses OF mankind.
In our own country war upon corruption and
rasca!ity in Office has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State has
been revoiutonized through an initial triumph
OF Reform which surprises the most sangune
anticpations. 1t is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugursted cannot, in its pro
gress, be clrcumscribed to any locality any
party, bat that its purifying influence is destined
to be felt in every part of the Union, rebukug
venality, exposing robbery. wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and conGding it in those
worthiest and fttest to WELD it. TO this benei-
cent and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune
Will devote Its best energies, regardless of per-
soEa! interests or party predictions, esteemiDg
the choice of honest and faithful men to office
as of all New Departures the mos. 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 half
their by-gone intensity. However parties may
henceforth rise fall, it is clear that the funda-
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 fortets it by crime-such
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma
tona edfce and pslsied be the hand which
shall seek to displace them! Though not yet
| twenty years old, the Republican party has COM
! peted the noble fabric of Emancipation, and
may fairly invoke thereon the stcrnes. judgment
OF Man and the benignant smile of God.
| Henceforth, the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the weak
and humble from violence and oppression--to
extend the boundaries and diffuse the blessings
| of Civilization-to stimulate Ingenuity to the
production OF new inventions for eccnomisng
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
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