Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-02-08
THE N. Y. TRIBUNE.

lllI IN. L. IIblD In u.
The consolidation of Italy, so long frag.
mentary and important, into one powerful
State, with Rome as its capital; the hu-
initiation of France through a series 81
crushing defeats, ending with the siege
and capitulation other proud and gay
metropolis; the expulsion of the Bour.
bons from the Spanish throne, and the
substitution for them ofan action of the
most liberal among royal houses; the vir-
taal absorption of the kingdoms of Saxo-
ny. Wurttemberg. Bavaria, with Banden.
Hose, the Hanse Towns, &c, finder the
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant
and powerful empire of Germany; and
the arming of Russia to rcassert her pre-
ponderance in the councils Of Europe, or
70 prosecute her often postponed but new
or relilqaished designs on the great city
founded by Constantine and the vast but
Seeaying and anarchical dominion of the
Sultan, all combine to invest with pro-
found interest the cver-charging phases of
cur tidings from the Old World. THE
TRIBuNE, through trusted correspondents
stationed ut all points in Europe where
great movements are in progress or emmi-
nent, aims to present a complete aud in
ssructiye panorama of events in the con-
uaeht, and to mirror the prolonged strug-
gle between middle-age Feudalism and
Eoelesiasticism on the one hand and Nine
teenth-C Century skepticism and secularism
on the other. Recognizing a Divine prov
idence in all hat proceeds and is. it looks
hopefully on the great conflicts as destined
qikc our own recent convulsion) to evolve
from strife. disaster, aud seeming chaos,
sfairer and happier future for the toiling
nzsses of mankind.
&In our own country. a war upon cor
ruption and rascality in Office has been
insngurated in our City, wherebythe gov
sfnment of our State has been revolution
lied through an initial triumph of Reform
winch surpasses the most sanguine antici-
patious. 1t is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugurated cannot, in its
progress, be circumscribed to any locality
Or any party, but that its purifying in
frence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union. rebuking venality, ex-
posing robbery, wrestling power from poll
ticians by trade, and coniding it in those
wortliest and fttest to WELD it. TO this
benefcent and vitality needed Reform,
TIE TRIBUNE will devote its best ener-
gies, regardless of personal interests or
party predictions, e%steeming the choice
Of honest and faithful men to Office as of
AL New Departures the most essential
and suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democrat
ie party of its hostility to Equal Rights
regardless of Color has Invested our cur
rent politics of half their bygone intensity.
However parties may henceforth rise or
Fall, it is clear that the fundamental prin-
ciples which have hitherto honorably dis
tnnguished the Republicans are henceforth
20 be regarded as practically accepted by
the whole country. The right of every
man to his W limbs and sinews-the
equality of all citizens before the law
the inability of a State to cnslaye any
portion of its people-the duty of the
Union to guarantee to every citizen the
full enjoyment of his liberty until he for
fetish by crime-such are the broad and
frm Foundations of our National edifce;
and palsied be the hand which shall seek
TO displace them! Though not yet TWEEN
ty years old, the Republican party has
completed the noble fabric of Emaneipa-
tion, and may fairly Invoke thereon the
~sternest Judgment of Man and the benig-
rant smile of God.
4zHenccforth, the mission of our Repub-
lie is one of Peaceful Progress. To pro-
tect the weak and the humble from VIC
lence and oppression extend the b5un-
daries aud difuse the blessings of Civ;liza-
tisn-to stimulate Ingenuity to the pro-
duetion of new Inventions for eeonomizing
labor and thus charging Production-to
nearer to each other tho producer of
Food and Of Fabrics, of Grains and of
Metals, and thus enhance the gains of In
dustry by reducing the cost Of t~ransporta-
tion and exchanges between farmers and
artisrns-sueh is the inspiring task to
Which this Nation now addresses itself,
aud by which it would fain contribute to
shs progress, enlightenment, and happi-
aess of our race. To this great aud good
work, THE TRIBUNE contributes its zeal
sss, persistent efforts. n
Agriculture will continue to be more
s~spsciAily elucidated in its Weekly and
and Semi-W Weekly editions, to which some
.L
e the ablest and most successful tillers Of
the soil will steadily contribute. No
fsfmer1who sells $500 worth of produce
per anpum can afford to do without our
Market Reports, or others equally lucid
sud comprehensive. If he should read
nething else but what relates to his own
saliing and its rewards, We believe that no
farmer who can read at all can afford to
da without such a journal as the TRIBUNE.
And NO aspire to make it equally valua-
he 20 those engaged in other departments
Of Productive Labor. We spend more
and more money on our columns each
ysar, rs our countrymen's generous pat
ronsge enables us to do and we are re-
solved that our next issues of former
years shall be exceeded in varied excel
and interest by those of 1S72.-
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journal better and better, by sending
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