The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-07-06
THE
NEW YORK TRIB UNE,
For 1872.

mentary and impotent, into one powerful
State, with Rome as its capital; the humil:-
ating of France through series of crushing
defeats, ending with the siege and capitula-
ton of her proud and gay metropolis; the
expulsion of the Bourbons from the Spanish
throne, and the substitution for them of a
scion of the most liberal among royal houses;
the virtual absorption of the kingdoms of
Saxony, Wurtemburg, Bavaria, 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 prepOnderance
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never relinquished
designs on the great city 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 Ea-
rope where great movements are III progress
or imminent, aims to present a complete and
instructive panorama of events on that con-
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Ecclesi-
asticism on the one land and Nineteenth
Century skeptieism and secularism ON the
other. Recognizing a 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
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pier future forthe toiing masses of mankind.
In our own country, a war upon corruption
and rascality in office has been inaugurated
in our City, whereby the government of cur
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sangltine antieipations 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be cireumscribed 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 confiding it in those worthiest
and fittest to WELD it. To this benefcent
and vitality needed Reform. The Tribune viii
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 Democrats
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our current poll
tics of half their bygone intensity. However
parties may henceforth rise or fall it is clear
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto honorably distinguished the Repub
lieans are henceforth to be regarded as prac-
ticaliy accepted by the whole country. The
right of every man to his own limbs and sim
ews--the equality of all citizens before tho
/ law-the inability of a State to enslave any
portion of its people-the duty of the Union
! to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoy
inent of his liberty until he forfeits it by
| crime-such are the broad and firm fOunda-.
lions of our National edifice and palsied DO
| the hand that shall seek TO tlisplace them!
Though not yet twenty years old, the Repub-
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.
Henceforth the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
weak and the humble from violence and op-
pression--to extend tie boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings OF Civilization-to stimu-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
i yentions for economizing Labor and thus
enlarging Production-tO draw nearer to
! each other the producers of Food and Fab
RIGS of Grains and of Metals, and thus on
| nance the gains of Industry by reducing tho
cost of transportation and exchanges between
farmers and artisans-such is tile inspiring
task to which the Nation now addresses itself,
xgla fas1a ilA.Vfs
progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
race. To this great and good work, The Iii-
o"ae contributes ITS Jealous, persistent efforts.
pec;,lly elucidatetl in its Weekly and Semi.
Weekly editions, to which some of the ablcss
and most successful tillers of the soil will
eei,'rd5 5. No ialn'er VINO selas sooo wer.a
ont our Market Reports. or Others equally
lucid and comprehensiye. If he shoul1 ren.
Z nothing else but what relates to his own call
ing and it's rewards, we believe that no farm