The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-02-24
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YORK TRIBUNE.
For 1872.

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mentary and i1npotent, into one powerful
State, with Rome as its capital; the huluiii.s
ating of France through series of crushing
defeats, ending with the siege and eapituIa
ton of her proud and gay metropolis; the
expulsion of the Bourbons from the Spanish
throne, and the substitution for them Of s
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 tAsE
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
powerful empire of Germany and the arm.
ing of Russia to reassert her preponderanee
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never reiinquished
designs on the great city founded by Con-
stantiAe 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 aud
instructive panorama of events on that con
tinent and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Eecles.
astieism ON the one hand and Nineteenth
Century skeptieism and secularisn 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 eonyulsion| to evolve from strife, dis
aster, aud seeming chaos. a fairers and hap
pier future for the toiling masses OF mankind.
In ourown country, a war upon corruption
and rascality in office has been inaugnratel
in our City, whereby the government of our
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine antieipations. It is snorals
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be circumseribed to
any locality or any party, but that its puri-
flying influence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union, rebulxing venality, expos
| ing robbery, Wrestling power from politicians
by trade, and confding it in those worthiest
| and fttest to WELD it. TO this beneficent
and vitally needed Reform, The 7Iibsn.e 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 Departures the most es-
sental and suspicious. .9s
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard .
less of Color has Invested cur current poll
tics of half their bygone intensity. However
parties may henceforth rise or fall, it is eloar
that the fundamental principles ~hich. have
hitherto honorably distinguished the Repuh-
j licans are henceforth to be regarded as prae-
1 tieally accepted by the whole country The
/ right of every man to his own limbs and sin, I
| ews-the equality of all citizens before tha
4 law-the inability of a State to enslFxe aass
/ portion ofits people--tlle duty of the Union
| to guarantee to every citizen the fun enjoy
i ment of his liberty until he forfeits it by
erime-such are the broad and firm fostiida-
tions of our National edifec and palsiel he
! the hand that shall seek to displace them
| Though not yet twenty years old, the Rapuh-
| lican party has completed the noble fabric OF
| Emancipation and may fairly invoke there
/ on the sternest Judgment of Man and the be-
ngnant smile OF God
Heneefofth the mission of our Republic Is
/ one of Peaceful Progress 10 protect the
weak and the humble from violence and OPP
Il pression--to extend the boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings of Civfiization-to stiinn-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
yenti0ns for economizing Labor and thus
enlarging Produetion--to draw nearer ftI
each other the producers of Food and Fab
ries, of Grains and of Metals, and thus eI
nance the gains of Industry by reducing the
cost of transportation and exchanges between
II farmers and artisans-sueh is the inspiring
task to which the Nation now addresses itself,
andby which it would fain contribute to tho
Il progress, enlightenment aud happiness of our
race. To this great and good work, The Fri.
bttne contributes its Jealous, persistent efforts
Agriculture will continue to be more es-l
peeially elucidated in its Weekly and. Semi
Weekly editions, to which some of the ablest
and most successful tilIers of the soil will
contribute No farmer who sells $500 worth
of produce per annuln can afford to do with
out our Market Reports, or others equally
| lucid and comprehensive. II he should read
nothing else but what relates to his own eaIl-
ing and its rewards, we believe that no farm
, er who can read at all can afford to do with
: out such journal as The Tribune. And We
aspire TO make it equally valuable to those
engaged in either departments of Produetiva
: Labor. We spend more and more money on
our columns each year, as our country mems
generous patronage enables us to do; and We
are resolved that our issues of former years
shall be exceeded in varied excellence and
interest by those of 1872. Friends in every
State help us to make our journal better
anu DeIbeFy by sendlilg III your suDScf1pEOnN
s and increasing your Clubs for the year just
before us
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