The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-01-06
THE
NEW. YORK TRIBUNE,
For. 1872.

nentary and impotent, into one powerful
State, with Rome as its capital the humil,
ating of France through a 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
scion of the most liberal among royal houses
the virtual absorption of the kingdoms Of
Saxony, Wurtemburg, Bavaria with Baden,
Hesse, the Harse Towns, etc, under the
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 deeaying and an
arehial 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 a complete and
instructive panorama of events on that con-
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middleaged Feudalism and Ecclesi-
asticism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century skepticism and secuIarism 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 eonvulsion) to evolve from strife, dis
aster, aud seeming chaos, fairer and hap
pier future for the toiling 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 eur
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine antieipations. 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be circumscribed to
any locality or any party, but that its puri-
flying influence is destined to be felt in every
part of the Union, rebuking yenality, expos
ing robbery, wrestling power from politicians
by trade, and confding it in those worthcst
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. b
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our current poll
tics of half their bygone intensity. However
80 M
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto honorably distinguished the Repuh-
| lieans are henceforth to be regarded as pfac
tically accepted by the whole country. The
right of every man to his own limbs and sin
ews-the equality of all citizens before the
law-the inability of State to enslaye anT
portion of its people-the duty of the Union
| to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he forfeits it by
crime--such are the broad and firm foundn4
tons of our National edifice: and palsied be-
the hand that shall seek to dispiace tiieTn!
Though not yet twenty years old. the Rapub-
lican party has completed the noble fabric OF
Emancipation, and may fairly invoke there
on the sternest Judgment of Man and tho 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 amt up
4 pression-to extend the boundaries and diff
! fuse the blessings of Civihzation--to stiInli-
late Ingenuity to the production of new iI,-
| ventions for economizing Labor and thus
! enlarging Produetion--to draw nearer 10
each other the producers of Food and Fab
RIGS, of Grains and of Metals, and thus en-
nance the gains of Industry by reducing the
cost of transportation and exchanges between
farmers and artisans-sueh Is tho inspiring
task to which the Nation now addresses itself,
and by which it would fain contribute to this
progress, enlightenment and happiness OF opr
race. To this great and good work, The Tn
bitHe contributes its Jealous, persistent eff,Irts
Agriculture will continue TO be more es-
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and most successful hllerS Of the soil will
contribute. No farmer who sells $500 worth
of produce per annum can afford to do With
out our Market Reports, or others equally
lucid and comprehensive. IF he should read
nothing else but what relates to his own call
ing and its rewards, we believe that no farm
er who can read at all can afford to do with
out such a journal as The Tribune. And We
aspire to make it equally valuable to those
engaged in other departments of Productive
Labor. We spend more and more money on
our columns each year, as our eountrymen Is
generous patronage enables US to do; and we
| are resolved that our issues OF fDrsnef years
shall be exceeded in varied excellence aud
interest by those of 1872. Friends in every
State help us to make cur journal better
and better. by sending in your subscriptions
and increasing your Clubs for the year just
before us i
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