The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-04-27
THE
NEW YORK TRIBUNE,
For. 1872.


mentary and impotent, into one powerful
State, with Rome as its capital the humiI.
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
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 preponderanes
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her often postponed but never rehnquished
designs on the great city founded by Con-
stantine and the vast but decaying 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 complete AID
instructive panorama of events on that con-
tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between midd1e-aged Feudalism and Eeelesi-
astieism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century skeptieism and secularism on tho
other. Recognizing 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
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 our
State has been revolutionized through an in
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine anticipations. 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 venality, expos
ing robbery, Wrestling power from politicians
| by trade, and confiding it in those worthiest
and fttest to WELD it. To this benefeent
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 Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our eurrent poll
ties 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 Rcpub-
lieans are henceforth to be regarded as prae-
tieally accepted by the whole country. Tho
right of every man to his own limbs and sin
/ cWs-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 enjoy
ment of his liberty until he foFfeits il by
erime-sueh are the broad and firm founda-
tions of our National edifice and palsied be
the hand that shall seek to displace 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.
Heneeforth the mission of our Republic is
ono of Peaceful Progress. To protect tbs
weak and the humble from violence and OPP
pression--to extend the boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings of Civilization-to stimll-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
yentions for economzing Labor and thus
eniarging Production--to draw nearer to
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--such is the inspiring
task to which the Nation now addresses itself,
progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
race. To this great and good work. The ISi-
bt7le contributes its Jealous, persistent efforts
Agriculture will continue to be more es
pecially elucidated in its Weekly and Semi
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and most successful tillers 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
err who can read at all can afford to do with
out such journal as The Tribune And WI
aspire TO make it equally valuable to taost
engaged in other departments of Productive
Labor. We spend more and moro money or
our columns each year, as our countrymehi
generous patronage enables us to do; and ~
are resolved that our issues of former years
shall be exceeded in varied excellence ant
interest by those of 1872. Friends in ever,
State help us to make our journal bette
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