The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-04-13
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Tor 1872.
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ating of France through n 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 preponderance
in the Councils of Europe, or to prosecute
her ofTenpostponed 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 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 hand and Nineteenth
! Century skeptieisrn and seculariam on the
other. Recognizing Divine Providence in
all that proceeds and is, it looks hopefully on
| the great conflict as destined tIike our own
recent convulsion) to evolve from strife, dis
aster, aud seeming chaos, fairer and hap
pier future for the toiing masses OF mankind
In our own country, a war upon corruption
and raseality in office has been inauguratcd
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 1t is morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be eircumseribed 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 confding it in those Horthicst
and fittest to WELD it. To this benefieens
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 current poll
ties of half their bygone intensity. However
parties may heneeforth 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-
tieally 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 enslave any
portion of its people-the duty of the Union
to guarantee 90 every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he forfeits il by
crime-such are the broad and firm founda-
tons OF our National cdifice; and palsied De
the hand that shall seek to displace them !
Though not yet twenty years DID, the Repub-
lcan 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 ID
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
weak and the humble from violence and OPP
pression-to extend the boundaries and diff
fuse the blessings of Civilization--to stimu-
late Ingenuity to the production of new in
NeIltlOnS IOF ecOHOlllZlQg LABOR ana thus
!. enlarging Produetion-to draw nearer to
each other the producers of Food and Fab
D ries, of Grains and of Metals, and thus en-
. nance the gains of Industry by reducing the
!, cost of transportation and exchanges between
f farmers and artisans is the inspiring
. task to which the Nation now addresses itself,
I andby which it would fain contribute to the
+ progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
!, race. 10 this great and good work, The 1Ti-
bitfae contributes IFS Jealous, persistent efforts.
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