The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-04-20
THE
NEW YORK TRIB UNE.
For 1872.


mentary and impotent, into enc powerful
State, with Rome as its capital; the hu1niE.
ating of France through series of crushing
defeats, ending with the siege and eapitula.
ton of her proud and gay metropolis the
expulsion of the Bourbons from the Spanish
throne and the substitution for them Of n
scion of the most liberal among royal houses.
the virtual absorption of the Kingdoms az
Saxony, Wurtemburg, Bavaria with Baden.
Hesse, the Haase Towns, ETC., under the
headship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
powerful empire of Germany; and the arm.
ing of Russia to reassert her preponderanea
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,
archial dominion of the Sultan, all combine
to invest with profound interest the ever
changing phases of our tidin@ from the Old
World. TIE 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.
tincnt, and to mirror the prolonged struggle
between middle-aged Feudalism and Eeelesi-
asticism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century sl1epticism and secularism 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 convulsion) to evolve from strife, dis.
aster, aud seeming chaos, a fairer and hap
pier future for the toiling masses of mankind.
In our own country, a war upon corruption
and raseality in Office has been inauguratad
in our City, whereby the government of our
State has been rcvolutionized through an in.
itial triumph of Reform which surpasses the
most sanguine anticipations 1t ia morally
certain that the movement thus inaugurated
cannot, in its progress, be eircumscribed 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 eonfiding it in those worthiesf
and fittest to wield it. To this benefcent
and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune 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 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 peli-
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 Repub-
leans are henceforth to be regarded as prae-
tically accepted by. the whole country. The
right OF every man TO his own limbs and GIN
ews-tlfe equality of all citizens before tho
law-the inability of q State to cnslave any
portion of its people-the duty of the Union
to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoy
ment of his liberty until he ferfeits it by
crime-sueh are the broad and firm founda-
lions OF our National edifice; and palsied be-
the hand that shall seek to displace them!
Though not yet twenty years old, the Rapub.
hcan 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 Ia
one OF Peaceful Progress. To protect the
weak and the humble from violence and on
pressien-to extend the boundaries and DIFF
fuse the blessings of Civilization--to stiluu-
late ingenuity to the production of new in
venfons Tor eeonomlzing 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 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,
andbY which it would tain contribute to the
progress, enlightenment and happiness of our
race. To this great and good work, The Tii-
o't1ac contributes its Jealous, persistent efforts
Agriculture will continue to be more es-
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anu most successful tillers of tho soil will
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nothing else but what relates to his own call
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out such a journal as The Tribune And we
aspire to make it equally valuable 10 those
engaged IN other departments of Productive
Labor: We spend more and more money on
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generous patronage enables us to do; md NO
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