New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-15
THE TRIBUNE DURING THE CAMPAIGN

THE TRIBUNE DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
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a party organ but it is ardently enlisted in
the contest now waging for Civil Service he
form and for One Presidential Term as essen
tial to that Reform. 1t accepts the Cincinnati
Platform as a terse and a forcible exposition
of the political right and wrong, the needs
and hopes of To-Day, and looks hopefully 10
Universal Amnesty as essential to the restora-
ton of genuine fraternity between North
and South, and of mutual confidence and good
will between White and Black. 1t believes
the People are preparing to break the rusty
shackles of mere bygone partisanship, ana IL
hopes for a result next November whlcn Will
cheer and strengthen the champions OF feace
and Good VIII. 1t will issue no campaign
edition, but proffers to all who believe It's
further diffusion may serve the Good cause
its regular editions at the lowest possinD
prices.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic
party of its hostility to Equal Rights regard
less of Color has Invested our current politics
of half their bygOne intensity. However par
ties may henceforth rise OF fall, it is clear
that the fundamental principles which have
hitherto honOrably distinguished the Republic
cans are henceforth to be regarded as pracd-
cally accepted by the whole country. The
right of every man to his own limbs and
sinews-the equality of all citizens before the
law-the inability of a 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 forfeits it by
crime-such are the broad and firm founda-
tons of our National edfce and palsied be
the hand which shall seek to dispace them!
Though not yet twenty years old, the Repub-
lican party has completed the noble fabric of
Emancipation, and may fairly invoke thereon
the sternest Judgment of Man and the benlg-
nant smile of God.
Henceforth the mission of our Republic is
one of Peaceful Progress. To protect the
weak and the humble from violence and
oppression-to extend the boundaries and diff
| fuse the blessings of Civilizaton-to stimulate
| Ingenuity to the production of new inventions
for ecOnomizing Labor and thus enlarglng
Production-tO draw nearer to each other the
producers of Food and of Fabrics, of Grains
and of Metals, and thus enhance the gains OF
Industry by reducing the cost of transporta-
ton and exchanges between farmers and
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