The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-02-17
THE
NEW YORK TRIB UNE.
For 1872.

defeats, ending with the siege and capitular
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
Saxeny, Wurtemburg, Bavaria, .withtRsden,
Hesse. the Hanse Towns, etc, under the
heaaship of Prussia, into the triumphant and
powerful empire Of Germany and the arm
ing of Russia to reassert her preponderanee
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 tidings from the Old
World. The Tribune, through trusted cor
respondents stationed at all points Ia Eur
rope where great movements are In progress
or imminent aims to present q complete and
instructive panorama of events on that con
| tinent, and to mirror the prolonged struggle 5
between middle-aged Feudalis1n and Ecclesi-
asticism on the one hand and Nineteenth
Century skepticism and seeularism 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, flirer 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 revelutionized 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 OF 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 wortlliest
and iittest to WELD it. To this beneficcnt
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 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 Repuh-
lieans are henceforth to be regarded as prac-
ticaliy 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 pcople-the duty of the Union
to guarantee to every citizen the full eilioy-g
ment of his liberty until he forfeits it BY
erime-sueh are the broad and firm foundil-
tions of our National edifiee; and palsed be
the hand that shall seek to dislIaee them !
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 the be-
nignant smile8of God.
Henceforth the mission of our Republic il
one of Peaceful Progress. TO protect the
weak and the humble from violence and oiI-i
pression-to extend the boundaries and DIFF
fuse the blessings of Ciyilization-to stiInu-
late Ingenuity tothe production of new in
yentions for ccOnomiZing Labor and thus
enlarging Production-t0 draw nearer to
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