New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-01-04
THE
New York Tribune



The consolidation of Italy, so long frag-
mentary and impotent, into one powerful State,
with Rome as its capital; the humiliation OF
France through a series of crushing defeats,
ending with the siege and capitulation of her
proud and gay metropolis; the expulsion of the
Bourbons from the Spanish throne, and the sub
stitution for them of scion of the most liberal
among royal houses; the virtual absorption of
the Kingdoms of Saxony, Wurttemberg, Bavaria,
with Baden, Hesse, the Hanse Towns, &C.,
under the headship of Prussia. into the triumph
ant and powerful empire of Germany; and the
arming of Russia to reassert her preponderance
in the councils OF Europe, or to prosecute her
often postponed but never relinquished designs
on the great city founded by Constantine and the
vast but decaying and anarchical dominion of the
Sultan, all combine to invest with profound in
terest the ever-chaDgng phases of our tidings
from the Old World. The Tribune, through
trusted correspondents stationed at all points In
Europe where great movements are in progress
or imminent, aims to present complete and IN
structive panorama of events on that continent,
and to mirror the prolonged struggle between
middle-age Feudalism and Eccesiasticism on
the one hand and Nineteenth Century skepticsm
and secularism on the other. Recognizing q
Divine Providence in all that proceeds and is, it
looks hopefully the great conflicts as destined
like our own recent convulsios) to evolve from
happier future for the toiling masses ofmankind.
In our own country war upon corruption and
rascaity in office has been inaugurated in our
City, whereby the government of our State has
been revoiutionzed through All initial triumph
of Reform which surprises the most sanguine
anticipations. 1t is morally certain that the
movement thus inaugurated cannot, in its pro-
gress, be circumscribed to any locality or any
party, but that its purifying influence is destined
to be felt in every part OF the Union, rebuking
venaljty, exposing robbery, wrestling power from
politicians by trade, and confdiug it in those
worthiest and fittest to WELD it. To this benef
cent and vitality needed Reform, The Tribune
will devote its best energies, regardless of per-
sonal interests or party predictions, esteeming
the choice of honest and faithful men to office
as of all New Departures the most essential and
suspicious.
The virtual surrender by the Democratic party
of it's hostility to Equal Rights, regardless of
Color, has Invested our current politics of half
their by-gone intensity. However parties may
hencetorth rise or fall it is clear that the funda
mental principles which have hitherto honorably
distinguished the Re licans are henceforth to
be regarded as prac iyaccepted 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 State to ensave
any portion of its people-the duty of the Union
to guarantee to every citizen the full enjoyment
are the broad and firm foundations of our Ma.
tlonsl edifice; and palsied be the hand which
shall seek to dlsplace them Though not yet
twenty years old, the Republican party has COM
pleted the noble fabric of Emancipation, and
may fairly invoke thereon the sternest Judgment
of Man and the bsnignant smile of God
Henceiorth, the mission of our Republic is
one OF Peaceful Progress. To protect the weak
and humble frsm violence and oppression-to
extend the boundaries and diffuse the blessings
of Civilization--to stimulate Ingenuity to the
production of new inventions for eccnomising
Labor and thus enlarging 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 transportation and exchanges bttween
farmers and artisans-such as the inspiring task
to which this Nation now addresses itself, and
by which IT would fain contribute to the progress,
enlightenment, and happiness of our race. To
this great and good work, The Tribune contrib.
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