Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-09-06
The Wing and Tribune---Its
Course,

The Wing and Tribune---Its
Course.
We are gratifed in being able to
announce to the friends of the WING
AND TRIBUNE, that despite the
burning of our splendid Office by
the late fire, our arrangements have
been perfected, whereby we will re-
sumo al an early day our original
size, with an improved appearance
in every respect.
We have bought a new Taylor
Power Press, our engine has been
made as good as new, and we will
soon roll off our mammoth edition,
Qarger than it ever was since the
consolidation by steam, thus keep
ing pace with the progress of the
times and the demands of our pa
irons. The advent of new papers
in our midst has not inundated or
discouraged US, on the contrary we
welcome them as live co-adjutors in
the development of our material re-
sources, and accept them as sure
harbingers of a better time coming.
A newspaper is badge of civiliza-
ton, and wherever it appears the
spectres of superstition, prejudice
and ignorance abandon their shad-
owy walks, and retreat into outer
darkness. The life and destiny of
this paper belong to no one man
and never did. 1t has reached it's
present stand, in the newspaper
world by the joint efforts of sever
al, and it is not likely to die because
one name is hauled down from its
masthead. Greedy is dead, but
the Tribune goes on; and Bennett
"sleeps with his fathers" and yet
the Herald survives, Prentice, too,
is gone from among the living, and
yet the Courier-J ournal is bright
er, fresher and more enterprising
than when even his magnificent ge-
MUS poured its lustre through its
columns. Since.the fire, the motto
of this paper has been a reduction
of expenses, to the end that we
might rest upon sounder financial
basis, and we have not hesitated to
obey the seripturai injunctIOn-"if
thy right hand offend thee cut it
of, /" and on this line we shall ope-
rate in the future, without refer
enee to the assumed rights of any
In regard to our political course,
we are not afraid to say, that we be-
long to the conservative party as
contradistinguished from Radical
lam, and we shall not eoquette with
the leaders Of an unprincipled or
ganization, either to smooth down
party asperities, to keep the peace,
nor because we may be confronted
in the fight, by self constituted Gin
tellectual giants" Against consoli-
dation, against corruption, against
the foes of constitutional liberty,
against that carpet-bag rule which
has made satrapies of independent
sovereign States, and which is caus-
ing good men to combine, to expel
hungry crews from the places of
trust which they befoul and plum
der, our voice will be lifted up in
the future not less earnestly than
IN the past, and yet we hopa we
may so write as to be understood,
without the use of those offensive
personalities, which belong 10 the
barbaric age of journalism, and
without that air of superciliousness,
or atfectation of superiority over
rivals, which, whilst it may evoke
contempt, can never elicit the ad-
miration, nor disturb the equanim-
ity of others bent on pursuing their
own course.
Thanking our patrons for past
favors, We shall always strive to
deserve them, and to increase the
circle of our friends by honest
blows in behalf of the right.