Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-31
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
WING AND TRIBUNE.

Modestly yet truthfully we think
we can say that the WING AND
tribune is n social necessity with
the people of Jackson and Madison
County, and also with a large circle
of readers in West Tennessee and
Ia other portions of the country.
We base this assertion upon its cir
culation, and upon Gne strenuous
and pains-taking efforts we have
made, are making, and will contin-
ne to make, to render it the recOg-
nized organ of a healthy poll cal
and public sentiment in our portion
of the State. We fully realize
the great fact that the secret of sue
cess in any department of human
employment is work, constant, eX-
acting, unflagging work, and in pro-
portion to the judicious toll expend-
ed upon our paper we expect remu-
neration and character as Journal
lists, and no further.
AS political pamphleteers at this
critical juncture in the life OF an
imperiled Reptile, when the Rad
ical cyclone is straining the cables of
Constitutional government, we re-
cognize the dehcacy and difficulty of
our duties, and shall endeavor with
all the available lights before us, to
warn our countrymen of the dam
gers confronting them in their fed
eral, state or municipal affairs. We
do not yield to the despair of those
who believe our political expert
ment in the New World q failure,
we have faith in the ultimate future
of mankind, and as the clouds be-
gin to break, we wish to see the
people of Tennessee Just to them
selves, and shall protest against any
measures that we think are suicid-
al, unnecessary, and tending to riyet
the fctters that an INSCRIPTIONS
faction would fasten upon u.s. To
be plain and unmistakable, we nail
to our masthead the banner thrown
to the breeze at Nashville on the
10Th OF August, containing essen
TALLY the following tenets of our
political faith.-The just reward of
honest labor the equalization of
the burden of government on all
property-the restriction of FEEDER
al authority to powers delegated or
clearly implied in the Constitution
the destruction of monopolies op-
pressive to the people-the aboli-
duction of all eXorbitant salaries
rigid economy in the State govern
ment-refOrms in the law so as to
render its execution speedy and GER
tain-a close accountability by rev.
enue othcers-a restriction of taxa
tion to the inevitable necessities of
the State government and the main
tainance OF its credIt-the abolition
of the National Banking system as
now existing-the regulation of the
currency so that the people may
have cheap and good money, based
upon the credit of the government
the repeal of the grinding mo-
nOpoly known as the present Fed
erai Tariff and the enactment of one
for revenue alone, and unalterable
opposition to all legislation like the
proposed Civil Rights Bill, on the
ground that it is unconstitutional,
and intended only to harrass and de-
grade the people.
IL will be the object of the WING
AND TRIBUNE to harmonize, in
stead of antagonizing races and
classes. AS to the recently enfran-
chised people in our midst, we will
ever recognize by word and deed.
to the fullest extent their essential
rights of citizenship, while at the
same time we will denounce and
oppose TO the bitter end all
the factious and unprincipled leg
islation, that seeks to violate the
immutable laws of nature, to
outrage the social prophecies of
life, and which will arrest the
generous tendency on the part of
the white race of the South TO edu-
cate, 10 humanize and christianize
the blacks. To the honest and hon
orable stranger, no matter whether
he come to us from the North or
from beyond the seas, who is here
to share our fortunes and deyelop
our industries, we have words of
welcome and encouragement. For
the knaves and political vagabonds.
who salamander-like, live only in
the fire of race animosities we have
neither truce nor liberation.
Apart from the political discus-
sions in which the WIG AND TRI-
BUNE Will necessarily be involved
the task OF getting up a readable
newspaper, will be met as we think
its importance demands. We will
endeavor to make our paper a fun /
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