Year: 1867



 tial Human Liberty. The war of the Re bellion being closed, we have now to decide whether the fundamental idea which im- i peiied snd justified the Rebellion shall dominate over tke whole country, molding her institutions and shaping her destiny. ! If it be true that God has not created all 1 men. but only White men. in His own inn age. and made them equal in oltical and ] civil rights, then it is worldwide calami i ty that Grant did not surrender to Lee st 1 Appomattox; and ''The Lost Cause" trod- den into mire under the hoofs of Sheridan's rough-riding cavalry, not only should but will be regained in Constitutional Conven- tions and at the ballot-boxes. If the Black race, because they are Black, should be ex- cluded from the jury box and repeIle.l from the the ballot-box, then Stonewail Jackson ought to head the roll of American martyrs emblazoned high above the names of War ren and Mercer and Pulaski; of Ellsworth, ny, Sedgwick and McPherson.

 It is difficult to argue with blind be- sotted prejudice, grounded in ignorance and fortified by self-conceit Devoid of reason, 1t Is hardly amenabie to reason. But millions who would listen unmoved to appeals based on Justice and Humanity can be stirred by facts which affect their own interest and safety. The naked truth ! that every Southern State reconstructed on the White basis IS to day Rebel State shaped and ruled by men who execrated Lincoln's reluctant and tardy resistance to the Rebellion SIS causeless and criminal aggression, and profoundly rejoiced over Bull Run as their victory-wiil prove lnyin- cible, if we can but bring it homo to the apprehension of every loyal voter There Is no paramount question of good faith or gratitude to the Blacks. Their votes are as necessary to the prepon 1erance of White 1 loyalty as to their own protection and se- curity. Reconstruct the South on the 1 White basis, and every one or the fifteen States which held slaves in 1860 will be in tersely, overwhelmingly Copperhead thenceforth and evermore. Allow to- day the ] plea that the Blacks are ignorant and de- graded, and those whom you thereby clothe with power will take good care that the l plea shall be as valid and we'll grounded 0 century hence as it nowis. Public Educa- ton and Civil Rights for the Freed men can only be achieved and main tained 1 Suffrage-the acGy they suffered ia Nesc Or leans, was the inscription on @ banner borne in a late Conservative or Democratic procession in Baltimore; and the spirit which dictated that avowal is still rampant ill the South. But for what is stigmatized as Military Despotism, it would daily avenge by outrage and infiiction what it deems negro treachery to the Southern cause.

 THE TRIBUNE has declined to be lured or turned aside from the Maln Question. It has consistently refused to swell the clam or for vengeance on the defeated Rebels whether by execution or by confscation; and one of its strong reasons for this course 1 is conviction that no drop of Rebel blood could be cooly, deliberately shed without essentially clouding the prospect of secur- i ing the Right of Suffrage to the Blacks. Defying the madness of passion and the blindness of short-sighted misconception, it has demanded Reconstruction on the basis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial Suff- rage, in perfect consciousness of the fact that it therebyialienated thousands who had been its jealous supporters and lifelong patrons The hour of its complete vindi- cation cannot be far distant.

 As for the man who is to be the chosen 1 standard-bearer of the Republican host in the impending contest while we avow our deliberate preference of Chief Justice Chase as the ablest and most eminent of our living statesmen, THE TRIBUNE will render hearty, cheerful, determined sup port to Gen. Grant, or Senator Wade, or Speaker Colfax, should he be nominated and supported on a platform which affirms and upholds the equal political as well as civil rights of all citizens of the Republic. We do not contemplate as possible the SUD- port by Republicans of any candidate who l does not stand on this platform And we do not apprehend that the candidates who, in our approaching struggle, shall repre- sent genuine Democracy in opposition to 1 the meanest phase or Aristocracy can be beaten if proper means be systematically 1 taken, as they must and will be, to enlight- en and arouse the American people.

 We will thank such friends as believe that THE TRIBUNE will prove an efficient and cheap way to influence the undecided, to aid us in extending its circulation. Though ours is eminenently a political journal, but small portion of its space is devoted to politics. while an outlay of more than $2OO, 900 per annum is incurred in col lecting and transmitting news from all parts of the world. We have regular correspon- dents at nearly all the capitals of Europe with director at London who is authoriz- 1 ed to dispatch special correspondents to all points where important events may at any time be transpiring or iminent. The progress of the war in Crete. which is the precursor of Q still greater war, has been watched by one of these special correspon- dents while another telegraphs from Con- stantinople each novel phase of the critical diplomatic situation. Every step of Gari- baldi's recent heroic though unfortunate enterprise, rom its inception to it's close, was noted by our correspondents, who are also his most trusted advisers; while an es- teemed member of our editorial staff has just accompanied the Ambassador of Juar- ez to Mexico to scan the Mexican problem closely, and under auspices more favorable to the Republican chief than those which have colored the advices of our regular cor 1 respondents at Vera Cruz and the Capital. Another correspondent accompanied the first National expedition to Alaska, Wal russia, or whatever our splinter of the North Pole may be called, and is now re- porting on the aspects and capabilities of that chilly region. Bayard Taylor is wri- ting us in his own vein from Central Flu rope; while able correspondents report to us from Colorado. Idaho, Montana. Sc.

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