New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-12
New York Tribune.
1873.

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Franco Republie-England and Germany
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of a ruler
too good for King and too weak for Repub,
lican, who is unable TO govern the great island
that blocks the entrance 10 our Gulf of Mexico,
and equally unable TO give it up-the German
speaking peoples agitated by a new Protestant
dogma of Papal Infallibility and assuming to |
recognize the ''Old Ca-holicsn-the whole Con-
tinent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas, philo- |
sophical, theological, material, and the advances |
of Physical Science-Bussia and Great Britain |
running race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-China seeming |
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
half opened gates-Japan abolishng feudalism
and inviting Western civilization to irradiate |
Western commerce to enrich her long-hldden
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