New-York tribune., 1873-01-03
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1878.

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years OF patient and costly preparation, for
the collection Of intelligence in every quarter.
France a Repubic-England and Germany gradually
permeated with Republican ideasSpain swaying in the
nerveleSs grasp ruler good for King and too
weak for a Republican, who is unable TO govern the
great island that blocks the entrance to our Gulf OF
Mexico, and equally unable TO give it upthe German
speaking peoples agitated by a Professionalism
separating from the See OF Rome the dogma of Papal
Inalbity and assuming to reorganize the "Old Catho
lies the whole Continent peryaded by the intellectual
ferment that Of the conflict between old IDEAS
philosophical theological material and the advances oil
Physical science-Russia and Great Britain running
race final gains that shall determine Asatic su-
premacy-China seeming ready 20 abandon her ad'
vances and recoso her halfopened gatesJapan abol-
ihing feudalismi and inviting Western civilization to
irradiate Western to enrich her longhdden
empire-such phases of the news from abroad which
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great changes in progress, Tue TRIBUNE AIMS at
whatever cost, to lay before its readers the most
prompt, complete and popular prosentment OF these
diverse and conflicting movements,-through all OF
which, fondy trusts the toiling masses are every
where struggling up toward larger recognition ana
brighter future.
At home the struggle for Freedom seems over The
last slave has long been citizen the last opposition to
emancipation, enfranchsement, equal civil rights, has
been formally abandoned No party, North or South,
longer disputes the result Of the War for the Union all
declare that these results must be undone and
with whole people thus united the grand platform
IF All Rights for All, wheretO our bloody struggle and
the prolonged civil contests that followed have led u.s.
the Republic closes the records Of the bitter, hateful
Past and peacefully, hopefully, to the less alarm
ing because less vital problems Of the Future. To what
eucidate the general discussion OF action ON
.hese THE TRIBUNE gives amplest space and most im-
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,e so far as its editors and propretOrs have the
ibihty 90 make it, what Horace Greeley would have
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UNE which fought bravelY for human freedom, for
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