New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-30
New York Tribune.
1879.

be first Of all and pre- eminenily Hetrs paper.
France a RepubIie-Eugland and Germany
gradually pcrmca;ed with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the uerveless grasp OF ruler
too good for King and too weak for Rep1b-
lcan. who is unable to govern the great island
that blocks the entrance to our Gulf of Mexico,
and equally unable to give it up-the German
speaking peoples agiiated BIZ new Protestant
ism, separating from the See Of Rome on the
dogma OF Papal Infaliibiliiy and assuming TO
recognize the ''Old Catholics the whole Con
iinent rerTaded By the intellectual ferment that
comes Of the conflict between old ideas. philo-
sophica, theological. material, and the advances
Of Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running n race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatlc suprcmacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
halt opened gates-Japan abolishing teudailsm
and inviting Western civilization to rradiate
Western commerce to enrich her loug-hldden
empre-suc are phases the news from abroad
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/ coguition and brighter future.
| At home the struggle for Freedom seems over.
| The last slave has long been citizen; the last
| opposition to emancipation, entranChiScment.
| 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 never be uudonc; and. with
a whole people thus united on the grand plat
form of All Rights for All, whereto our bloody
struggle, and the prolonged civil contests that
| followed, have led rs, the Republic closes the
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