New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-09
New York Tribune.
1879,

Now, as heretofore, The TRrBUSE strives to
be first OF all aud pre- eminently ners paper.
France a Republic-Englaad and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
spain swayiug in the nerveless grasp of q ruler
too good for a King and too weak for Repub-
iican, who is unable to govern the great island
that blocks the entrance TO our Gulf of Mexico
ard equally unable 90 give 1t up-the German.
speaking peoples agitated by new Protestant.
ism, separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma OF Papal lnfallibility and assuming to
recognize the ''Old Cathoics''-tbe whole Con
tinent pervaded by the intellectual fa-mant ina,
comes of the conflict between old IDEAS. milo
sophlcal, theological, material, and the advances
cf Physical Sclence-liussia and Great Britain
running n race for the final gains that shall
determine AsiatIc suprcmacy-Cbiua seeming
ready to abandon her advances and rscIose her
nan opened g2tes-Japan aboIshiHg feudalism
and inviting Western civilization to rradiate
Western commerce to enrich her loug-hiddeu
empire-such are phases ofthe news from abroad
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cognltlon and a brighter future
at home the struggle for Freedom seems over
Inc last slave has long been citizen the last
opposition to emancipation. enfranchisement,
equal civil rights, has been formally abandoned
NO party, North or South, longer disputes the
result of the v ar for the Union all declare that
these results must never be undone: and with
a whole people thus united on the grand plat.
form OF All flights for ALL whereto our bloody
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followed. have led u.s. the Republic closes the
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