New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-04-17
New York Tribune.
1879,


be first OF all and pre- eminen,ly news paper.
France q Republc-Englani and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swayinc in the nerveless grasp Of ruler
too good for King and too weak for Repub-
lican, 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 asitated by new Protestant
ism. separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papal Iufallibili;y and assuming to
recognize the "0ld Catholics the whole Con.
tinent pervaied BY the intellectual fermeEt tina;
comes Of the conflict between old ideas. philo-
sophical, theological, material, and the advances
Of Physical Scieuce-Russia and Great Britain
running n race for the final gains that shall
determine Asia,ic supremacy-C China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and recose her
half opened gntes-Japan abolishing feudasm
and inviting Western civilization 10 irradiate
Western commerce TO enrich her louc.hidden
empire such are phases ofthe news from abroad
which the mails over all Continents and the
wires under all Seas are daily bearing TO us.
With able and trusted Correspondents in the
leading capitals, and wherever great changes are
in progress. THE TRIBUNE aims. at whatever
cost, to lay before Its readers the most prompt,
complete, and popular Preseniment of these
diverse and conflicting movemeuts-lhrough all
of which, as 1t tondiy trusts. the toiing masses
are everywhere struggling ~ to ward larger re-
Coghltlpu ana brighter future.
AT home the struggle for Freedom seems over
The last slave has long been citizen the last
opposition to emancipation, acknowledgements
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 uudOne; and, with
a whole people thus united on the grand plat
form OF All Rights for All. vhereto our bloody
struggle and the prolonged civil contests that
followed, have led us. the Republic closes the
records OF the bitter. hateful Past, and turns
peacefully, hopefully, to the less alarming be-
cause less vital problems Of the Future To
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