New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-25
New York Tribune.
1879.

Now, as heretofore, ht ihAhN ~ sNt'f' ~
be srst OF al and pre- eminently netrS paper.
France a Republic England Eud Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas -
Spain swAying in the nervelesS grasp al ruler
too good for a King and too weak for a Hepub.
lcan. who is unable ~ govern the great island
that blocks the entrance to our Cult Ot Mexico
and equally unable to give II up-ths German
speaking peoples agitated by a new Protestant
ism. separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papsl lnfallibihy and assuming 10
. recognize the ''Old Catholics the whole Con
tin-~t pervaded by the intellectual Torment That
comes Cf the conflict between Old ideas. rh'in-
+ sophical theological. material. ard the advances
. Of PHYSICAL ScienCe-Russia and Great Britain
running a race for the ina! gains that shall
determine Asia,ic supremacy China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reC.0 beer
halt opened ggtes-Japan abu!lshJng teudsllsm
and inviting Western civilization To- ir-ad5s'e
Western commerce to enrich her ,ouL-h,adnu
3 empire such are phases of the news frnT abroad
/ which the mails over all Continents and the
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With able and trusted Correspondent, m the
leading capitals. and wherever great cham YES ar
in progress, THE rEIRUNE aims. at whatever
cost, to lay before its readers the most prompt,
complete, and popular preseutmrut of these
diverse and conflicting movements through all
of which, it fondiy trusts. the tuling masses
are everywhere struggling up oy.ri larger re-
cognition and brighter future.
Al nome the struggle Tor TEtttlIiil seems over
The last slave has long been citizen the last
opposition 10 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 undonc. aud, with
a whole people thus united on the grand plat
form of All Rights for AL whereto our bloody
struggle, and the prolonged civil contests that
followed, have led us, the Republic closes the
records of the bitter, hateful Past. aud turns
peacefully, hopefully. TO the less alarming be
cause less vital problems of the Future To
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