New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-02
New York Tribune.
1879.


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France acknowledgement and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swaying 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 agitated by new Protestant.
ism, separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papal 1nfallibility and assuming to
recognize the ''Old Catholics''-the whole Con-
tinent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas, philo-
sophical, theological, material, and the advances
Of Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
cunning a race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatio supremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
half opened gates-Japan abolishing feudaism |
and inviting Western civilization to irradiate
Western commerce to enrich her long hidden |
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The last slave has long been a citizen; the last
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