New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-08-21
New York Tribune.
1879.


be FIRST OF all and pre- eminently 8 Retrs paper.
France a Republic-England and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swsying in the nerveless grasp Of a ruler
too good for King and too weak for Bepuh
hcan, who is unable 20 govern the great island
that blocks the entrance TO our Gulf OF Mexico,
and equally unable to give il up-ihe German.
speaking peoples agitated By rev Protestant
ism. separating from the See Of Rome on the
dogma of Papa lnfslibilj,y and assuming TO
recognize the "Old Catholics the whole Con
7 tinent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas. philo.
sophIcal, theological, material, and the advances
I Of Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running a race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiaiic SupremaCy-China seeming
( ready 70 abandon her advances and rcclose her
I half opened gates-Japan abolShIng :eEislism
and Inviting Western civilization 10 rradiate
4 Western commerce to enrich her ouE-hIdden
/ empire-sueh are phases ofthe news from abroad
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| are everywhere struggling M to ward larger re-
cogntion and brighter future.
! At home the struggle for Freedom seems over.
The last slave has long been a citizen the las,
: opposition to emancipation, enfranC hjsemeut.
! equal civil rights, has been formally abandoned.
Nc party, North or South. longer disputes the
, result of the War for the I mon all declare that
these results must never be undone: and, with
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 u.s. the Republic closes the
records of the bitter, hateful Past, ani turns
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