New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-12-04
New York Tribune.
1879.

Now, ss heretofore, Tue IRIBCSE strives 10
be first OF all and pre- eminen,ly nsnrs paper
France q Republic-Englsud and Germany
gradually permea,ed with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of ruler
too good for King aud too weak for 8 Repab-
hcan. Who is unable to govern the grea, island
that blocks the entrance TO our Gulf of Mexico,
and equally unable TO give it up-the German.
speaking peoples agitated by a new Protestant.
ISM separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papsl lufallibility and assuming TO
recognize the ''Old Catholic" whole Con
tinent pervaded BY the intellectual fernert tha,
comes Of the conflict between old ideas. rhilo-
sophcal, theological, material, and the advances
Of Physical Scieuce-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
| halt opened g5'es-Japau sbolishing feudasm
ard inviting Western civilization to irradiate
esteEn commerce to enrich her long hidden
ernpire-sgch are phases of the news from abroad
which the mails over all Continents and the
wires under all Seas daily bearing to u.s.
With able and trusted Correspondents in the
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in progress, HE fRIBCSE aims, st whatever
cost TO lay before its readers the most prompt
complete, and popular presen,ment of these
{ diverse and conflicting ovements-lhrough all
OF which, as 1t fondly trusts. the toiling masses
are everywhere struggling up toward larger re-
coenitinn and brighter future.
At home the struggle for Freedom seems over.
The last slave has long been citizen the last
opposition to emancipation. eufranchisement.
equal civil rights, has been formally abandoned.
! No party, North or South, longer disputes the
result of the Var for the Union all declare that
these results must never be uudone; and, with
whole people thus united on the grand plat.
form of All Rights for All, whersto our bloody
struggle, and the prolonged civil contests that
| followed, have led US, the Republic closca the
records of the bitter, hateful Past, sni .arns
peacefully, hopefully. to the leas alarming be-
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