New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-01-15
New York Tribune.
1879.

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FRANCE Republic-England and German
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of rule
too good for King and too weak for Repub
iican, who is unable to govern the great islam,
that blocks the entrance TO our Gulf of Mexico
ana equally unable to give it up-the German
speaking peoples agitated by new Protestant
Ism, separating from the See of Rome on tn,
dogma. OF Papal lnfallibiity and assuming tC
recognize the .'Old Ca'holics'-the whole Con
hnent pervaded by the intellectual ferment thai
comes or the conflict between old ideas. phio
sophical, theological, material, and the advance:
OF Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that shall
| determine Asiatic upremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and rcclose her
matt opened gates-Japan aholishing teudalism
ana inviting Western civilization to irradiate
| western commerce to enrich her long. hidden
emplre-such are phases oftbe news from abroad
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cognition and a bright r future.
49,, AT home the struggle for Freedom seems over
lhe last slave has long been a citizen the las'
opposition to emancipation, acknowledgements.
equal civil rights, has been formally abandoned.
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