New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-06-04
New York Tribune.
1874,

gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of rule
too good for King and too weak for Repub
mean, who is unable to govern the great islant
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 lnfallibility and assuming tc
recognize the ''Old Catholics whole Con
hnent pervaded by the intellectual ferment thai
comes OF the conflict between old ideas. phio
sophlcal, theological, material, and the advances
OF Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose hei
halt opened gates-Japan abolishing feudalisnl
and inviting Western civilization to rradate
Western commerce to enrich her long hidden
| emplre-such are phases fthe news from abroad
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cognition and brighter future.
At home the struggle for Freedom seems over
The last slave has long been citizen; the last
opposition to emancipation, Acknowledgement,
equal civil rights, has been formally abandoned
No party, North or South longer disputes the
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these results must never be undone; and, with
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