New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-23

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mission, while individually meritorious,
is full of meaning in both q national and
international sense. It shows that the
federation of the world, of which the
laureate Of England writes, is constantly
becoming broader and Armer in its foun.
dations, and the parliament of man more
grandly authoritative on every question
which involves humanity.
In England the toilers are making con-
slant advances toward q higher plane.
Their food is becoming better, their intel.
ligence higher, and their rights as COM
moners more thoroughly assured. To a
constitu tional enlargement of the electoral
franchise has been added recognition Of
common and inalienable rights which
gives to the mental and moral stature OF
the average Englishman a material in.
crease.
Though Great Britain has been taking
rapid steps in the right direction, there
are still important questions pertaining
to the common veal which can not be
solved while the agricultural workmen Of
that country remain unrepreserted. But
the might and the right are now advan-
cling toward each other and their day OF
accommodation is at hand.
On the European continent the same
tendency appears in all directions. Ger
man unity has tended to the enlargement
of German brotherhood and has COM
pletely obliterated those petty sectional
isms SO annoying to the inhabitants OF
neighboring principaities.
From Rome come whispers of complaint
among the working people, and Of for
midable organizations in which political
conspiracies may yet be Matched. Evil
IDENTIFY the people there hunger for larger
liberty than they have yet enjoyed, The
harness gals them, and their distress can
no longer be effectively mantled by the
yellow waves of the miasmatic Tiber.
There is in the air that which filled the
common thought when Rienzi last of the
tribunes, became leader of the people.
But even in those countries where pro-
gress has been most tardy there are yet to
be found faint indications of progressive
life. A correspondent of the London
Times draws comparison between the
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Spain, which he witnessed eighteen
months ago, and that of Murad V. as
thirty-third Sultan Of the dynasty of 9th
man, at which he was present but few
weeks since. The attendant events were
in both cases extremely significant. There
was in each like popular acclaim, and a
conspicuous recognition Of the potency Of
public opinion. At the special request of
the new Spanish King the more obsequi-
Gus of the old forms of court etiquette
were discontinued, and he himself gave
an example of that mode of address which
courtesy had introduced among his SUBJ
jects. In like manner the new Sultan
made his first appearance dressed in a
plain military uniform, without his aig-
rette of diamonds and the other orna-
ments distinctive of his rank, and bowling
his acknowledgements to the salutations
with which he was greeted, proved him.
self not insensible to the demands of pop
ular appreciation.
This was q most emphatic innovation
on the traditional Stiffness of the Padishah.
After it came an order that persons ad-
mitted to his presence should abstain
from the old custom of folding their arms
on their breasts and bowling their faces to
the ground as if dazzled by the SUPER
human splendor of some superior being,
but should stand erect and speak to him
face to face, as man to man.
When, through the barbaric grandeur
of the East, the light of Western progress
begins thus to CLEAN, humanity may look
hopefully on and say with the star-gazing
Gallileo, 'The world still moves"