5th January.
Ir is more than fifty years since the last great wave of democratic excitement swept across the face of europe. Who, then, would have thought that the next would be caused by a hurricane in the Far East, or, to speak more correctly, would show the reflex action of the crushing defeat of a Western military despotism at the hands of a then obscute Eastern State? Such, however, was the design of fate. In 1848, two forces, principles, hopes, or desires, call them what you will so that it be remembered that they made for trath and righteousness, were opto two others, to be named in ike manner according to your pleasure, so that it be not forgotten that they were the outward and visible signs of inhuman malice and wrong. T here was a kind of dual
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