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February, [Centered] Tuesday, Monday, 11. [Right] 1873.

The King of Spain abdicated from the Spanish throne yesterday. Poor Amadeus descendant of the handsome Victor Emanuel was not the person to govern the common Spanish race. If the Spaniards wished to retain him and thus regenerate their race they must not restrict his powers. Today a republic was proclaimed in Spain. How long will it last?

[Centered] Wednesday, 12.

Today is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Lincoln was born in 1809 and was consequently at the time he was so barbarously murdered fifty six years old. Poor old Abe a good and honest man not withstanding his little faults. In his case we find one of the evils of a republic like this. Lincoln was a man whose private character was undarkened by any uproach [approach] and yet simply because he was one of the leaders of the Republican party how much has be not been abused, abused by scoundrels who are the scum of the Earth when compared to him whom they vilify. Lincoln’s deeds thank God are not to be ridged by these men but by future generations of man in whose eyes the rail-splitter will prove as good and as heal a man as any other in the whole range of history.