 Although usually adverse to other liberal factions, including the group formed around historian Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Nicolae Ionescu's "Fracţiunea liberă şi independentă", he united with them in condemning "Junimea" 's views and cultural guidelines.Also during that decade, he openly sided with the radicals around C. A. Rosetti, who would, in 1875, contribute to the creation of the National Liberal Party.Urechia collaborated with Dimitrie August Laurian and Ştefan Michăilescu on the anti-"Junimist", Romantic and pro-liberal tribune "Revista Contimporană" after 1873.