Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-18

artlnce TO WreSG from the Senate the fundamental
question of the railroads and when saw its plans
discovered its officers refused it's threats despised it
suddenly threw off the cloak which disguised it, and
appeared as it was, in the disgusting nakedness of
It's immortality. One hundred and five votes against
sixty-nne one hundred and five votes-among which
were those of the most ustrious grandees of Spain
and titles of the kingdom, those of the generalsn
chief of the armies during the dynastic struggle
those of the venerable veterans of Trafalgar and
Cadz the highest magistrates, the chief capitalists
and the most venerable of our sages-1O5 votes, in
Short the flower of the nation and the glory of the
country, against 50 employees or dependents of the
government proclaimed that the great moral question
symboZed by the railroads not TO proceed from
the Senate and was not TO be resolved at the plea
sure OF power And the latter replied to that new
and most solemn anathema by again closing the
Cortes deposng the veteran magistrates insulting
and defaning the Senate itself, threatening the
country with coup detat, and finally making one,
it not in name yet in fact if not in form, in the
reality of it's measures. 1t had before dared to lay its
hands upon our civil laws, destroying the substance
OF most ancient codes without the authority of the
Cortes; and there is right or power judicial or
legislative, which it has since then respected
Thus the social principle of legality has disappear.
Ell from among the will of the ministers being the
only law Thus individual security has disappeared,
and citizens have been taken away without form of
trial, while others have been exed to foreign coun-
tries, and many more compelled to conceal them
selves, and leave their business and their houses
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the deputies, who endeavored exercise the right of
petition granted by the fundamental law to all citi-
zens; the writer's who dared to keep silence when
slavery made applause vile.
And, IN the meantime, taxes are collected without
any authority from the Cortes and 10 remedy the
necessary consequences of discredt the alarm which
such an odious policy has produced and to attend TO
the floating debt, with which the public faith has so
long been deceived TO cover over past defacaons,
and to consummate railroad purchases for the
spectators, and new broker bargains and Change
speculation, new six months forced tax has been
imposed upon the people, choosing the time when it
would be easiest to raise It, but when the consequent
ces would be the worst and inundate with tears our
hearths and fields, can that step be remedied q?
Is there any way in which great and so injurious
cause can be prevented? The press dead, the
Cortes dead, the whole nation in q state of siege
the principal men exed concealed, or fugitive the
people isolated, abandoned, and left 10 themselves
There is remedy, but it is in arms; and if there
are Spaniards left in Span-if the nation of 1908 is
still alive-if morality, even interest, have any in
nuence upon you, nse-all of you, at this voice,
soldiers and citizens, confounding in an instant all
the miserable oppressors of the country. 1t is not
our names which are to accomplish this great enter
prise; but it is morality, reason, and right which
we defend. We are soldiers who have shed our
blood for liberty and the Queen; political men, who
have gained the glory and fortune of the country
among different parties. If today united in common
feeling, we recur to arms, il is not because we are
revolutionary but because the government is SO; it
is not by making ourselves outlaws, but because the
government is one; it is not to assai public order
but to defend it, by preventing the destruction of it's
government-essential and eternal foundations final
ly, it is not for the purpose of introducing anarchy:
it is to forbid the head Of power from tearing the vi
tails of the nation and poisoning it's generous veins,
and to foster its nascent activity and strength
Let all Spaniards rally under this national and
social banner the triumph and the glory will be for
them ALL for them the gratitude of the country, the
esteem of Europe and the world, the constant Justice
shall 10 he IF haU;p
the Singal and begun the enterprise!
LEOPOLD ODONNELL
DOMINGO DULCE,
FELIX MARIA MESSINA