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

(Ah! I'm half afraid they know it, by their gancng
Cheeks with and lily blended mouth like Cupids bow
Or like dewy tulips rended when parted in her smiles
And wthin* that little bonnet,
With the myrtle-wreath upon it.
*By within in this connection mean ''in the vicinity
off, not intending to convey the impression that the little
bonnet horribly unstysh to be capable of con-
tanning face. b. B.
The Revolution N SpaIa.
The New York Courier has received from a cor
respondent the following translation of the procla-
nation issued by the three generals who head the
revolution in Spain
PROCLAMATION.
SPANIARDs After the common errors and catas-
trophies of 184S, it was natural that all the nations
of Europe should give themselves up to the fruitful
repose which, except in special and very peculiar
circumstances, public order secures and, above all,
in SPAIN which had been afflicted by fifty years of
revolution and bloody wars, wearied by many mis-
fortunes which had been brought upon her by the in
experience of political parties and the fatality of
events, it is necessary lake breath, in order to ap
ply TO improvement dispersed wealth and activity,
which had heen acquired at such great expense.
Time and the discovery of errors had required the
dissolution OF the old parties and that spirit of bit
terness and turbulence was dead which promotes the
beginning and marks out the development of all re-
voutons. Old enemies, dynastic and political, ap
preached each other, reciprocal hatreds were forgot
ten, many experiments were compared the bonds OF
definite organization were proposed, which, being
the last word and the last form of the revolution
should unite and record in itself the past and the
present, the venerated institutions of the monarchy
and the cherished rights secured in the constitution
of the state. Whence so suddenly the zeal
which now pervades your hearts ? Whence the con-
fict the scandal and the misfortune which now dis
quiet, sudden, and shame you? Why was it that
tor so many years you walking between two
precipices-one of which is anarchy. and the other
the equally horrible one of degeneracy degradation
A miserable destiny drew to the sphere OF power
the deadly poison of speculation and administrative
immortality. To satisfy cupidity of lucre the
ue was not enough which was devoured by ruinous
operations. the present interests, which Of,
ten sacrificed it necessary to lay hand upon
the future. And thus the I'M udicious arrange
ments for the public debt the compensations and the
unheard of Immortality in the railroads, In order 10
silence the uSt reprobatiOn of the press, ministerial
decree restored the previous censorship suppressing
the liberty of writing, which is granted to all Span
iards by the second article of the constitution.
In order that the Cortes might not defend the pub
lie fortune, lis essential and august functions
interrupted by making, without its participation,
Just onerous, and absurd railroad purchases cOlec
ting taxes which had not been noted by it legisa-
ting by DEGREES questions of revenue, administra-
ton, and politics the executive power in short,
assuming all the rights and duties which the consti
tuition confers upon the Legislative.
And those who yielded, being exasperaed at the
difficulties presented to their designs by the nstitu-
lions and guarantees of political liberty thought
they could wrest them from the nation who had done
so much to gain them by conquest and from the
throne whose cement they are and have been, and
whose only protection they were amidst the assaults
of large minority, and a bitter war Of succession
In this manner, Spaniards. you have rising
again the ghost of that despotsm which, great, ira
dtional, and historcal you have driven away years
before-at first, hypocrtical and crawling, in the
celebrated discussion of nviolabiity, aferward snis
lcho FI,I S1o fho b
Al that time the present question placed on foot
coup d etat, conceived in the stalls of the State
brokers, arranged III a conspiracy of power, whose
motive cupldity, whose object spoil brought
no problem to the nation TO solve, but common
crime to chastise.
The iniquity of the beginning made necessary the
iniquty of the consequences; and it natural
that all legitimate interests, laying aside political
opinions, should be excited that all should think the
prinC piles of goodness and Justice threatened-that
all Spaniards should become alarmed, and hasten 10
the nfct, palptatlng at once with sorrow and an
ger. Unhappy conflict in which men of immortality
dare to compromise the throne, the first of our ins,
tutions, the most firm, the most veneraed and the
Queen, who receives from her subjects the greatest
proofs of love ever gained by any monarch, and in
whose cradle the honored nation of Isabella the
Catholic and Berenguela have placed SO many hopes
a conflict hitherto fruitless. Spanards; because
power has treated your patriotism with scorn your
consancy with contempt, and has received your cry
of suffering applause, loyalty for baseness and
respect for cowardice, placing you in the necess
ty OF employing your arms of yielding your prop
erty, which is threatened, your political rights,
which are denied, your own dignity and the honora-
BILE name of your fathers, which perseveringly
insulted.
To US, who gave the signal, who first seized our
arms, it belongs 10 say and to show how much viz
tue you have exercised thus far in being obedent
how much wickedness you have found in power, in
order that your conscences may be satisfied and your
minds may be fortified, and that Europe, now de-
ceived and afterwards the world, and impartial and
severer history, may do you justice The threat of
the coup d etat did not sound we'll the nation was
struck with sorrow and fear and when the Minister
Bravo Murillo wished to give hypocritca forms of
legality. the assembled Cortes even demanded it with
out hearing him; the first vote of the Congress a
solemn anathema in anticipation But that Congress
was dissolved. You recurred to the urns (the bal
lot boxes) and were driven from them by force and
corruption and If power changed its irresponsible
agents, it did not Ienounce its malevoIent tenden-
cies and projects and when the Senate, remember
ing their high duties undertook to defend the egali-
ty and the public property, the Cortes were again
closed and the constitutional involabty of the
representatives of the nation with the essential i'm
mobility Of the magistrates was forgotten for revenge
Nothing would have been effected with the close
coalition of the who had belonged TO different
political parties, either in the elections, or in the
press, or in the tribune nothing was accomplished
afterward by the voluntary withdrawing from public
Offices of the most dreaded men nothing by the tre
mendous fall of public stocks, the effect OF discredit
dlstrust and panic, necessarily produced by such
dangerous measures. Conscientious men were not
wanting who wished 10 keep power on the verge OF
the precpice by participating with it, and accepting
the portfolios of ministers, but they were painfully
instructed by their useless experiment, and it then
became indispensable to select such men as compose
the present ministry.
1t is not easy 10 forget us history because it is the
history of the few past months 1t began by deceiv