The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-10
THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

The New York Courier has received from correspond
ant the following translation Of the proclamation Issued
nv the three generals who head the revolution IN Spain
PROCLAMATION
Sp,ARDs After the common errors and catasrophes
g1a4e il was natural that all the nations Of Europe should
1--WE themselves up the fruitful repose which, except IN
eca and very peculiar circumstance public order Sc
rne; and above all, in Spain which had been aiiiciea
bv fifty wears Of revolution and bloody ware weared by
many misfortunes which had been brought upon her py
M nexperjence of political parties and the fatality Of
events il is necessary take breath in order TO apply TO
Improvement dispersed wealth and activity which had
been acquired at such great expense
Time and the discovery OF errors had required the dSo
uon of the old parties and that spirit of bitterness and
turbulence dead which promotes the beginning ana
marks out the development Of all revolutions Ola enc
cs dynastic and political approached each other re
prooa hatreds forgotten, many experiments were
compared the bonds Of definite organization were pro
posed which, being the last word and the last form oil the
evontion should unite and record in itself The past and
The present the yenerated institutions Of the monarchy
and the cherished rights secured IN the constitution oil
the state Whence arose suddenly the zeal which now
neryades your hearts? Whence the conflict the scandal
and the misfortune which dsquet sadden and shame
you? Why il that for so many years you were walk
ing between two precipices-one OF which is anarchy,
and the other the equally horrible OF degeneraey and
degradation A.,
deadly poison of speculation and administrative immoral
INV TO satisfy cupdity of lucre the revenue was not
enough which devoured by ruinous operations nor
the present interests which were often sacrificed was
the inudcious arrangements for the public debt the com
yensaons and the unheardo immortality in the railroads
In order silence the just reproaion OF the press min
eral decree restored the previous censorship suppress
ing the liberty OF writing which is granted to all Span
iards by the second article of the constitution
In order that the Cores might not defend the public for
tune its essential and august functions interrupted
by making without its participation unjust onerous and
absurd railroad purchases, collecting which had not
s noted BY anG oy I oa
in short ressrming all the rights and duties which the
constitution confers upon the legislative.
And those who yielded, being exasperated at the difficult
ties to their designs by institutions and guar
antees political liberty thought they could wrest thn
from the nation who had done SO much to gain them by
conquest from the throne whose cement they and
been and whose only protection they were amidst the
assaults Of large minority and bitter war OF succession
In this manner Spanards you have rising again the
ghost of that despotsm, which, great tradtonal and his
torica Won have driven away years beoret first hypo
critical and crawling in the celebrated discussion of nvio
liability afterward sinister and shameful in the menace OF
the coup dfa AT that time the present question placed
foot coup dea conceived in the stalls Of the State
brokers' arranged in conspiracy Of power whose motive
cupdi whose object was SPOIL brought no problem
to the nation to solve but common crime to chastse.
The niquy of the beginning made necessary the iniqui
of the consequences; and it natural that all legitimate
interests laying aside political opinions, should be excited
that NIL should think the principles Of goodness and justice
hreatcnedthat all Spaniards should become alarmed,
and hasten to the conflict FACILITATING at once with sorrow
and anger Unhappy conflict in which men OF immoral
y dare to compromise the throne the first of insttu
ons the most firm the most venerated and the Queen
who receives from her subjects the greatest proofs OF love
ever gained by any monarch and in whose cradle the hon
ored nation Of Isabella the Catholic and Bercngucla have
placed many hopes conflict hitherto ifuesS, Span
ards because power has treated your patriotism with
scorn your costancy with contempt and has received
your cry of suffering applause loyalty for baseness and
respect for cOwardce placing now in the necessity OF
employing your arms or Of yielding your property which
is threatened your political rights which denied yonr
own dignity and the honorable Of your fathers,
which are perseveringly nsulted
To US who gave the signal who first seized arms, it
belongs to say and show how much virtue you have
ercised thus far in being obedent how much wckedness
you have found in power in order that your conscience
may be satisfied md your minds may be fortified and that
Europe, deceived and afterward the world, and i'm
partial and history may do justice The threat
of the coup dka' did not sound well the nation struck
with and fear and when the Minister Bravo Murllo
wished give it hypocritca forms Of legality the
bled Cortes demanded it. without hearing him; the
FIRST vote of the Congress solemn anathema in ancpa
ton. But that Congress dissolved. 4ou REQUIRED TO
the urn the baotboSes and were driven from them BY
force and corruption and power changed its rrespons-
Bile agents. IL did not its malevoent tendencies
and projects and when the Senate remembering their high
duties undertook to defend the legality and the public
property the Cores again closed and the consttu-
ona nyolabity Of the representatives of the nation with
the essential mmohilty of the magistrates forgotten
for revenge
Nothing would have been effected with the close coali-
ton Of the who had belonged to different political par
ties either in the elections III the press in the tribune;
nothing accomplished afterward by the voluntary with
drawing from public Offices Of the most dreaded
thing by the tremendous fall OF public stocks the effect of
dscred disus and panic necessarily produced by such
dangerous Conscientious not want
ing who wished to keep power the verge Of the prec
pce by participating with it. and accepting the portfolios
Of minister's but they painfully instructed by their
useless experiment and it then became indispensable to
lcct such men compose the present ministry.
II is not easy TO forget its history because il the his
tory of the few past months 1t began by deceving and
betraying the preceding ministry succeeded in establish
ing itself by false promises of morality and Justice; de-
signed to destroy the political opposition of the Cortes by
purchasing with public Offices its most important cham
pions and then sought by nrticc p wiest from the SEN
ate the fundamental question of the railroads and when
saw its plans discovered its officers refused its threats
despsed it suddenly threw of the cloak which disguised
IL and appeared it in the disgusting nakedness of
its immortality One hundred and iye against sixty
nine; hundred and five votes--among which were
those of the most llnstrious grandces of SPAIN and titles
OF the kingdom those of the generalin-che Of the armies
during the dynasc struggle those of the venerable vet
Grams OF Trafalgar and Cadiz the highest magistrates the
chief capitalists and the venerable Of sageso5
votes in short the flower of the nation and the glory of
the country, against SO employees dependents of the
government, proclaimed that the great moral question
ymboized by the railroads not to proceed from the
Senate and TO be resolved at the pleasure of pow
er And the latter replied to that new and most solemn
anathema by again closing the Cortes. eposing the vet
Gran magistrates insulting and deimng the Senate itself
threatening the country with coup dtdt and hnally
making if not in name yet in fact if not in FORM in
The reality of its II had before dared TO lay its
hands upon civil laws destroying the substance OF
most ancient codes without the authority of the Coes
and there Is right or power, judicial legislative
which 1t has since then respected.
ihns the social principle of legality has disappeared
from among us, The viii Of the ministers being the only
law Thus individual security has disappeared, and c-
M nave been taken away without form of trial. while
Others have been exiled to foreign counties and many
more compelled to conceal themselves and leave their
business and their houses OF this number We're the generals