The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-09

lsvolent tendencies and projects; and when the &c.
pate, remembering their high duties, undertook TO
defend the Legality and the public property, the
CoTtes were again closed and the constitutional in
volatility Of the representatives Of the nation, With
forgotten for revenge.
Nothing would have been effected with the close
coalition Of the men who had belonged to different
political parties, either In the electons or In the
press, or the tribune nothing was accomplished
afterwards by the voluntarily Withdrawing from pub
lie Offices Of the most dreaded men; nothing by the
tremendous fall Of public stocks, the eject Of dis
credit, distrust and panic, necessarily produced by
not wanting who wished to keep power on the verge
Of the precipice, by participating with it, and ac-
eeptng the portfolios Of ministers; but they were
painfully instructed by their useless experiment and
L then became indispensable to select such men as
compose the present ministry.
Is not easy to forget its history, because it Is the
history Of the few past months Il began by deceiv.
e and nSstsyDg the preceding ministry
and justice ); designed to destroy the political
opposition Of the Cortes, by purchasing with
public Offices its most important champions;
and then sought by artitiGe TO wrest nom On n
railroads; and, when il saw its plans dis.
covered its offers refused, its threats despised, 1t
suddenly threw of the cloak which disguised 1t, and
= immortality. One hundred and 1--WE votes against
sixty nine; los votes-amoDg which were those OF
% most Industrious grandees Of Spain, and titles Of
Tie kingdom, those Of the generals-in-chief OF the
A1nies curing the dynastic struggle those Of the
est magistrates the chief capitalists and the most
venerable Of sages los votes in short the flower
Il the nation and the glory Of the country, against
% employees or dependents Of the government, pro-
claimed hat the great moral question. symbolised
by the railroads, was not to proceed from the
Senate and was not TO be resolved at the pleasure
q power. And the latter replied to that new and
Se s cisn ns snd
hning the Senate itself, threatening the country
with coup d'ktat, and finally making one, If not
IN name, yet in fact il not in FORM in the reality
haads upon our civil laws, destroying. the
subtance Of our most ancient codes, without the
authority Of the Cortes; and there is no right or
power, judicial or Legislative. which it has since then
respected.
Thus the social principle Of legality has dissp-
peared from among u.s. the will Of the ministers be-
ing the only law. Thus individual security has dis
appeared, and citizens have been taken away with
eut form Of hial, while others have been exled to
ibrsign countries, and many moro compelled
10 conceal themselves, and leave their bust
ness and their houses. Of this number were the
generals, the senators and the deputies who endea-
vored to exercise the right of petition granted by
the fundamental law to ali citizens the writer's who
dared to keep silence when slavery made applause
VIE. And, In the meantime, taxes are collected
without any authority from the Cortes; and, to
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 defalcatons, and to c0nsummate new railroad
purchases for the SPECTATORS and new broker-bar-
gains and change speculations, q new six months'
ibSced tax has been imposed upon the people, choos
bg the time when it would be easiest to raise but
when the consequences would be the worst, and inun
date with teartour hearths and our felds-can that
step be remeded? Is there any way in which great
and 60 injurious q cause can be prevented The
pres dead, the Cortes dead, the whole nation in
state Of siege-the principal men exiled, concealed
q f1gtive-the people isohted, abandoned and left
10 themselves.
There is remedy, but It is in arms; and II there
ere 6paniards left In Spain-if the nation Of 1908
b stiu alve- morality, or even interest, have any
influence upon you, rise--au Of you, at this voice,
soldiers and citizens, confounding in an instant all
eur name which is to accomplish this great enter
prize; 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
amoss different parties. II today, united in com.
HoA feeling, we recur to arms it Ia not because we
are revolutionary, but because the government Is so
y not by making ourselves outlaws, but because
NJ government 10 Que; It is mot to assal public
erder but to defend it, by preventing the destruc
non Of it's government, essential and eternal foun.
oations; finally, 10 IL not for to purpose Of intro
eneing anarchy; It Il to forbid the head of power
om tearing the vitals Of the nation, and poisoning
~ generous veins, and to foster its nasoent activity
md strength.
Let all Epanisrds rally under this national and
social banner; the triumph and the glory will be
r them all; for them the gratitude Of the country,
Of hsolg Ours she ss Be the Of
EGving given the signal and begun the enterprise.
LEoPoLDo O'D0NNHLL,
DOMINGO DULCE,
FELIX MARIA MESSINA.