The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-25
The Spnn ish Revelation.

The circular despatch addressed by tho
Spanish government to its foreign diplomatic
agents ates that the object of the revolu ion in
the late uprising was the destruction Of social
order and existing policy, including, as social
consequences, the constitutional principle. the
monarcaical principle, the Catholic principle
and the dynasty, as symbol and practical APP
plcatiOn o: the whole. Yet what is there in
Spain, in whatever is beloved by Spaniards,
tat is not inseparably bound up with these
principles! The DatIonll character, historical
renown, properly. individual safely, the FAM
ly-a these contribute to confer it, form and
radical exs ence upon this comforting and
magnificent whole.
If these are ths things which the revolution
seeks to overthrow, they must be tho prince
Pies which the Spani g,ve;nmsn! upholds.
1t comes q simple question tben How can
any nation live in the pin,esnti century and
uphold this unol of all the elements Of power
welded ent rely by tho unrelenting hanl OF
church dominationY The three p rites in
Spain--the ultramontlne, the progress 81
and the mo derate-are watching every political
chance 10 uphold themselves The former
patty represents that biyotry and oppression
whose grinding despotism has forced the other
two into opposition. Il is the party OF
tho 81 rgy par crcellsncc, and is ready
to n hit rather than yield one jot Of
tho civil au hosity which long years Of political
acton and careful Management have concen-
trated in their hands.
The interests of the other two parties are
band ID; but the ra lical element, which tho
PROGRESSES. faction represents, is tn, main ono,
and a. III, revolutionary car rolls onward will
absorb the conservatives. These, then, are the
elements that possess in themselves, frs; class
civil war. Every day the signs are stronser
that war mus. soon break out. Spain, the lust
European Power 10 feel lib ,ral influence, will
b, The last to yield to it, while W, believe IL
will only yield after the b!ood.est OF revolu.
tons Italy finds it impossible TO ra oh III,
proper level of nation ility in the n.nst ,enth
century while the clergy hold half ths country
in mortmain and control the political de,tines
of the nation. Austil has within y year shown
US that she appreciates this truth and makes
q movement liberllwlri. Not 80 Spain; she
clings i'll to the ideas Of the dfteontb century,
and centres upon them hsr political existence.
1t is necessary, therefore, tor tbs liber Il party
TO make their boldcst efforts to extrica.e the
State from the hands Of the clergy. We shall
see enacted over again in oil Spain just what
we have been looking at for ffty years in
Mexico. Spain, relitive to Europe, does moi
bear dis,imilar position 70 Mexico relative to
the United States. Instead of thre, par.ie,
the contest will, like that In Mexico, mar ow
down to two; and In liberal and church fac
lions we shall have the Same warfare which
has marked the attempt Of the clergy all over
the world to cling TO civil power as long as
they have o dollar or one man lett with who b
TO defend themselves.
Year after year the liberals have been gain
ing ground, and in proportion as they havs
shown their power 40 has the government tiled
by the severest measures to crush them. II Is
estimated that no less than ton thous md Of tho
ultra liberals are to-day banished from Spain,
while for any one Of the liberal chiefs to enter
tho territory where the governing party can
capture him is sure death. Marshal Narvaes,
Of the monArchical party, Is OF that type OF men
whom Spain has made use Of in her Wholesale
slaughter Of Spanish American insurgents--msn
like Calleja In Mexico, Pezucl, in Buenos Ayres,
Boves and Rosette in Venezuela during the war
Of colonial independence. Narvaez now pro-
poses 10 undertake the Wholesale slau yhter of
the insurgents at home after the same method
which has shed such lus,re upon the arms Of
Spain elsewhere.
There is no doubt but Spain Is to-day trcm-
bling on the eve OF that change in liberal
direction which Is so profoundly agitasing the
whole OF Europe. Every edict or manifesto