The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-25
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FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25, 1868.
For Prsudsnt. ..HORATIO SEYMOUR.
For Vsc.,p President. :. FRANCIS p. BLAIR.
The Spanish Revolution.

| At this season OF the year newspapers are
generally as stale and dull as they are GER
tainly Improbable, and even the distant
hum 1.-The October and November elections
fails to give them any more than spasmo-
die activity. The grand tragedy Of the de-
cade, the earthquake in South America,
filed the columns of the press with tales Of
horrible destruction, and broke the monot-
ony of the time; but the feeling which it
aroused was one of sympathy with the suf-
ferers and sorrow at the event Now, how
ever, the wires are burdened with tidings of
the movements of armed men, the cabals Of
ministers, the intrigues of sovereigns; and
yet no one is terror-stricken and none are
dismayed. -
Poor Spain is always in trouble. One
revolutionary jack is no sooner boxed up
and screwed down, than, presto q more
mischievous Gill takes its dangerous. place.
EsrARTERo, 'NARvAEz, O'DoNNELL, and other
lesser stars, try their hand in turn at saving
or running the country; and, in the mean
while, the finances are in state of inex-
tricable confusion, trade and industry are
paraiyzed, public education is at an end,
and the liberty of the press is going! going!
gone! Population decreases, as is natural
when the minds of men are set upon pure
politics; and slowly there grows up class
of radical reformers who do not look to the
removal of an obnoxious minister as the end
of their endeavors, but who are ready, when
the moment is at hand, to shout, "down with
King or Queen Anybody" and cup with
King Somebody Else"
1t is hardly likely that the fifteen thous-
and maritime giants, who are now said to
be in revolt, will turn out to be so many
harmless windmills, or that the long array
of armed knights will prove to be flock Of
silly sheep The existing revolution is the
most serious that Spain has ever known,
and all the weight, of Queen ISABELLA, aud
all the stars and garters, and fine clothes
and aummery of her royal household, may
tkis time fail in soaping down or stamping
out the three great classes of Liberal Union
lists, Progresistas and Democratas.
If Providence is on the side Of big bstta-
lions instead of fat women, there is but little
hope for the Queen of Spain. That obese
lady has done nothing for the people, and
now they will do naught for her. The tra-
ditional divinity has hedged her in for long
enough. 1t is time that Spain should feel
that grand onward movement which stirred
England to the core towards the close OF
the seventeenth century-which laid the
| foundation of oil that is liberal in France
one hundred years later-and which, in this
present age, is giving homogeneity, unity
and freedom to the German and Italian
nations. Spain must not stop the way, 80
say the people. Their ruler has been tried,
and has been found wanting in ability,
power and liberality; and they are now
hammering at the ga es of the capital,
clamoring for the expulsion Of the Bur
bons, and refusing to accept the abdication
of the Queen in favor of !" His Royal High
ness," her son. So far, the revolution has
swept all before it; yet it is unwise to ask
for too much, and the Liberals, by demand
ing all that they desire and pray for, may
lose much that is already gained. "My
Imperial Cousin, NAPOLEON" however, will
not be inclined to interfere in this little
domestic difficulty, and it is most probable
that the Spaniards will secure at least
thoroughly reformed government. A Bour-
bon mummy-aever learning, never forget
ting-may still be at the head of the State,
but the people will have voice in the pub
lie affairs, and will be making ready for
the moment when the pear is ripe, and a
thorough reformation shall give spain-a
land teeming with natural wealth-the op-
portunity of becoming power for good
among the nations of the earth.
Old Spain needed tonic. spaniards can
fight, though, their swords have rusted
since the war in Morocco. An infusion of
bayonet and sabre will vitalize the forces
of Spain, and make her worthy of all her
| ancient renoWn