The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-06
The War Of Revolution I'm Spain.
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,o The soil of Spain is again crimsoned
with the blood of her children engaged
in battling against each other in the
name of revolution headed by legitima-
cy, against revolution which claims to
be founded OH the popular will and
sanctioned by a citizen vote. Don Car
los invasion, as it has been termed, of
the soil induced "risings" in support of
his claim; tile newly appointed execu-
tive met the movement by. military eff.
forts for. its repression blood was she'd
five days since, and this morning we
have to record by special telegram from
London and through the Atlantic cable
the facts Of the occurrence of other and
more severe engagements, the killing of
q number of government officers, the
cutting Of railroads and telegraphs, the
marching and countermarching of arm
ed men, with the existence OF a home
contest so general, apparently, in its
character that it must eyentuate either
in the readjustment of the present form
of government on new basis and with
new men at rnc ncrIIr, anotfIer uUd more
radical change; foreign invasion at the
instance, it may be, of party invitation
and the promptings Of the eXiled Queen.
or anarchy. On Sunday, the 18th of
the present month, Don Carlos was nn-
nounced as having disappeared from
France and crossed the border into the
province of Navarro. From Paris we
were told that he was "hotly pursued :"
by French police on nearing the from
tier. These officials, in general so ac-
tive in the discharge of their duties and
so unerrng in their Identification of in
dividuals, failed to interrupt his jour-
ney--a fact which may be interpreted
as significant or the reverse by the pub
| lie in estimating the chances and conse-
quences of the issue. The Carlist par
! ty in Spain assumed threatening at.
tiudc" the very next day. Queen Isa-
bella's partisans commenced to agitate
for war on the Goth instant. They ten
dered the military command to General
Lersundi, formerly Captain General of
Cuba, which that gentleman, for rea-
sons best known to himself, judged it
prudent to decline. The excitement ex-
tended from Madrid. 1t pervaded the
country during the night so that BARGE
Iona, Cordova and Valladolid, with 9TH
er important points, were in iusurrec-
tionarv attitude the morning Of the 21st
inst. Numerous arrests were made
and generals, colonels, sub-officers. pri
vate soldiers and peasants were classe6
by the Cabinet as malconteLt. traitorous
or in actual counter-revolution, OH al
sides. Napoleon employed himself a:
a neutral and pacificator, ordering tina
all "Spanish conspirators should de
part from the fronticr-a measure
which proclaimed to the surrounding
peoples that Spain, even in her days o.
intantile democracy, could produce
"conspirators," just as did France in
her era Of reasserted imperialism.
Moved and influenced in such man.
ner and by such causes. the Spania:ds
met in arms. a battle was fought al
Ciudad Real, one hundred miles distan,
from Madrid, on the Goth inst, between
the civil authorities and the advancing
partisans Of Don Carlos. Several per
sons were wounded on both sides. Tn,
Carlists were driven off or retired. thei
leaders either escaping or being un
known. Action in the field was fol
lowed by secret caucus in the Cities
The musket and sabre were, it was ru
mored, to be exchanged for poison, tn
knife and the stiletto. the governmen
announcing the discovery of plot hav
ing for its object the removal of tn
leading OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Prin
and Rivero-by assassination. Fever
ed, uncertain, aimlcss to some extent
and vastly dcmoralized in national spil
it, the Spaniards initiated the Carlis
outbreak" which we chronicle to-day
His adherents, Basquinos particular,
are in arms in many hundreds, Ciuda
Real being still their chief point Of con
centration. a battle was fought ycstel
day between his men and the troops c
the existing government, which result
ed as stated above. and other engage
ments are expected momentarily. Th
Carlists, to the number of four Thousand
!, were at La Mancha last night, govern
ment forces being on their march tC
wards that place for the purpose of al
tacking them. The Spanish question q
, home presents an eventiul point in til
: European history of the day poir
which develops the truth of the embal
RAISING fact that Not all the blood q
Talavera shed, not all the laures c
Barrosa's height" have "won for Spai
D her well asserted right When, and b
what agency, and in what form, wi
she obtain it?