Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-23
Spain,

Inc affairs OF TINS unhappy country are
still unsettled and likely to remain 50.
The Duke OF Genoa is losing ground daily
as a candidate for the imperial authority
The armed republican instruction is sup
pressed by the iron hand of the provisional
government, but the principles of the re-
publican party are stronger than before
they were baptized in the blood Of their
advocates While the laws Of history, the
ideas of the revolution, and the memorable
movement Of the social undertow call for
a government of the people, certain ire
sponsibIe parties and individuals conspire
to thwart the tendencies Of the popular
mind and establish a permanent and he
reditary government, that shall be a denial
Of the idea of popular sovereignty. This
conflict of old and new ideas, of the princi-
pie Of monarchy with the principle Of pop
ular government, has produced an agita-
ton so profound and universal that it
threatens to shake the country to pieces.
Neither party is yet strong enough to en-
throne It's own principles. When the
/ throne Of the Bourbon fell the nation hop
ed that the throne itself had fallen-that
the divine right and tradition of kings had
fallen, and that a new right had been foun-
ded, the sovereignty of the people. But
the leaders OF the army who now control
the government are striving to prevent the
accomplishment Of this idea They are
monarchists at heart, but unable and I'M
willing TO agree upon q monarch. The
| possession Of power Is too intoxicating a
cup for them easily to relinquish. The
clergy work under cover with the abettors
of the nations reinstatement, and it is
not a little singular that 4 revolution in
favor of popular, religious and civil free
dom, should result in the massacre of its
most ardent friends. The course of those
who control the government seems marked
by the most marvellous faulty. Ali the
agitations which now affect Spain are in
consequence Of their policy. If they could
. learn the alphabet of civil liberty they
might be the greatest benefactors of their
country. If they could forget their own
power and glory and work for the good OF
the people, they might facilitate a repub.
lican government in Spain and redeem an
empire to truth and honor and prosperity
which has been cursed by Philip the Sec.
ond and the Duke Of Alva But it is the
misfortune of the countries of Europe thai
among the leaders of the reactionary party
they can find not a single George Wash
f ington, who refused the crown and forgo
his own selfish glory in his devotion to re
publican liberty and the welfare of all tn,
5 people. Even Kossuth surrendered his in
l tegrity, and Garabaldi gave the crown o
Naples and Italy to Victor Emmanuel
And what could be expected of Prim ant
Serrano? The stream will not rise highe
> than the fountain. They cannot. will no
be inconsistent with their idea And 81
/. the country will have no rest till the las
f vestige of the absolute and despOtic idea
/ is obliterated. If they vote king, if the,
decree the annulhpg of individual rights
declare arbitrary rules, the humiliation O
= human personality, the restoration of in
: tolerance and bigotry, and the re-enslave
: ment of Cuba amid such horrors of bloc
and cruelty as are scarce equalled in tn
annals of the worlds crimes, they vii
d simply have voted another Revolution
And the next revolution will be attende
:. with the same results to the opponents c
s this that they have inflicted upon its friend.
Prim and Serrano would do well to remem
> Der the wisdom that came from the Glow
V in the comedy of the Twelfth Night, 9th
Y whirhgig of Time brings in his revenges.
d They still adhere to the doctrines and idea
: that have made Spain the scorn of the na
i tons, the prey of the French, the battle
/ field of Europe, and in her faded and az
tique grandeur, her decayed cities and he
-, desOlate streets, they cannot read the lie:
- sons of the Nemesis, whose scOurge the
= again invoke on their own land and o
- their own heads. The blood of the repul
= licans at Saragossa and Montealongue
2 upon them Il. .. .......
}; Their blood must for the blood there shed, atom
If they must die for those that died, too dearly
ID They buy their triumph
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