The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-05
The Crown of spain.
ANOTHER REPUrED MANIFESTO FROM Ex.oUEEs IsA-
BBLLA.

document called the Manifesto Of Queen Iss'
bella has appeared in Paris, and is to this effect
"spsnisrdsi Since my infancy, and because
you desired 1t, have been the national symbol
Of your rights and your liberties. Men whom
have loaded with benefits when they appeared
before me as your friends and your defenders,
all at once pretended, after having hundred
times sworn the contrary, that my dynasty was
an insurmountsble obstacle 10 your happiness,
TO the glory of our country, to the extension OF
its moral and material interests. My heart
told me that they lied, but never would
undeceive you at the cost OF civil war. pre-
ferred leaving them 10 dispose, without OBJ
stacle and without control, Of the power by
which they were to make you more happy,
more glorious and richer. God is my wit
ness that il they had obtained that result
would have blessed them from my place Of exile,
in spite of their ingratitude to myself, happy to
sacrifice my son to you, and to remain to weep
alone far from my country. Five months have
now passed away. Are you happier? Are you
richer, Are you more glorious! Your best and
poorest blood has Redeemed the pavements of
Cadz and Malaga, Your honor has been flung at
the feet Of all princes, who put by with disdain
the crown to which we added the new jewel Of
Tetuan and your fortune is diminished by all the
gold which is divided before your eyes. Our
precious and dear Cuba Is on the point Of being
given 10 the foreigners who have acquired it; and
our navy, whose guns Numbered but yesterday in
the Pacific, 10 become the humbled guard of your
brethren crowded in the holds of eur ships. The
from yours wss.enlarging gradually before US the
horizons which faith had opened TO US. Fansti-
cism has been reused by the gratuitous insults
offered tohe servants OF our God land, ssthe taber-
nace of our churches possess great value, they
have laid their hands even on our chsces 10 order
to prepare their inventory and their sale. What
are the political principles that have been pro-
mulgated, Spain has lost In the European con-
cert the rank of sixth great power which we
together had gained for her. Let but some great
event occur now in the world and we shall be
excluded from common action. Our noble
country, toward which the eyes OF the world
once turned when question Of honor was to be
settled, is now become the thester Of scandalous
traffic. People suppose you are to be sold because
some have sold themselves; but well knew that
you are still the inhertors Of the chivalrous honor
of the Cad. Commerce and industry are dead.
Civil war, with its horrors, is imminent; and, as
there is NO keystone to your social edice, every
one sees that II must fall upon you. While en-
bracing my children / think of yours, and kneel
and pray geaven to raise up some one TO save you.
even wert be to find on his brow the disdem
which hdd from my ancestors But, alas the
salvation bf nations can only result from the ap-
plcstion n defined principles; and when genius
il wanting the symbol alone may be sficscious I;
bot IL is not around a symbol that an unsettled
nation can be reconstructed. That truth dictates
to me my duty; it makes me resolve more than
ever in the firm resolve TO remain your sovereign.
The cslamites which have fallen upon me on the
throne must be to you sure guarantee that II
r6eOlV6 mol 10 ueeccnu lrOm ~ - Ouly DeCkuse Il
desire 10 fulfill the duties which God has imposed
upon me, and because my whole life should be de-
voted TO you. Let rs concert together to restore
to Spain peace. fortune and glory. Let rs put
aside without anger the incapable men who have
deluded you. ! ask of you to pardon them as q
proof Of the good they have done me in giving you
an opportunity Of svowing that 1t is not who was
an obstacle to your happiness. The reactions will
never be saDguinary where my heart can inter.
vene, where your will, expressed by unre-
stricted sufrsges shall indicate the disinterested
men who are to assist me in healing
the wounds Of our country. Let rs togeth-
or resume, but henceforth enlightened as to
persons, the work of regeneration, Of tolerance,
and, above all, of liberty, of which am the sym
boil. Let Us prepare an era of glory and pros
perity for your children, whom my Alfonso learns
from me each day TO cherish more and more
What has passed is but q dream. Let US awake
from il without even remembering that Spanish
men have been found to solicit from the foreigner
the exercise of an influence which my ancestors
accustomed You to exercise all over the world. l
speak to you at once as the heiress of Pelsyo, Of
Isabella the Catholic, of Charles V, and Of Charles
Ill, but above all, as the chosen of your hearts ;
as the woman whom you have habituated to suffer
with your sufferings, TO feel pride with your PRIDE
to be strong with your strength. am wholly
yours and with my son in my arms come to re-.
store what has been taken from you-repose,
fortune, power and the supremacy Of your faith"