Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-14


3 delivered and they could gain n
, good by further waiting. He toll
> them he recognized agents of th
! reaction busy here and ther
amongst them, and begged them t.
90 home. SorDi, Blanc, and othe
Republicans followed in the sam
strain, and with good effect, as
breaking-up movement was oh
served. Noticing, however, tn
deputy Senior Joarizti, the editor o
the Republican paper, the Iqualdad
the crowd called out for him to ad
dress them. He is a bitter enemy
of the Serrano Ministry, and it may
be remembered was not long age
| imprisoned for his violent articles
against the provisional government
in connection with the instruction
at Cadiz and Malaga. His speech
to the crowd was calculated to add
fuel to the fire, instead Of like the
others, throwing oil on the troubled
waters. So indiscreet was he that
he was pulled by the coat tails by
CASTELAR, and the others, and per-
suaded not to speak more when he
had only got thus far, according to
his own account in the Iqualdad of
yesterday:
"Ciudadanas and CiWdadanos,
(citizenesses and citizens,) what
come you here to ask2 All! you
come to ask the tranquility of your
families, the peace of your firesides,
the future, and the blood of your
sons-the abolition in short, of the
quintaS, that contribution of blood
1 do not hesitate to stigmatize as
contribution of tears and a tribute
of despair! At the foot of these
steps, before the Constituent Assem-
bly,, representative of the entire
Spanish people, you come to ask
that this Infamous lottery may cease
forever, in which they play with the
liberty, the hope, and even the life
of man! And this which you ask
here, we of the Republican minority
ask. inside. To secure this we do
all we can, but it is more than we
can accomplish, for-I ought to tell
you the truth--the efforts Of the
Republican minority are completely
useless"
If such words as these, uttered at
such a critical moment, had not
been checked by his companions,
there is no telling where the excita-
bility of this young man would have
carried him, or what would have
been their effect on the angry thou
sands he was addressing. Inside
the Cortes allusion was made to
what was going on outside. The
question of the levy of the 1st of
April was under discussion. Garcia
Lopez, Republican, was speaking
against it when, observing move
ments amongst the deputies, many
coming in and going out, and sew
eral of them surrounding Prim,
while the latter beckoned to Gen
Izquierda, and, after a few wills
pered words, the latter went out, he
stopped and said: "Senor Presi-
dent, if for any reason, which ] sus-
pect there is, you think I ought not
to continue my speech, will sus-
pend it." MANY deputies, "No, no;
60 on.") Senior Alercon $50 on.
The Chamber is not to be intimi-
ment the shouts anu yTs,g 49,
could be distinctly heard.
Prim-With Permission Of the
President and Senior Lopez l will
say a word on what the speaker
thought he heard. When his Ex-
cellency believed he was interrupted
l was giving orders to the captain
general of the district to assemble
the troops in the barracks on ac-
count of the connections at the
gates of the Cortes. This cannot
be tolerated, and so the brigades of
volunteers have been instructed to
come and stop the crowds. Great
applause, especially on the minis
terial side Of the House,
Gorilla minister of FomentO)-
If Senior Lopez will permit me l
also desire to say a few words, to
amplify what the Minister of War
has said, and add some details Of
which he is ignorant through hav-
ing remained inside. The groups
who now surround the precincts of
the Assembly to impose awe on US
in the moments of onr discussion
of the quintas, do not know who
have brought them nor who have
excited them, but the manifestation
has gone on increasing step by
step. To do Justice to every one |
ought to say that Senores CASTELAR,,
Sorni, and Blanc-Worthy mem
bers of the Republican minority
have made all sorts Of efforts to in
duce them to dissolve and to re-
spect what the Cortes may accord.
But another deputy, whose name L
do not wish to mention (many
voices: "Name, name"). The pa
er of the denunciator does not fall
to me, so will not name him. Great
confusion There has, however, been
one deputy of the Republican mi
nority who, when his companions
had so counselled the crowds that
they began to retire, excited them,
saying that the minority was impo-
tent before the accord of the ma
iority, and the groups have con-
tinued, insisting on wishing to enter
here to annual by violence the
resolutions of the assembly who
have valor sufficient to resist the
crowds and even to combat them if
necessary. Cries of eyes, yes"
The deputy who has expressed him
self thus is one of the worthy mi
nority whose conduct l have ap-
plauded many times, and especially
on the day when we voted the
proposition on public order, when
| he abstained from voting and left
his seat because he did not conform
to the opinions of his companions
| GJust at this moment Joarizti en-
tered and asked to speak, but Gorilla
continued And, gentlemen, what
happens on this question happens
Historically, for it happens after the
government have adopted al
mnasnres to make the contribution