New-York tribune., 1869-06-17
MUNdRCHY IN SPAIN.

MONARCHY IN SPAIN.
Nothing more forcibly illustrates the neces-
sity of organic political changes in Europe than
| the fact that it was after the late Revolution,
at once taken for granted that regenerated
| Spain must necessarily be governed by a
hereditary monarchy. The same opinion pre-
vailed in 1908, when the BOurbOns were ex-
PEELED, and the crown was vested in Joseph
Bonaparte and his heirs male yet the Spanish
population, at that time, exhibited a fierce de-
termination not to submit to a foreign adven-
turer. 1t has now been supposed that the same
game can be triumphantly played by scion of
the ruined House of Orleans 1t is true, in
our opinion, that those who speak of the Duke
as merely a Bourbon scarcely do him justice.
| We think that the ancient feud between his
own House and that of the Bourbons should
be considered and, so far as it goes, that it
| is somewhat in his favor. His father and his
| grandfather had great political vices Heredi-
| tary opposition to the Court undoubtedly gave
| a liberal tnge to their actOns-they were in
! triguers, but they necessarily intrigued upon
| the side of the people, and sought the masses
| they intended to use. The Orleans princes
have always been better educated and naturally
| more intelligent than their cousins of Bourbon,
who, after the Fourteenth Louis did
! nothing but blunder. " He had lost says
| Mad de Genlis Of Louis Philippe, all
" that he had inherited from birth and
&" fortune - nothing remained but what he
! " had received from nature and me-" In
| turn. he took great pains in the education of
| his own children, so that as princes they were
| NoH md oil of fhapn
| had good reputation for amability and
! talent, presenting a fOrcible and favorable
contrasy to pure Bourbons and to most OF the
old French noblcSSe, having hardly anything
! of the pride, extravaganza, and vanity OF that
| body They were traned--all the sons OF
Louis Philippe-to be useful to the State, and
| it must be admitted that they were useful.
Everything promised q long and felicitous
reign of their House. when the Spanish mar
riages negotiated by their father came and
ruined him, costing him the moral appreciation
of the best part Of Europe and casting serious
! doubts upon his veTacity and his personal
| integrity, putting grave argument into the
! hands Of the French Democracy, and at last
sending him into exile. He had shown, at
| last mean and mousing ways unworthy of a
monarch and his hold upon the French people
was not sufficient to maintain him upon his
! throne.
IT is now stated upon good authority that
| Montpenser has in Spanish affairs exhibited
an inherited capacity for intrigue - that his
money went far to effect the expulsion of the
! Queen; and there is in Spain feeling that, to
! borrow the words of RochefOucault, he "will
promise according to his hopes, and perform
| a. L. . IL H., 1ya
| n better monarch than any living Bourbon, is
saying very little; for most of the relics of
that family are foolish by nature and, having
never got the Right Divine of Kings out of
! their heads, are unfit TO reign either as kings
or queens One cannot but wonder that the
! idea of n republic should have been so dis
! tinctly dismissed by the Chamber; but we be-
| licyc that the dismissal is only for time In
! some respects, there is no nation in Europe SO
well fitted for republic as the Spanish; for
/ the personal pride of all classes of men which
! there exists might under some circumstances,
naturally tend TO democracy Bad govern
ment, rs bad as possible, has never
destroyed, has hardly tanned, the ma
! tive fierceness of a people poor in
! deed but proud, and for long time
! accustomed 10 take a decided though some
! what tumultuous part in public affairs and yet
| still people whom the religious element has
accustomed TO all necessary sclf-cOntrol, except
under extraordinary circumstances. We do not
believe that this badly governed race, which
was once felt as n power in the world, and
which is still mindful of the traditional glories
of Spain and still proud of its noble literature,
! will submit always TO the enslavement 10y
! Church and State which has been its portion.
| 1t has proved already that it will have nothing
to do with an adventurer in search of a crown.
| 1t refused, in darker days, TO submit to foreign
aggression even with ameliorated government.
! IL has had quite enough of the sort of liberty
which British alliances would bring. In short,
it happens to be exactly in the right position
! and with requisite power to act for itself; and
! if not to-day, then tomorrow, it will so act
1.-THE reason, Sancho,' said his MASTER "why
"thOu fcelest that pain all down thy back, is,
that the stick that gave it to thee was OF
"length to that extent" The Spanish people
know too well the length of royal sticks. The
final disposition of the Montpensier notion goes
far toward securing a Republic in fact, if not
in name. Meanwhile, let us hope for Spanish
Independence of BourbOns, and for Cuban ln-
dependence of Spain
The Peace Jubilee in Boston has produced
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