The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-29
THE IN0UISITION.

How i Was Turned TO Account in the = Debates
Sen6r CasteIar Vas not the enc oniy deputy Who Gre
ated sensation in the Spanish COrtes on May 4,
when the religious clauses of the new Constitution
were under discussion. Senior Echegaray, young
deputy, who then made his maiden effort, created
wonderful sensation by an ausion to discovery
which has been recently made in Madrid in the
course of the dwellings and excavations now in
progress for city improvements. The workmen
lighted upon the old site OF the auto dG teS of the
Inquisition, called in the history of that fearful
tribunal the QuenGduTo de la Cruz (burnng place
of the Cross.) The cutting of new road through
that part of the city has laid bare like geological
strata, long black layers supermposed one above
the other at distances Of one two feet in the sand
stone and clay Some OF these layers extend 50 feet
in horizontal direction, and at first sight look like
regular geological strata, but are in reality the
remains of the Inquistion fires! They consist
of coal coaguiated with human fat bones the re-
mains of snged hair, and the shreds OF burnt gar
ments! Great excitement has been created by the
discovery, and the people OF Madrid have visited the
spot in thousands to satisfy themselves of the fact
and TO carry away some memento OF that dark age of
intolerance and cruelty. Senior Echegaray, in com
batting religious unity turned this discovery TO elo
quent account
the principle that error and soil have no rights In
this place Senor Caneja has said that the Church
never prosecuted individuals. In lieu OF the word
church let us substitute another word, the theo-
cratic power Has the theScratic power never per-
secuted individuals? Walk through the street of
Ancha de San Bernardo turn to the right and there,
close to the monument OF Daoiz and Vearde, you
viii the Quemaduro de la Cruz! Know you
what is the Quemaduro de la cruz? VIII explain
it to you. wish you would go there and see it for
yourselves / wish that these debates
could take place upon that dreadful
site in order to see if any could be found to de-
| fend there the unity of religion The 'Quemaduro
de la Cruz is at present great earth cutting may
say a geological cutting. Know you what Is a geo
| logical cutting? Nature opens her grand book and
extends to its pages, that is to say, opens the
earth to u.s. and there in regular layers clay
slate sand nt etc. They are the lives of the great
| book in which geology enables us to study the
| formation of the planet on which we live
The Quemaduro de la Cruz is also great
| but dark page, which unfolds sad but useful
lesson. In those alternate layers of the Que
| maduro de la Cruz you will see a stratum OF
coal impregnated with human fat and after that the
| remains of caCined bones and after that layer of
sand which has been thrown there to cover up these
remains and then another layer OF coal, and another
of bones and then another OF sand and so continues
the horrible mass! MOI many days ago (and vOuch
/ for the fac0 a boy with stick happened to be
| poking INTO this mass, and drew forth from those
LAYERS three objects full of eoquence-three grand
| discOurses in favor of religious liberty! These
| were a piece OF OXydized iron, human rib
| almost cacined, and a braid of hair burned at
| one extremity! (Sensation) These constitute
| IDENTITIES Who defend religious unity would sub
| mit them TO a severe interrogation. | would ike
them 10 ask that haibraid how the cold sweat oozed
from s roots and how 1t stood erect ON the head OF
the victim as the flames crept up 10 IT, would IKE
them 10 ask that poor rib how the heart OF the un-
| happy Jew palptated against it, would IKE them
| 20 ask that piece OF iron, when perhaps was guy
how many dOorous CALCULATIONS now many Sr,Ss @ % o
anguish II stihed, and how II became oAyulAeu ny IS
! ceving and retaining the blood-lmpregnhteu DIeasl
OF the victim, so that even the nara IRON hau more
| bowels OF compassion, and was more huulane any
tendeIhearted than the Infamous execnIOnerO VI lhA
Infamous the0cracyp