The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10

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feudal cities are distinguished from the muni- |
cipal cities, in that the latter have more
riches, more commerce, more enlightenment! |
l maintain that all the Ayuntami- |
entos dissolved and not proceeded against |
within the thirty days according to law, ought |
TO 90 to their Town Halls, and command their |
constables to take by the arm and expel the |
military Ayuntamientos, who are not the |
Ayuntamientos of the people and of univer-
sal suffrage, but Ayuntamientos of the Gov
ernment, and therefore factious and rebels |
Intense commotion; cries of dto8 &! 6tohI |
Members on the Government side protesting;
President ringing the bell and calling loudly
for order.) Call you this authority
or liberty Even the Minister of Fomento,
who. 1 will do him the justice to believe, is
very liberal-even he has forgotten the jaw,
or else he is ignorant of what has been done
in his own department. Do You not recolect,
gentlemen, that the government of Narvaez
menaced an obscure professor in the Univer-
sity, who said:-" Seated in my chair,
1 will wait until the Government come and
with violent hand, tear the gown from off
my shoulders. / am strong in my right and
my tranquility" The Government did come
and laid their hand on the gown of the pro-
fessor, and then came the events of 10th
April, and they burnt Wejr hdadS (Applause.)
Even yet remember that immortal session
in which one of the greatest orators of this
chamber rose to the attitude of Mirabeau and
Danton in denunciation of this act, and
stamped in the faces of the agents of that
Government with his words of fire the brand
of ma5Sord6IeSI tremendous applause.) Do
you know what has happened now? More
than one, more than two, more than three
even the very schoolmaster, poor fellow, who
taught me to read-have been expelled only
for being Republicans. Is this the freedom
of education proclaimed by the Revolution
Of ~, oh hoe win
lated, every law broken. You cannot kill
man illegally without making yourselves
criminals, neither can you kill those supe-
rior individualities, the family, or the
municipal, without committing a social homi-
eide. Shall we be SO mGterialistic that we
can only see the assassin when the hot blood
of the victim spurts out? Well, then, to
assassinate by sufiocation one aspiration of
the human cUnscience-one thought Of the
soul, is by assassination to destroy a social
| personality. You cannot blot out a star
without destroying the equilibrium of the
universe. (Cheers.) You cannot destroy
right, even the smallest, without disturbing
the equilibrium of society. The people most
devoted to liberty are the Saxon. Amongst
them is the axiom that there is no offense
which cannot be reached by legal justise.
But the Saxon people to systematic violation
of the law have always opposed armed resist
| ance. They wrote it III the Magma Charta.
! Cheers They wrote it in the second chapter
of the statuets of William and Mary. Cheers
| There the tribunals have absolved homicides
| committed on the persons of officers of the gov
ernment, when done in the just defense Of
the right of liberty-as sacred as the right of
life. Amongst us in Spain, there are
! few of these habits of resistance within
the right. We know how to be war
riors guerilleros and soldiers; we
know how to be excellent conspirators, but
ia
cheers.) The theory of liberty has not pene-
trated into the Government before as. We
have not the national sovereignty! What has
all been for? Because they wished to restore
the monarchical prestige. For this the Minis
ters of Grace and Justice and the Gober-
nacions issued their celebrated and tyrannical
circulars, to restore the monarchical prestige
which died on the 20th of September. For
this they prohibited our vivas and our mot
toes to the Republic! For this they dissolved
our committees! For this they disarmed our
militia CHEERS But, Senores Of the Gov
ernment, addressing the Ministry, a very
grave thing has happened to you. After
having as you thought restored the monarchi-
cal prestige by the success of your arms
against the republicans, you have completely
annihilated the prestige amongst the con-
servatives, the union liberal, by the unhappy
idea of your candidate. You have discon-
certed the republicans; you have dis
concerted the union liberal; why did
Senores Ardanaz and Silvela quit the Minis
try? Why did there disappear also from it
the personifcation of the Revolution of Sep
tember, the Brigadier Topete? Why have
you lost almost all the conservative forces?
Even if you have not lost the Regent it is
because you have shut him up in a golden
cage Immense applause and laughter O.,
rare coincidence The king did not appear
when you treated of religious freedom; the
king did not appear when you treated of uni
versal suffrage; the king did not appear when
you laid down the basis of our constitution;
but yesterday, as if deep called unto deep,
the Minister of War solemnly notified this
assembly of the advent of the king at the
same time that he asked us for 80, 600 men to
augment the army. General Primo, not
to augment it, Well, then, $4,000 for the
army-it is all the same. The king has not
appeared on the carpet when treating of
votes, batwhen treating of bayonets. (Cheers
and laughter This candidature of the Duke
of Genoa proves to me that you are ancient
republicans as we are. You don't under
stand one word of monarchical theology
Your king reminds me of that fantastical
being created artifcially by Wagner, the dis
ciple of Faust-that being who came out of
an alchemistic composition of acids, phos-
phorus, and other substances, in the midst of
grand cabalistic words and in conjunction
with don't know how many stars; and the
first thing he did on breaking the retort was
to fly off in the arms of the devil, and leave
his padre cicutifcO in abandonment and des-
pair. loud laughter.) Yes Your artificial
king differs from the natural kings, as the
creation of Warner differs from the GRAND