New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-28
TIE KINGS PEdCE.

There is a very evident lesson to be learned
from the present state of Spain. Ever since
the revolution of 1868, the country has been
under the control of Il revolutionary govern
ment, holding its powes directly from the
Constituent Assembly, the product of universal
suffrage. The official head of the State has
been the Regent, Marshal Serrano, elected by
the Cortes with the hearty assent of the nation.
The Ministry is composed of prominent Lib
erals taken from the majority of the Legis-
lature The administration, thus constituted,
han given TO Spain the best government
it has known for many years. Al long IA
the reconstruction of the nation was in pro-
grss, as long as there seemed reasonable
prospect that liberty would be established
finally on the sure foundation of a democratic
system, Spain enjoyed period of comparative
tranquility. We do not forget of course, the
headlong and impatient instructions Of Nal
aga and Catalonia. But these were local and
partial. They did not enlist the cooperation
of other Provinces, and were easily suppressed.
Public opinion condemned them as tending to
retard the march of democracy, and as putting
a dangerous opportunity in tho hands of the
reaction.
But the gentlemen in the Cabinet and in
the Legislature who had so long looked to
politics as the source of their daily bread
grew every day more and more uneasy at this
quiet lapse, by the mere force of time, into
state of permanent lnterregnum. They saw,
with something like CONSERVATION, that the
people of Spain were learning to do without
King. They felt that the "interinity,r if
allowed to go on much longer, would drift
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their titles and their salaries in that new and
unexplored contingency. They began to bestir
themselves vigorously to bring in q King and
close the constituent period. For long time
every instrument they forged broke in their
hands. Don Fernando Of Portugal fatty
refused the peril0us hOnoc. The Duke of
Genoa was dragged out Of the ring by his
terrified mother, as soon ne. she had perused
a file of plsin-speaking Madrid journals.
Leopold of Hohenzollern was stupid
enough TO accept, and his one word of
assent threw Europe into a war in which he
and his candidacy passed out of sight But
when the war seemed ending in German tri-
unph, the sly plotters Of the revolution Of Sep
TENDER, recognizing what possibilities of virtual
humiliation hay in the importation of lieu
tenant of Bismarck to DO their King Stork,
turned their eyes to Italy once more, and
offered the crown to King Log of tie crown
hunting house of Savoy. They rushed his cleo
ton through tho COrtes under the severest
Government pressure, and sent a Committee 10
Florence to tender him the diadem of st. Fer
dinand. The Ministry made lyric speeches,
full of milennal promise of the coming of good
times with his Majesty, and Prince Amadeus
talked to the Committee about his sword and
his intentions as if no really believed in all
that theatrical rhetoric.
But the news that we have since received
both by mail and telegraph, are Of nature to
nip the budding hopes Of tlese sanguine royal
lists. From every side comes Il rain of protests
Don Carlos claims M his own country he
has never seen. Doha Isabel denOunces in
hysterical periods the outrage against heI
anointed infant. Montpensier's friends are pre-
pairing for action. The Moderados are renew.
ing their organization, which embraces many
of the veteran cOnspiratOrs of the kingdom
The indomitable Republican agitators who
have just returned to the country under the
late amnesty, clamOr without reserve for vic
lent resistance toI the "Macaroni King.n He
gal clubs are forming throughout tho country
and do not even give themselves the troubl,
to DO secret. A widespread and omnous dis
content is waking and giving lvoice in ever,
province OF tho Peninsula,
| This is tho result Of tho election Of The mon