The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-12-28

low the example OF the constitutional ira
dittons with which l nave 9eeh brought
thc-irst citizen iu presence OF the national repre-
sentativcs. The annals Of Spain are filled with
glorious names-those OF doughty knights, OF
great and renowned cartails anI navlgators, OF
famous kings. know not II it will envy fortune
to shed my blood for my new country, or If 1t
shall be gran'e ed to me 10 add yet another page to
the many pages which have celebrated the glorles
Of spain. But in every event am very sure, be-
cause that will depend on myself alone and not on
fortune, that the Spanards VIII always be able to
say nr the king whom they nave chusan that his
good faith was allie 70 rise ABOVE party struggles,
and that he had no other wish In his heart than
for the concord and the prosperity Of the nation.
Ex-oueen IsubelIa's Protest Against the
Duke Of Aosta.
The following is translation Of the protest OF
the eX Queen OF Spain against the Duke d'Aosta's
aces ptance Of tile Spanish crown referred to in
ihc kilograms from Madrid published some tim 0
since:
TO THE sr4NIARDs.
Events which tits neither my wish no. my duty
TO recall, and by constant determination and ar
dent desire to constitute your happiness, even
at the price Of the greatest Sacrifices made me
decide In 1863 upon abandoning my native land.
Since then have not ceased TO address to Heaven
my most IerVent supplicati0ns that you might en-
10y the peace and we lbeing which you so much
Z, eSeTVe, anu vi NHlCl d Li+aoAhJ SiCSaJ vi PoNCl
had for time deprived Jou.
Wishing TO render legal this step, so important
and so painful to me, as wei as 10 avoid lts being
attributed to violence, and It's forming a reason
able preteXL at some 1utlrP time more or less
distant, for new DISTURBANCES, i drew up on the
25,h OF June OF the presently scar, free ard sp0n-
taneous abdication Of all my purely political
rights, with al those which l possessed to the
Crown OF Spain, transmitting them TO my be.
loved son, Don Alfonso de- Bourbon, Prince Of
Asturlas. and reservlng to myself such rights as
had not the aforesaid political character fiat
tered myself that this act Of abnegation, as spon-
taneous as it was sincere, would have calmed
over.eXcted passions; wouidihave inspired cond-
dcuce In those. who, refusing TO do Inc justice,
might have considered my person an obstacle 10
the consolidation OF PUBLIC liberty. and would
II n, SO profoundly disturbed by revolution
which OF necessity has produced innumeraole
eylls.
But it has not pleased God to grant as yet my
feryent prasers. The revolution continues lis
career, and has Just disavowe'l the rights OF my
son-Who Is to day your legf innate King, accord
ing to all the Spanish c1nStrutlOns-by calling 10
the thrCEe Of St Ferdinand and OF Charles 8
foreigner whose merits however great cannot
entile him to be your sovereign, In despite Of the
rights OF whole dynasty, the only one Which mas
in It's favor that legitimacy, consecrated by the
lapse Of ages and by constitutions, which it has
been signal folly to disavow.
should be wanting TO py sacred duties as
mother, and as head Of my family, did not pub
lish solemn protest against such an act spolia-
lon, and address 1t TO yoh before any ono else,
because 1t is ou who are called upon TO repair this
great violation OF right OF which an innocent boy,
who cannot be and ought not ohe, held respon-
slble for the errors unjustly attributed to
his ancestors, II nov the Victm There
is nothing more distant from my mind and
purpose than an appeal to vlolencc; enough
blood has heen shed by the Spanish penp pie in sus.
talning me upon the throne OF my ancestors. l
would not have more to flow in order to re.estab.
lIsh INV dear son upon It, My sole desre ls that
public opinion being rectided, may be convinced
that only by the establishment Of the future upon
The old and timehonored bIss OF monarchy can
Spain recover the elevated and respected position
which she for 80 long q time held IN the world;
and that when the revolutionary torrent, which
yon surely look upon will horror, snail have
spent Itself, the restoration may be brought about
pacilcaily, which, while filling with Joy my ma
{, rnal heart, will console the grief which feel,
not for my own. hut for your misIortunes.
Geneva, November 81, 1870. lsABEL.