The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-07
CASTELAR, ON SPANISH AFFAIRS.
The Porter lmbroglio.
THE Work Before Congress.
Affairs in the South.
Report of Gen. Terry.
Gen. Jordan and Neutrality.
ETC., ETC.. ETC.. ETC.. Etc.
Report of Gen. Terr,
Gen. Jordan and Neutrality
THE SPANISH THRONE.
spe ech of seuor Castelar, In the Cortes Upon
the Can ndidature of the Duke Of Aosta.

the Candidature of the Duke Of Aesta.
In reply to Prims speech in the Cortes, intro.
ducng the Aosta candidature, CASTELAR, moved
vote Of censure. He passed on thus
"Now, then, to the candidature. Measuring
the grandeur of the point as compared to my
weak forces, if my conscience did not impel
me, / would renounce my thankless task. The
present situation of Spain may be summed up
in one graphic escription-substitutio of the
personal policy of General Prim for the dynasty
policy of Isabella H. This has brought
on a series of evils-in the interior, chaos; in
the exterior, war. Ii | were given to
recriminations there would now spring from
my lips the records of the countless times
have prophesied that the attempt to secure
foreign king would result in fearful catastro-
phe. Sad were my presentiments, but far sad
der has been the reality! Oh, when hear the
lamentations of widows aud orphaus-when
contemplate the ruins of the cities destroyed
when feel the heat of the fires which send up
clouds of blood into the air, filed with tears -
when ] see half a million of unburied corpses
exhaling pestilence from their remains, and
Paris, the great capital Of mankind, threatened,
like Rome, by Alaric-I cannot comprehend,
you monarchcal Ministers of Spain, how it is
you have ot disappeared from view, buried be-
meath the weight of your own remorse."
OF course Castelar, did not omit allusion to
Macmillan of Mexico. Here he brought his
impassiOned eloauence into full play
81 will present to General Prim an example
he ought to recollect as to how diplomatic mo-
parchies exist. The monarchical diplomacy of
Europe saw, with horror, in America, land
without king, as they see now with horror
another land on this side of the ocean without
a king. That land is called New Spaiu and
this land is called Old Spain. In both General
Prim had a prominent part to discharge. An
ilustrieus Prince of the House of Hapsburg
went to seat himself on the throne, elevated
thereto by European diplomacy, behind the back
OF the great North American Republic, then
compromised in frightful war, as now the
Republic of France is also compromised in
fvtfx ffNtlx A SNf hnae and
grand intelligence accompanied the Prince
to Mexico. What a tragedy! Hschylus and
Shakespeare have not written better. In
n few years that Emperor-his heart pierced by
Republican balls-was a corpse; aud that En-
press-her heart pierced by bitter grief-became
worse than corpse, became mad (sensation).
Oh, you may give to monarch great people
over whom to rule, great crown to wear, the
Palace of Madrid in which to dwell, the throne
of San Fernando for n footstooI, glorious re-
cords to hatter his pride, magical seats in the
heart OF the Guadarrama mountains, or by the
banks OF the majestic river immortalized by
Garcilaso, to recruit his frame, the Spanish
glories as notices for his shield, and the Esco-
rial for his tomb, but beyond all these grandeurs
joining to the shadow of General Prim-he will
see floating those two figures of the Emperor
and Empress of Mexico like the two figures oi
the Inferno of Dante, shedding rivers o
tears and rivers of blood, and teaching by theil
sad example how, under some antecedeuts, the
same catastrophes are repeated in the pages of
history"
With General Prim CASTELAR, was very severe
He said:-"What they were trying TO bring
would not be the king of the nation, or even o.
party, but the king of a fraction of a party
the Secretary of the Council of Ninisters-th(
responsible editor of their politics-the shadow
of General Prim reflected from the throne. Thii
was personal government with vengeance
Was General Prim one of those grand politi
clans, like Gladstone, who renew society be
cause they have have faith in one idea? Ger
tainly not. Was General Prim one of these
great statesmen like Cavour and Bismarck, whC
attempt high enterprises and aggrapdize thei
portunities afforded him of following suct
policy, but he had lost them both. His only
God was chance; his only religion, fanatcism
his only reliance, the army; his only faith, force
his only ideal, present chaos and his only aspi
ration for the future, the retention of power t,
his party.
This great sentiment Ondependence) is tn,
creative fire of our nationality. All our pro
yinees experience in the same degree thei
tanaticism for Spanish independence. Th
Basques believe themselves sprung from thei
soil like their trees, they give TO their dialec
the antiquity OF man, and they glory in neve
having mixed their blood with other blood
When other nations suffer-the Russians il
Moscow, the French in Paris-Fichte eXcitin!
the Germans against Napoleon, aud Victo
Hugo exciting the French against King William
and Byron with the Tyre In one hand and th
sword OF Leonidas in the other defending Greece
against the Turks-all, all turn their eyes to ou
country, and pointing those who fight for thei
respective nations to our smoking ruins, shov
them how to overthrow their conquerors, an,
how to fight and die for their country. Qiou
applause.) And you are going to give to thi
land a foreign king If Spain does not struggl
against this before consentir to such ignomin
we shall weep for Spain, and we shall mourn
like motherless children, for the most charaC
teristic virtues of our race will have died an
the spirit OF our country will have become e1
tiDgushed in the world"