The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-13
CASTELAR, on the House Of savoy.
A MOST scArHING AND ELoQUTNT DELINEA<
TON.

Emilio CASTELAR,, the John Philpot Cur
ran of the Spanish cortes, thus in a late :
extraordinary speech settled accounts with
the house Of Savoy:
The persons Of the Dukes of Savoy
change, but their volatility Of character,
and their desperate, unsuitable ambition |
policy. as binding link of their race. |
Poor feudal senors, unquiet and warlike, |
for few pieces Of gold and six hunting |
dogs, they bought from the Emperor Sigis- |
mnnd the feudal title of Duke of Savoy.
basore. IL tbs mode only ie did 20 t he leave
their eagles nests and their bears caves.
In their Alpine defile-in their valley of
Aosta. which title is perpetnally carried by
one of their sons from the time they re-
ceived it from the Emperor Henry VII
there does not penetrate one ray Of the sun
or one ray of human intelligence! From
their mountain chains they asked for them.
selves all of France, all Switzerland, all
Italy! They rested not. They changed
their flag q hundred times in the same war,
tween the Pontifcate and the empire, the
Dukes of Savoy were by turns allies of
Frederick III. and Innocent lV.--now Pa
pal, now anti-Papal. In the wars between
Charles V. and Francis l. the Dukes of Sa-
voy dawdied with both these arbiters of
came in turn their instruments and their
| enemies--uncles of the one, cousins of the
| other, they deceived both with equal per-
fdy. In the wars between Philip II. and
Henry w. the Dukes of Savoy wore uni
form on one side of the colors of France
and the other side of the colors of Spain,
and they then turned and returned
their uniform according to the turns and
returns of fortune. In the war of the Val
teina, sustained by Richelieu on one side
and Austria and Spain on the other, three
princes of the House of Savoy were found
equally useful in diplomacy and war, and
each one of these served one of the belliger-
ents-Victor Amades served France, Man
ricio, Austria; and Tomas, Spain-thus de-
ceiving all and procuring solely their own
| In the wars of Louis XIV. the Dukes of
Savoy, among tho orgies of Venice, en-
tered into the league of Spain, England and
Holland against that monarch, but this did
not prevent tho Dukes of Savoy, in a little
time, appearing as the generalissimos Of
Milan, dressed as domestics of the great
king--ever lacqueys! In the war of
Spanish Succession, which opened the
eighteenth century, the Dukes of Sa-
voy, after having received the fatal
Inheritance of Carlos H.-after having
cesses with the founder of the Bourbon dy-
nasty in Spain-after having accepted for
money the charges of generalissimos Of the
Franco-Spanish troops of ltaiy-received
money, subsidies and pensions fran our
enemies, Queen Anne and the Emperor
Leopold, thus selling themselves to all the
POWERFUL What more shall say The
soldier of Novara, the enemy of Austria
Charles Albert, was the soldier of the Holy
Alliance, the lieutenant Of Angouleme, the
aide-de-camp of the tyrannic Ferdinand
!, VII, he who, with sacrilegious hand, threw
1,<~,, kn fhn F0vfo rof inr o1S
he who fought in the Trocadero against
the defenders of our liberty and of oul
country!
THE PRESENT KING A COWARD AND PER
JURER,
? and the soldier King of Italian independ
, ence, is the one who asked peace from
Austria on his knees; who received
E crown from the hands of Garibaldi in Ma
pies and paid for it to Garibaldi with
ball in Aspromonte! who, for fear of Ma
poleon, left the Italian patriots, abandone'
in Mentona, when they fought for the lib
r erty of Rome, but who, when Napoleon
o had fallen, instantly seized upon Rome
d the sacrifice of France as testified in Paies
8 tro, in Magenta and in Solferino, and VIII
i has turned his shoulders upon France i
d her anguish and her grief with an iDgrati
o tude which, if it is not promptly castigate
r. in an implacable manner, will make on
j
= or of God in the heavens
h Think you that men of this sort can al
., ford any kind of guarantees to Europe
If it suits them they will Cypress til
- Pope with all sorts of oppression. If
v. suits them they will place themselves &
D. the service of the Pope, and Cypress, b
q. him and at his side, all consciences. I'll
us fact is that while Victor Emmanuel has al
D. cended to Byzantine autocracy, the POP
u, has descended to the category of the pa
~ <~f A,l
goes to Rome, when Victor Emmanu
til finds himselfin the city of wonders, whe
he he sees the Chief of Christianity converte
mt into his head chaplain, when he remembe
CIV that France has decreased while Italy b,
1t increased, when he recollects that daugl
N, ter of his reigns in Lisbon and that a sc
IT. of his reigns in Madrid, may there not pa
of through his agitated mind dreams
his founding new empire of Charlemagne
s. Loud cries of No, No.m WI
ne mott Know you not that in tia
there exists a Pontiical and C9saris
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