Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-02-24

To saw in the matter. It is in obedience
to this principle that when the yonng
King of Spain, about 10 leave Italy SEM
the other day to ask the Pope for his bieS'
sing, the latter replied If you 60 20
Spain as Duke of Aosta, I impart to you
nv blessing but if you go there as hine
of Spain, it is my duty to tell yon that you
have no right to the throne OF SPAIN wnicn
bel0uos to another dynasty" That Is TO
saw. the Spanish nation. no matter no"
weary of the rule of profigate Bourbon
queen, have no right to elect another
ruler. Spain belongs to the Bourbons for
ever, by disine right.
The Prince who represents the eloer
branch of the Bourbons is Henri, Duo de
Bordeaux, otherwise Count OF Chamoord'
STYLED Henry V. by the Legitimists Edu-
Gated in the most ultramontane views,
his purpose would be to obliterate all the
progress of the last eighty years aud to
bring back France to her former condl'lon
before 1889. So deeply eDgrafted III the
minds of these fossil Bourbops is the idea
that France belongs to them Ia fee SIMPLE
that it crops out on the most lll-tlmeo
occasions It was but few days ago that
this Count de Chambord, in an address
TO the French nation. recalled to them
that he is the successor of ST. Louis.
Henry ". and Louis XIV, and that his
heart bleeds at the thought OF the caiaml-
ties endured by the city, which each OF his
ancestors used to call "my good town OF
Paris" A little more tact would have
taught this Pretender the folly of evoklng
q formula which can only remind the
French people of the days OF despotism In
which Bourbon King called everything
his, and said I am the State. Come what
may, we can safely predict that France
will never again be under the rule OF
Bourbon of the elder branch.
It is evident that the Republic has no
root in the affections of the French people.
It's name is associated only with failure
and disaster. Whatever the future may
bring forth, its day has not yet come.
As for the Empire. it seems hardly pos
sible that the French can desire it again.
Every day makes it more evident that the
present calamities are due to the Ma
poleonic dynasty-due to the recollectlons
of the unscrupulous conquests OF the first
Napoleon, as well as to the blunders and
selfishness of the third. It is the Empire
which put on the shelf and drove out OF
the service all the able officers who would
not bend the knee, and filled their places
with set of incapables without any other
claim but their sycophancy.
All things considered, if France must
be a monarchy, the Orleans Princes offer
her the best chance of obtaining order and
liberty under a constitutional system.
Their father was a good enough king, as
kings go. He never bore arms against
his country as his cousins, the Bourbons,
did. He claimed no divine right, but was
willing to hold his crown by the will of the
people. His children, the present princes,
were brought up in the public schools and
colleges like the sons of any bourgeois,
and they served their country we'll in the
army and Che navy. The Count of Paris,
the grandson of Louis PHILIPPE, who is
the Orleans Pretender," has been edu-
Gated according to modern ideas and prin-
ciples and there is no danger of his be-
coming despot or an ambitious warrior.
A constitutional monarchy, with an Or
leans at its head, holding his crown
from the will of the people, is probably
the best transition between the present
chaotic state and the Republic of the
future. The great danger, however, in
France is that the minorities do not know
how to yield to the will of the majority.
This has been the curse of France for ff ty
years and more, and it is but too probable
that civil war may be inaugurated by the
republicans and imperialists if the voice
of the majority should decide against