The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-06

10 france. Ho was the great, the world
renowned guerilla. He followed Napoleon over his
whole course when no came to Madrid to see
Joseph. n he could have caught him riie-shot
would have anticipated Waterloo. This great man
showed mankind how Spanards fight. He and his
followers swarmed in the hills. They kept in our
highlands When the Frcnchmen came In force
they melted away. They hung upon his flank, his
rear his army trains his garrison outposts; and 1t
was war, war, war You see this is our policy
now. Your President, Grant, does not know this,
nor your General with the one leg who Is Minister
here. These men are only soldiers, who don't read
or know much, like our SerranO, whe Ia always
swearing, and Topete, who spends his holy Sab
baths at cockfghts. What do men of that kind
know about history or statesmanships Nothing.
You cannot expect 1t. But your Secretary Fish
your Prime Minister'S great man; he knows his
heard that stokes had wounded him in duel
for he knows Spain. He has probably told your
son you changed ground on the Houard case. Bless
You, we knew all about 1t at the time. When your
onisegged Minister was nurtypg about from
Martos to the King we knew there would be moth
Ing OF it, for your great Secretary OF state had said
not offend the just pride Of thai ancient honorable
and valiant race. Remember that BY Spain Nap0.
leon fell and sho will attack you On the seas as she
swarm around your coasts. Not ship can leave
New York or Chicago or New Orleans or Delaware.
that we need pay no attention to your Minister.
he would have different kind OF Instructions In
man ana knows Spain, ana happy should America
be to have him In her government"
Ny pasS snd oolc a s g far
lions which our Minister brought from the United
peremptory demand for the release OF Houard,
were supplemented by letter nom Mr.. Fish, al:
ciemeacy So what had been communicated to the
Spanish government by Its Minister, and SO on to
the newspapers and the club houses, was In time
confirmed by Mr.. Fish himself. And then came the
sudden change In the Spanish mind and manner.
General Grant was really afraid Of Spain. All that
buster, soldier President playing with diplomacy
through soldier Minister, and only saved from
bringing unspoken calamitles upon the country by
the wisdom and the knowledge Of the great Secre-
tary Of State.
now AMERICA MIGHT SECURE FREEDOM IN CUBA
do not think you can exaggerate the evil effect
Of this Houard business upon our relations with
Spain. The spaniards are proud people, and have
the stntes ey ha 4 the
eomp S the King to Change his Colonial policy
United States In the matter of slavery. The United
States have abolished slavery and yet its near neigh
cony to aTss %sa ana
Power. So long as slavery remains In Cuba 1t in
directly remains in the United States. While we
FORE no policy has been more earnestly urged upon
SPAR, than the passage Of some law ex *:
oS aun ae morS a
especially pleasing to the United mt States We'll
Cortes under tho inspiration Of Senior Moret:
party-a type Of the best craftsmanship Spain
can produce and Is now Minister to London by the
appointment OF zorrilla. The Intention OF Morets
was regarded as great concession to liberal ideas
upon the part Of Spain and compliment to the
passed than it was suspended, and slavery is no
nearer abolition In Cuba than 1t was before. There
be or to
be In earnest Tor month this law would be put IN
force There can be no reasonable moral doubt
augurated when he returned from Washington had
been allowed to bear its full and natural fruit 1t
This was part of that policy. It was something
near to the heart Of President Grant. You will re.
member me that ne made a to IN one OF
thing with Spain it could induce the enforcement
Of a law already passed and only suspended be,
w should By enforced DC not me sns
with conservative liberal tendencies, to your cor
respondent, 'to dissarrange our economical ultra
montana policy to elect &c, General Grant: The
Cuba. We should like to have Cuba free colony.
to suggest that Grant had assumed great unpOpu.
iarity by his forbearance to Cuba. "Forbearance!"
s reply Is easier .san n Of
Power to forbear with another-a naval Power
which has SIX ships to its one.' In other words,
you cannot take any shape OF this question that
does not show the universal and firm belief that
the United States is afraid Of span and Is deferred
from any development Of liberal policy by the in
nuence Of the Spanish government.
WHAT THE CARLIsTs REALLY wANT-THE INQUIsITIoN.
This may be attributed to ignorance. The Spanish
mind is under cloud OF ignorance and superstition
that no revolution has penetrated. The e0quence
OF Castelar, the fortiude and courage Of Mayal the
incessans prOpagander Of the republicans have
done much to elevate Spain. There is no Inqnisi-
ton, and no longer supremacy OF the Church.
And yet no one doubts that If the agricultural
population was thoroughly canvassed, they would
vote for the return of the lnquisition and the SUI
premacy Of the Church There Is nothing Of Carl
and war In the Basque provinces and Catalonia but
this clerical influence taking FORM ! had con-
who was prevented by his years from having any
active part in the nprisings Of course, he said,
macy. BY the old Saic law debarrng females
from the throne the crown came to Don Carlos. II
he is not King Of Spain then never did king reign
by Gods grace and hereditary descent. Those
women, Isabella and her mother, were i'm.
postors-and see what came OF It," "But
'that You mean to restore the supremacy
of the Roman Church and to reopen the Inqusl-
ton why notr was the response, You throw
gard it as the embodiment of cruelty. In earlier
years the Holy ONCE may have been unusually Sc
we're In its discipline, just as In your country we
have heard that you hanged old women for witch
craft, and that In England they burned bishops.
wiser, no more humane, no less inclined to punish
sin with pain than yours. The Jnquistion does not
mean the rack, the pulleys, the ever-dripping wa
ter, the faggot and the stake any more than the
punishment OF treason means all the horrible forms
written In an unrepeaed law OF England-the glib
bet and the quartering block and bleaching heads
on Temple Bar. We need the Inquisitlon In Spain;
We never needed 1t more than we do now Society
seethes in corruption. Look around you. This IL
the largest and finest cafe In all Madrid. That cus-
ter Of persons yonder Is composed Of bull fighters;
they are the heroes OF this gathering. That lady
very respectable and wealthy SenOrita -, whose
amours with the bull fighters the talk OF Spain.
pretends to sell you history OF the world, really
deals In prints and books OF the most oathsome and