New-York tribune., 1872-04-25
TIE CARLIST RERLLLION.


The Carlsts of Spain rise in the Spring Al
regularly as does the Mississippi River. II
that season of youth and renovation young
mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts OF con-
quest. The young Bourbon who has been ed
ucated TO believe he was born to make the
happiness Of Spain, is too full of life and vigor
TO allow a single year to pass without an at
tcmpt to regain the throne he con-
sders his own. Every year he begins
his insurrcction little earlier than
the year before. In his hot imDatiencc he has
worked his opening day back from August IN 1869
to April in 1872 He is young man OF great
physical force, deficient education, and medl-
ocrc ability, with all the mysticism OF the mid
die ages in his religion, and all the arrogance
of Louis XIV in his political ideas. He be-
lieycs. with an entire conviction which is
rare among men of his age, that he
is an instrument i'll the hands Oh
Heaven to reGstablish the power OF the
Church and the Monarchy in the Peninsula.
He is followed by men equally ignorant and
equally devoted and was formerly attended
by some of tho best military and political
talent in the kingdom, though the best OF his
fathers adherents are now dead or in retire
mcnt. The present movement seems to have
been almost n spontaneous one. 1t was
at first treated with some contempt by
the Government, but our last dispatches
represent the CaIlist forces now Ill the field
as amounting to 10000, and the rising has be-
come so formidable that royal decree has
been issued declaring the infested provinces
of the north under martial law. A consider
o1l hac them
we may now expect the usual complement OF
hotly contested engagements, in which the
Government will always gain a glorious
victory.
The immediate occasion of this revolt was
found in the elections which have just re-
suited in large majority for the Government
They were certainly conducted with the most
shameless disregard of law and decency. Mr..
Sagasta, conscious that he was in q decided
minority in the country, determined to gain
the elections at all hazards, and issued a
series of circulars to his subordinate
Office holders which even our Mr.. Murphy
would have hesitated to execute. What the
nature of them was may be inferred from the
COPY of a circular which Mr. Martinez, form
crly Civil Governor of TarragOna and now
Editor of the Tertulia, says he received last
year. 1t directs him to make known to all
employees that they can neither be indifferent
nor passive; they must work heartily for the
Government candidate or be dismissed; it ad-
vises the employment of spies to offer bribes
TO opposition electors, and then to denOunce
those who accept them recommends the arrest
of persons who utter UiuaS to the Republic or to
Carlos VII. "tO inutilize opposition votes and
"terrify the doubling" aud suggests that
these cries may be promoted by confidential
agents and then gives an incredible pro-
gramme for the deliberate stufing of the bal
lot boxes. Whether this document is genuine
or not, its publication has produced great
feeling, and all the opposition parties bitterly
denOunce the alleged fraud and coercion by
which the Government majority has been OBJ
tanned. 1t is certainly larger than any one
expected. The Ministerial party is said to
number in all 237 members, and the
Opposition only 40, divided into SO Republi-
cans 3S Carlsts, IS Radicals. and 10 Modcr-
ados. BY our late dispatches it seems that
the Republicans and Radicals have taken their
seats in the COrtes in Madrid, but the Carlsts,
obcying the summons Of their pugnacous
brevct King, have shown their sense of the
iegality OF the election by refusing to accept
the seats they have gained, and by raising
throughout Biscay and Navarro the banner of
revolt.
This insurrection, like so many which have
preceded it, will probably fail. There is no
doubt that it ought to fail. The hope of Spain
at this moment is not among those fanatical
devotees of scepter and crown which now
crowd the mountain deflcs where Charlemagne
and all his peerage fell. 1t is in Madrid,
among those Radicals and Republicans who
choose to combat fraud with publicity, who
prefer to leave to their opponents all the viO-
lations of law, and who propose TO fight out
rage and corruption by the true weapons of
democracy. discussion and investigation in the
press and the legislature.
Secretary Boutwell's bill to encourage ship