The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-14

Latest from spain-Ordor Maintained,
but Dangers ON Every Side.
Grouping together our latest dispatches on
the situation in Spain, it appears that the abb
dication of King Amadeus gives satisfaction
on all sides in Rome that neither King
Victor Emmanuel nor tho Italian government
gave any advice to Amadeus although he had
frequently telegraphed to Rome in reference
to his abdication that the Communists from
France and England were hurrying to Spain
that in Berlin the patience and courage of the
young King in his difficult position were uni
versally praised; that in Paris it was reported
that the Spanish army was divided upon the
question of the Republic that the cavalry
largely composed of aristocrats and mon
archists) were in favor of the Grown and Of
the Prince of Austria as sovereign, while the
infantry ia vor the Republic ; that serious dis
turbances and fighting had occurred in
Madrid-a report which lacks confirmation |;
that royal preparations were being made in
Lisbon for the reception of the retiring King
and his family, en- route, by way Of Lisbon, for
Italy that the news of the proclamation of
the Republic had been disseminated through
out Spain, and that order still prevailed in the
capital and the provinces; and, finally, that
Sefior Martos-a stanch republican and an
able mau-had, by 222 votes, been elected
President of the Spanish National Assembly,
and that France will recognize the neigh
boring Republic as soon as President Theirs
has been officially informed of its establish
ment.
So far, then, the new Republic of Spain
sails before the wind But it comes in the
shape of sudden surprise to the whole coun-
try, and some days may yet elapse before the
various belligerent parties and factions con-
cerned will comprehend the tremendous revo-
luton in their government so quietly and
completely accomplished in single night.
Dangers, however, menace the new Republic
on every side. There are the dangers Of di-
visions and revolts in the army, the dangers
of the intrigues of the Alfonsistas and Of the
Carlists and of the Church party, and there
are the dangers of the Communists and Of dis
sensions among the republicans-all Of which
suggest pronunciamientos, uprisings, war Of
factions and reign Of anarchy as probably the
nextscenesin this strange, eventful drama. Very
few have been the years of internal peace in
Spain since 1900, and very short have been the
intervals of rest from her fighting revolution
ary factions. For the last fifty years the cata-
logue of her insurrectionary disturbances in
dicates condition of never ending and still
beginning anarchy, excelled only by that Of
her hopeful daughter, Mexico. It is fact
we'll worthy Of consideration, however, that
Spain, since the expulsion of Isabella, in
1868, and through all that perplexing and
uncertain interregnum of two years in which
Prim, hat in hand, was begging around
Europe for king and through the two years
reign Of Amadeus, has really enjoyed more
generally the blessings of internal peace and
law and order than for any other continuous
period Of four years of the present century.
But there is no evidence in all this that the
conflicting factions of Spain have suspended
their wars upon each other for the sake of
peace. On the other hand in the assassina-
ton of Prm, in the attempted assassination
OF Amadeus and his wife, and in those frequent
ministerial changes forced upon the King,
until wearied with the endless chain of hostile
intrigues against him, he threw up his crown
and abandoned his intractable adopted people
in disgust, we find abundant evidence of an
active revolutionary spirit, which has only been
held in general submission by the presence of
a loyal and efficient army. Now, if there are
divisions in the army we may expect revolts
and pronunciamientos and a consequent demon
alization of the army. Now, it is to be feared
that the Church party and the Alfonsistas
and the Carlists and oil the other elements in
favor Of the monarchy against the Republic
may combine as in common cause for the
suppression of the Republic as the first and
paramount duty devolving upon them ALL
The chiefs of the new Republic, in the face
of these perils, will require all the qualities Of
courage, fortitude, forbearance and caution to
maintain their new form of government But
the overwhelming public sentiment of this day
of the civilized world is with them and their
cause of popular institutions. France is with
them and Italy is with them, and over these
barriers in the existing European situation
there is no danger Of European Intervention
for the suppression of the Republic in Spain.
The dangers lie among the fighting factions,
Church and State, Of the Spanish people; and
while we believe that the monarchy is down,
never to rise again, and that the Republic will
survive and be perpetuated, it will be among
the greatest of miracles if the transition from
'the divine rights Of kings to 'the divine
rights Of the sovereign people" shall be con-
summated without one of the bloodiest civil
wars in all the bloody history of Spain.
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