Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-07

young woman who, he alleges, was caught conveying dispatches from the officer commanding the troops, was known to be spy, and who had received a sum of money to betray him to his enemy, as well as the aicalde of B village after the combat of Ava. This deed produced such a sensation that Santa Cruz addressed the following letter to the Carlist paper that published well-deserved censure on his conduct:
 s'Marcb 13, 1873.
 'In late number of your journal I read letter from Guipuzcoan corres- pondent which you seem to approve, since you stigmatiZe my mode of acting during this rude campaign, opened by me in the month of December last. You say that the Carlists of Guipuzcoa are painfully affected by certain barbarous acts com mitted by one of the chiefs of the party in thls province; alluding, no doubt, to the execution of q woman of the high lands. That chief Is the person who writes these lines; and he has right to ask, who are the men of the Carlist party ? who is the author of the letter? who is the writer who composes diatribes by hls fireside at the moment when, pursued by the enemy's columns through the snow am hunted to the death? Does your corespon- dent imagine that, from caprice of inde- scrlbable barbarity, 1t is pleasure to me to take the life of one of Gods creatures '? Do you know why ordered the woman and other guilty persons to be executed? Is 1t then so precious, the life of a wretch who, availing herself of her title of Car list, betrays the volunteers of God and of the king, and carries dispatches from the enemy sewn up in her dress? Are these Carlists aware how much suffering and peril we endure for the final triumph of our cause? If they know nothing about 1t, let them hold their tongues, and not SOW division amongst us; let them hold their tongues, and not excite the volun- teers against the chiefs who hourly expose thelr lives for the success of the cause and the defeat of the Revolutions; let them keep silent, and leave dishonest man9uvres to those who have not the courage to put their names to what they write. It Is not true that our friends in thls province blame me. Those friends desire to finish the anarchists, with the deputies who offer large rewards for our heads, with our despots and our tyrants; and they ought to know that if I acted as 1 dld, 1t was because 1 could not do oth- erewise. All my young volunteers ap- prove me- Those brave young men are disposed to shed the last drop of their blood by my side; on one condition, how ever-that I relieve them from the spies who plot our ruin; the spies of the enemy, of whom some are spies through fear and others for money: 1t is the Basques who pay for both
 ''It is said that the Carlist party. who have nobly carried on the war up to the present day, despite thousand calum- nies, have 8 right to require that the cause shall not be dishonored. You know how in May last certain volunteers gave up thousands of muskets-and this was one of tEe most shameful pages of Carl ism. We must have no second Amoroyi- eta. l am justified by the laws of war in punlshlng spies, and still more in punish ing those who push their treason so far as to surrender their flag. My volunteers are convinced that we must act with severity, and eradicate the evil; but the punish .ment is only inflicted for offenses of the most heinous character.
 MANUAL SANTA CRUZ"
 Butfon says, ''le style c'est L'homme," and the preceding justification shows as we'll as anything else the character of the
 
 ready to endure all that he infiicts on oth- CTS. Those chiefs of partisans are cer- talnly guilty of acts of ferocity, and it should be horne in mind that reckless dis regard of life Is not confined to one party exclusively. Both sides have much to answer for in this respect. The summary executions by drumhead court-martial, or by no court-martial at all, and simply on identification of those who had talk en mp arms for Don Carlos in the seven years war, were commenced by military authorities commanding in the name of Isabella H., then child of four years old, under the regency of her mother Queen Christina. These executions were indeed fearfully avenged by Zumalacarre- guy, whose natural severity kept in sub mlsslon the troops and the inhabitants of the reVoited districts; and increased to such extent that the English Government had to Interfere, and imposed on both parties convention by which prisoners delonglng to regular troops on both sides were, Ill the Basque provinces, allowed quarter. It must be said, however, that when tho Carlist commander proposed to extend the benefits of the convention to the districts south of the Ebro, and, in fact, wherever Carlists bands were in arms, General Cordova 0uis), then at the head of the army of the north, refused to allow 1t to have effect outside the limits of the Basque provinces and Navarro. A Christine General commanding district ln Catalonia shot the aged mother of Cab rera, and he, too, terribly retaliated for a crime comitted precisely on the same ground as those alleged by Santa Cruz and conveying despatches to and from the enemy.
 To those who may feel surprised that, after many years submission to the will of a constitutional sovereign, Basques and Navarrese should still be found to con- bat for the grandson of the Prince whose cause had been virtually lost even before the great defection of Bergara, we may observe that tine inhabitants of a country like SpaIn, intersected by chains and groups of mountains, are the last to ac- cept important changes in government, allegiance, or religion. Fhe Highlanders of Spain have adhered to the cause of Don Carlos. as the Highlanders of Scot land adhered to that of Charles Stu art, long after their repudiation by the major lty of the nation, and as the primitive Vendeans behind their woods and marshes chung to the elder branch of the Bourbons. The Basques are a brave hardy, obstinate race, as proved in an- clent and modern times by their resistance to the Roman invaders, to the Moors, and to the French; and in protracted contestf even when there remains slight chance os success, they have no superiors, perhap, no equals. The constant practice of admirably fits them for guer- lila warfare; they come to the fight al- ready veterans; and in power of endur- ance and activity, they are not sur passed by any others of their class in Europe. ...
 BAILEYcRAMs.