New-York tribune., 1873-02-01
THE END OF SLAVERY.
THE POWER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
DEMOCRACY.

SPEECH OF EMILIO CASTELAR, IN THE CHAMBER
OF DEPUTIES, DEC. 81, 1872, on THE IMME-
DIATE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE ISLAND
OF PORTO RICO-FROM THE VERBATIM RE-
PORT IN THE OFFICIAL DIARY OF THE SEES
sI0NS OF THE C0RTES.
MEssRs. DEPUTIES: The Republican minor
iy voted favor of taking under consideration the
proposition for vote Of thanks TO the President Of the
Council for his utterances respecting colonial reforms
Ehe Republican minority will vote as man for the
approval OF this proposition. In voting thus the Repub
hoan minority does not give its vote TO monarchical
party its vote is inspired by its conscience and It's
prinpes to adhere to the stesdtast pole
Of ts ancient doctrines Aud If it chances that the Gov
and the majority with US In such an issue,
eyen in those days OF sorrow, now passing into OBJ
Gvion. IN which combated a traditional monarchy,
AD uolerant church, and which drove the peo-
6 fr, the balot-box-even in those days we did not
pause TO rSoS the number Of foes so neither do
we now count the humD2r of our friends when II is
sought to embody here and give TO America the princi
PIES OF liberty and justice.
The Republican minority has heard cry to which 1t
can never be deaf the cry FOR reforms already prom
se1-already given, 1t were to longoppressed peo'
bcs victims OF military despotism and bureaucracy,
who more than all Others have need to breathe the air
Of modern life peoples who csh OF our flesh, blood
Of blood, e9ne Of bur bone, Ofshoots OF our own
SOUL and an integral part of the national domain, the
OF country having right to our own rights
,Bnd who, II when emsncipated they proved migrate
fu and turned against the nation that recognizes ana
proclams their rights against the Parliament that gives
them and has also power to take them away would
merit the wrath Of our justice the condemnation OF
The civilized world and the eternal curse OF history
sSherefrom lies no appeal. Boisegous aud prolonged
applause
Another question, Deputies, OF the utmost import
ance still remains. As have said. advocated. in its
good time the immediate abolition Of Slavery, and we
advocated IT, not order that might resound
through the world not academical theme, serving
as a framework for the display Of mock sensbiity or
whereon TO hang the bauoes Of our rhetoric; mol We
advocated exigency Of universal progress, and
as q duty toward country from which we could not
shrink hard indeed to confess that beneath these
skies flooded by the radiance of liberty and darkened
too at times by its tempests-beneath the shadow OF
your Constitution whose first articles ampy the rights
guaranteed by descendants Of the Purtans to the
there still subsist thousands of unhappy creatures
things rather than men. instruments OF the work ana
warmth OF human nature and IN their consciousness the
igpominy the brute creation; who bear on their fore
heads the helots brand on thcir D3cks Ihe pIiah AN
and their feet the fetters OF the slave; race
itssf II IS crime which should he away with to-
dy rather than tomorrow; for we should pc unworthy
and 90 stand forth before history the defenders Of
All ,rty We should suppose tnat the siiet inhiment
would rebound to the injury Of our country iRepeaed
applause!
Ali Deputies the Republican minority seeks and
desires this, absolutely happen wha will and come what
miy justice. Aud, moreover it seeks and desires
this because like al acts of justice 1t ia of the highest
political expodiency. However radical we may be. how
ever ratonastio We may appear however independent
may be our desire 20 hold our own ideas OF every
that of the first magnitude In history desoends as
legacy TO all time and is inher in all the ages TO
To italy belongs the psthetc education of the human
race FOR Italy Is the mother OF the Renassanee
To- Germany is the mother of the Reformation 10 the
United states belongs the poiticalI education Of the
an race they honOred sires of republican
federation to France belongs the revolutionary inat-
e in occidental Europe for France Is the mother OF tne
revolution % England belongs the prluciple OF consti,
s the usrious land of parliamentary rights ana We
spaniards, have been and ever shal be- the med,
atOrs between the Old and New World between tue old
Rnd continent, for our heroes our sailors, our
navg1tOr created rather than discovered between the
holn The very commencement OF the modern epoch and
he birth Of the genius of civilization, living monu-
ment OF freedom form with It's splendid horizons
snd the beauties OF its bounteous soil worthy sanctuary
fOr the spirit of modern times lAppauseI
II matters ite very little, Deputies that the greater
part Of the political and material ties that linked us
with America have been severed. Inc spanish race,
from the simple fact OF being Spanish IL essentially
American. and the Americans, from the mere fact OF
whom modern democracy mourns-seward said.
the conclusion of the American war &" spain VIII for
ever be an American power" And LncCn's Prime
Minister had Just title to represent IN history t5e
sncient bands which united us VIII america nave Deen
broken For Is the State the COuntryt is the Govern
ception OF country. Country the origin from which
" descend. the TO which belong, the cradle
wherein rocked the freside that throws over
our lives the golden haze Of its poesy the temple which
inspired with our earliest hopes and wherein our Ts
PRAYERS arose ike clouds OF incense and language, that
Embodiment Of the ideal that speech OF the sOul[al
efsrnaly spanish in America. And if they reyile US,
they rcye their selves If they curse u.s. they curse
their selves; If they renegade to Us, they must
deny in tongue, the most beautiful the most
BonOrous and the richest spoken by mankind in the
modern world appause and which is the golden ring,
Bnameed by the genius Of so many minds with which
fhe spirit OF Spain welded the spirit OF America,
and the spirit Of America to the spirit OF Spain 10 al
eternity the Of past and future history lap
pauseI
The SPIRIT OF AMERICA THE SPIRIT OF THE FUTURE.
Ircgret Deputies. deplore that great part Of the
nustriou Conservative party OF Spain is now absent
rrom this place. for an enemy to all acts OF vo-
fence as abuudantly showed when the Conservative
porty occupied the Government bench and tho seat
bay TO them, In any American question:, hSNer C
put ySGF a b Did 9S Tou nS observe how afa
entary orator Of such translucent mental power such
foTe6ted inteligence and such ncisIye eloquence
NJ Fstebsn CoIantes~and be not offended with me
bow Inferior 10 himself he appeared last night Did you
pot remark Mr. Bugala whose gigantic l1teleot is IN
bued with al modern ideas how he hardly seems u 10
grasp and how he scarcely explains the ISSUES % N @ ae err
eai IL may be, although dou0t even t1 naa d .n S
Conservative school may prove adequate 70 the needs Oh
the aged mOnarches Of Europe, but the domestic pocy
and the domestic school are alone capaDe ol i9iy
pretending the young demOcraces OF America DO not DC
b@ye fallen into the same error The English Wings and
Foes when the accursed OF God and man Droke Out
miracle Of modern history about 70 be destrOyedj
they believed that the American Confederation was
about pass away, and they declared 1t even IN the
House OF Commons; for which they had TO pay
Vith tie salntary and sublime humiliation OF Geneva
man os eminent you, Of our most nlustriOus
lursts Mexico the Embassador OF the Spanish
patton; arrived, delivered his credentials to all those
represented the reacOn and on his return entered
the Senate said. In the year 1882 that within nVe
Of constitutional m0nafcbies would srech
from the Potomac 70 Patagonia. No; pardon me the
seeming presumption when say that none but Repu6li
cans can grasp American questions We said that
Buchanan preparing the way for the lusurection OF
Inc south and he prepared H. When Lincoln passed,
almost a fugitve to the Capitol st Washington, where
DarfyrdODi and Immortality awaited him. we said ne
Al Ifad IN nr.uta IN