Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-24
SPAIN.
View OF the Situation BY the New York
Spanish Organ.
The Recent AbdlcatIoH Of the Grown
By Amsdeus-The Causes and
Probable Effects.

By Amadeus-The Causes and
Probable Effects.
LONDON, February 23.-In the CON-
plicatiOns that induced Amadeus to ab-
dictate it is possible that the declaration
OF the Spanish Republic was never for q
moment contemplated. It was a COM
piete surprises veritable coup 6'etdt.
Amadeus would not have abdicated
had he deemed this consequence of his
act in any degree probable inasmuch as
the two Latin nations, France and
Spain, having each Republican gov
eminent, would have enormous influ-
ence on the third Latin nation, thus di-
rectly endangering his fathers throne.
Amadeus abdicated in the expectation
that he would be recalled by the army,
whose side he has taken against
the ministry; for this he has remained
in Portugal. The artillery officers are
all MOnarchists, all members Of old fam
ilies. BE believed that as he cast away
the throne rather than act with the
Ministry, who determined to humiliate
the army, they would pronounce in his
favor, aud he would return at their
head, his hands being then free from
constitutional trammels; but he was
completely checkmated by the turn of
events. Apparently il was some
suspicion of this that induced many
members Of the COrtes not Republicans
70 vote with the Republican party, in
order to Overresch the royal maneuvre.
Amadeus, however, seems not to have
relinquished his hope for recall. The
Spanish Republic Is a source Of uneasi-
ness at Berlin. The Emperor now
regrets his false step in France, and is
sorry he did not re-establish Napoleon,
or come ether monarch, and ac-
cept the payment of slight
take their course. He regards the
Spanish Republic as the consequence of
the French Republic, and il Is uncertain
where this desire for republics will stop.
Translated for the New York Evening Post
from II CroniSts, The Spanish organ in New
York;
When, in 1865, Topete began the
naval and military insurrection in Spain,
headed, as it furthermore was, by the
Duke Of La Tore, and upsetting the
throne OF Isabella, the intermistic
powers at work first OF ali instituted a
provisional government, and subse-
quenuy appealed to the constituted
popular voice, in order TO lend a legal
anu AAHAlllE AOIlll 70 AAlE lEhAllthOIk
OF Spain's constitution.
Spain was torn by cOntending fac
tiOns. each party more or less powerful;
hence the above course Of proceeding
was prudent and logical, inasmuch as il
yielded the revolutionary right, then
triumphant, to popular decision.
The son Of Victor Emmanuel had 20
contend against anarchy because OF his
foreign extraction, and not on account
Of any failing in the fulfllment Of his
duties. Discovering, at length, that as
a foreigner he was unwelcOme, he pre-
ferred 10 withdraw.
His abdication was rendered to the
COrtes and not to the constituents be-
hind them. They were ordinary Cortes,
cOnvOked by the king, and they in real
ity represented, in an overwhelming
manner, the monarchical spirit Of the
electors, their constituents. Do not let
US lose sight Of this fact.
Hence, all the COrtes were delegated
10 do would have been to form a pro-
visiOnal government Of the same Kind
which took the place OF Queen Isabella,
and then appeal to the universal suf-
fIage Of the nation.
But the ordinary Cortes undertook to
adopt a different mode Of proceedings;
aud disregarding, as they did, the
aspirations OF the remaining great ns-
tiOnal parties, 81 well as the well-known
opinion Of their own electors and the
blOOdshed which their step may be pro-
ductiVe OF, they Instantly proclaimed
the Spanish republic, thus choosing the
form Of government in reality repre-
Eented in their own body by a small
minority, and thus acting in the most
unexpected and absurd manner imAgin-
able.
The thing, a. 1t stands, and in the
light Of the last four yeara' experience,
Is nothing but bold imposition, with
nothing legal 10 excuse or sanction 1t.
Fancy then, the responsibility which
the COrtes have willingly assumed, il,
in the end, the Spanish nation, or the
various parties which subdlvide il,
should not willingly sanction the step
thus taken.
The COrtes ought 10 have reflected
that, in view Of recent experience, the
people OF Spain might prefer 10 return
% one or the regimes anterior to that Of
Amadeus rather than launch into
doubtful experiments still more danger
Gus. Not every nation has its digestive
organs constituted powerfully enough to
overcome the dwelling tendency Of
equality.
If the ordinary Cortes felt 80 very
SIRE that the people would rise 10 their
republican level, and abandon the time
worn politics Of old, they had all greater
reason for leaving 10 the public vote the
proclamation Of the Republic, and thus
legalize this form Of government n,
on the other hand, they suspected that
the contrary would be the case, why did
they take the nation by surprise, and
fOisting upon il a form contrary to the
other parties and altogether new in
Spain, thus deliberately place them
selves above the rest?
The right Of nation i not vested In
the body which proclaims it, but in the
public vote which controls il, which ap-
proves and sanctions il.
l. not this policy Of deliberately over.
riding the popular voice an extraordin-
airy one on the part of factions which
have been laying 90 much stress all
along upon national sovereignty?
Ii is nothing but q disloyal step and a
bold imposition, and the only basis
which il can stand on will be the mate
rial strength that may prop it up. 1t is
a government dc TdctO, which holds
good only 30 far as its material power
will reach. suppose, then, thRt each
party undertakes 10 set up its own gov
eminent de Bacto in some province OF
other in Spain, whom shall our transat-
lantic provinces obey?
This is the point we wanted to arrive
at Let the colonies remain absolutely
neutral, with the banner Of Spain float
ing over them; let the constituted su-
thOrities quietly wait and be resolved 10
obey the government which may in the
end emerge from this national crisis.
= - IL.
same prove Il mOnarchieal or republi-
can one, provided it be Spain and the
Spaniards, and thus acceptable to them.
Latest advioes from Rio de Janiero
report that the people are dying with
yellow fever at the rate Of one hundred
day. Very few Americans are taken
with the disease, il being confined
mostly t0 Portuguese aza ltaksDa.