The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-23

| intelligent country in the nineteenth century,
You would suppose as do and every sensible
man, that religious persecution is something
that has not been contemplated by Don Carlos
or any of his ministers. 1t has ever been the
people believe, by fair and foul MEANS that
| such is the Government of Don Carlos. There
| Is an article translated from the Official Gazette
| of Madrid, which states that it comes from the
| hands of one of the Kings generals, Lizarrsga,
| Commander General of Navarro and the Basune
Provinces. 1t "As it is important to the
interests of our Lord the King (whom may God
guard) that you should work with activity and
| energy, your Excellency will effect, as soon as
| possible, the sequestration of the rebel Chiefs
| and sacriligious Liberals included in the lists
| nores, and that of the accursed-- (malditos)
Free sons, which will be delivered TO you bv
tue Commission pro tenn of the illustrous
Senores." (Here fnllow the names). As of.
fences against tho Most High against our holy
religion. and against the humble servant of
the Lord, his Majesty our very beloved King
Carlos VII, ought to be punished the blood
| and the determination of the heretics and our
enemies will be recommendable in your SER
vices. Your Excellency will remain charged
as Chief Supreme as soon as you communicate
to me the execution of the preparatory acts SO
necessary for our object. AS to the liberty
introduced by those gentlemen, suppression of
newspapers, arbitrary imprisonment, illegal
seizure of property, and the unlawful general
teree of recruits for the army, such are the acts
of these patriots whom one of our Irish news
papers ikened unto the Spartans of Thermo-
pyle. Pm sure the spartans would be highly
They call themselves Republicans, those op-
ponents of Don Carlos. They are the same
party who put Isabella on the throne and
brought Amadeus from Italy and put him on
the throne and afterwards put him off. They
are the party who declared Unitarian Re-
public at one time and Federal at another,
and they are tho same party who tomorrow
would declare for the Communistic
A Voice-Tt is false.
Another Voice-The same party will put Don
Carlos in tomorrow.
Here a rotton egg, thrown by some one in
the gallery fell on the platform and broke near
where Major Leader was standing.
Major LEADER have withstood the bullets
of the Commune, and can stand the eggs of
my fellow-citizens. loud applause and cries
of Shame shame.") In order to understand
the state of Spain to-day, it will be necessary
to go back some forty-three years. when the
last legitimate monarch, Ferdinand VII, ruled
in Spain. He had been married three times,
but had no issue, and in 1929 he took unto
himself his fourth wife, Christina-not bad
supply for one manly whom he ubsequently
had two children, both females, aud therefore
excluded by the Salic law from the succession
to the throne. Both daughters married, and
the Grown then devolved on the nearest male
heir, who was no other than Ferdinands own
brother, Don Carlos. Queen Christina set to
work to try and GUST Don Carlos and get her
own daughter, Isabella, declared heir; so at
last she fonnd the old law which had been
voted by the Cortes so far back as 1889, which
declared the regular succession. Now this law
wanted three things to render it legal. In the
first place, Don Carlos had been born in 1873,
and they could not ALLEVIATE his rights in the
second place, the Cortes should have been es-
pecially elected to legislate on such an impor-
tant question as the changing of fundamental
law; and thirdly, it had not received the Royal
assent. This law was looked out by Christina
in 1880; and Ferdinand, who was already three
quarters foelish-and no wonder, poor man!
hadn't he had four wives-was persuaded to
sign sanction giving the old dusty act the
force of law. To show how much the old gen.
tleman knew of his own mind, he signed, two
years afterwards another proclamation abro-
eating this sanction, and his own decree of
1880. He signed, however, several other de-
crees and proclamations before it pleased God
to call him to Himself in 1888. The army had
been altogether favorable to Don Carlos, and
the officers recognizing in him their rightful
sovereign, and foreseeing the civil war which
must ensue had petitioned him previously to
take the reina of Government out of the hands
of the designing Cristina. Don Carlos refused
to act during his brothers lifetime, and then
all the officers known to be favorable to Don
Carlos were dismissed, and creatures of the
On Ferdinand's death the Royalists took up
arms against the revolutionists, and, increas-
ing in numbers day by day triumphed
would certainly have succeeded in placing the
rightful heir on the throne, and have avoided
all the subsequent bloodshed and anarchy had
1t not been Tor one Gnlng. ana thaG was the
interference of England. When towards the
end of last December, the standard of God,
country, and King was raised in Spain by for
ty determined men who could have forseen that
within ten mouths sixty Thousand armed vol
unteers would be present to fight the holy
cause Since that time what changes have
taken place in the Carlist position. All Car.
lists we're discouraged, and the Madrid Gov
ernment bad dismissed from its mind the bug
bear of Carlism. There was but ono man
whose energy had survived the many trials,
and that man was Don Carlos. He alone pro-
posed q rising. 1--WE have men," said his
advisers ''Volunteers will come" said he.
eve have no arms returned his councillors
"WeIl take them from our enemies" was the
undaunted reply and everything has shown
the correctness of his Judgment. The insur-
rectlon was commenced without men, money,
or arms, and today 10000 volunteers are we'll
armed, and sutllciency of artillery has been
taken from the enemy. On, against every OBJ
stacle, have advanced the Carlsts; persecu
ton and evil reports have been hurled harm
lessly against them, aud still their cry is ''For
ward"
To illustrate to what an extent had the lies
scattered broadcast by the Revolutionists per-
meated will relate personal incident. Six
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