The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-20
COLUMBIA, s. C.'
Tuesday Morning, May 20. 1873.
The Spanish. Elections.

0uucIe0t k06uEQ6 uAVG Ueou EeCelfeu
to show the sweeping triumph of Fede.
ralism in Spain. 80 Ministerial Fede-
ralists, 80 extreme Radicals, 8 Iuterna-
tionalists, 10 Independent Republicans
aud 80 Monarohists tell tale which
needs little or no comment. When the
course OF Spanish politics is remembered,
it is not difficult from present indications
to forecast The result. Federalism III
Spain means separation. local an tonomy
means national disinsegration, and the
triumph Of Federalism means recogni-
tion ot these principles. Madrid and
Baroelona, Seville and Malaga, vallado.
lid and San Sebastian. will not be slow
to put In practice principles speoulasively
admitted and theoretically avowed by 60
large nnsjority. The re.assembling OF
the constituent Cortes,. the Louisville
Courier Journal ;shrewdly suspects. will
be the signal Tor q war Of provinces and
departments, strife Of faction and
general breaking up OF existing relations,
OF which no human sagaoity can foretell
the result. Happily. the great powers
Of Europe have no dynastio interests re-
quiring interference. There can be no
suoh antagonism as that which deluged
Europe with blood in the war OF the
Spanish succession, invol ng on oppo-
site sides France and Bavaria, Austria
and England in Spanish quarrel, nor
such as led to French interference in
1928. The contest will be limited to
spaniards, and, must OF necessity be
altogether intra-P Pyrennean.l But it will
not on this account be any the less
bloody. Marlborough and Tallard, Eu-
gene Of Savoy, and the pnke Of Berwick
so far modified apd aoftened the natu-
rally fierce and rigid elements Of Spanish
character az to relieve the contest in
which they were engaged Of atrocities
which ever characterize quarrels purely
Spanish. But should chaos and anarchy
now follow the triumph OF the Federal
idea. there will :bs, po restraining inau.
eaoes such as kept the rival adherents OF
Charles and Philip within bounds.
CASTELAR, and !FIgaeras have. by their
own act. cut yaRkSitt ttthe only possible
ground upon which national integrity
Gould be maintaihed IAN army we'll in
hand. By denounoing military service.
as,iucompatible With the conditions of
freemep. land pssssink the discharge of
all held,toinypl9di iRs service, they have
made teaiAsahos %: led faction impoa-
sible. 1nt3sjt, zeal 10 xsaken the mo-
narohy ths&4a orgaJ3ea ifre.rievable
disaster to!thpmsplv yes: Their own hands
are paralyzed, tksipI own aims rendered
powerless:% They Aste :oontrived to
ALLEVIATE the artillery, the elite of the
service in.spain. and BY pleoing weapons
in che hands Of the cftizens; have only
increased their power for iaotious DISC
bedience. Unable to coeroe tho obedi-
enoe Of their own followers and to put
down the despiceble Catlist insnrrection
in the North. their plightis wretched in
deed. The fictitious victories manufac-
tured by official organs turn ont to be
disgraceiul defeats. Only the other day
the insurgents OF Dorregarray were an
initiated; but it turns ont that tho affair
OF Puente de Eranel, 10 far from ami
hilatipg the Carlists, inflicted heavy loss
upon the Republicans. Tie fact is, no
one in Spain believes either victories or
tlefeats. They are manufactured not to
influence Spanish, but English md Ame-
rican, opinion-in the former case to in
fuence the stock market, and in the
latter, American policy regarding Cuba.
But, while the Carlists, as matters now
stand, can never hope to recover the
crown for the 1egitimist iusurgent, thoy
can prevent the recognition of repub-
lie. whether Federalist or Unitarian, and
accelerate ths process of disintegrntion
which, humanity speaking, the late cleo
tions seem to assure.
THIRTY SEVENTH ANN1vERsARY.- Tho
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