New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-15
CdRLIST FAITH And PRACTICE.


The Carlist army, which is fighting ostens
bly, for the cause of religion in faithless
world is not setting an edifying example to
the rest of mankind. If the Pope were as
much interested in the success OF their arms
as they would like to have the faithful be-
lieve His Holiness would do well to remind
Don Carlos that this is the Nineteenth Cen
tury, and not the Thirteenth, and that no
amount of zeal is sufficient in the eyes of the
modern world to excuse brutality and saw
agery. We all admit that profanity is
most Objectionable habit, but it may be
doubted whether Gen. Lizarraga took the
most evangelical means of supprcssing 1t when
he ordained that any swearing, even by the
names of saints in good standing, should be
punished, the first Offense by gagglng and the
second by boring the tongue with hot IRON.
1t would be hard even for Uncle Toby" to
stand by and see this ceremony performed
without being strongly tempted to swear Oaths
at Lizarraga which would greatly embarrass
the accusing angel. The proclamations of the
Carlists are fuller of religion than any which
have appeared since the time of Philip H.,
but there is perplexing discordance between
their words and their works.
A few days before his death, when Marshal
CoDcha was at Lerin delegation of the towns
people represented to him that the Carists
had shot an old man because his son had
Joined the Republican army. The Marshal did
himself great credit by refusing to listen to
their demand for retaliation. His last general
order was in favor of mercy and humanity to
prisoners. On the other hand, Gen. Dorregaray,
who commands the Carlist forces at Estella,
has no hesitation in coming out frankly and
ayowing not only the fact that he has shot a
number of Republican prisoners, but his IN
tention to continue so to do and his convic-
ton that it is morally right and highly expe-
dent to give no quarter He recalls the
result of the Eliot Convention in the earlier
Carlst war, by which the barbarites of both
sides were restrained, and says that this ar
rangement was unfavorable to the royalists
and favorable to their enemies. Recent dis
patches indicate that the Carlists have gone
beyond all former Outrages in reckless ferOcity,
in the murder of German the correspondent
of Vienna journal While they cOnfne
Themselves to the slaughter of their own
people, the outside world will be slow to take
notice of it, but the killing of foreigners is
productive Of scandal.
1t is curious to see in what an unchanging
and hopeless circle of blood and terror this
Carlist history revolyes In 1885 another Don
Carlos gathered his clans together and made
his headquarters at this same city of Estella.
There also MarOto judged and condemned
through his own savage suspicious five of his
brethren in arms, officers who had rsked their
lives with him on the same fieh, iunder the
same white banner with its blazon of "God,
king, and CouDtry.n 1t seems like an echo
of these days to read in late English paper,
not friendly to the National Government of
Spain, 1.-TWO discharges of musketry were
"heard last night in the Carlist camp. This
."morning we learn that they have shot two
" of their chefs.n Yet il is probable that in
this army of instruction there is q more rlgid
observance of religious duties than in any army
of modern times and that the spiritual apl-
thority of the Pope is 30 powerful that he
might by direct appeal to Don Carlos, pre-
vent very much Of the savage barbaIity which
daily disgraces their cause.
But it is hardly to be expected that he
should intervene in the matter Although Don
Carlos pretends to be fighting his battle, the
Pope has never recognized his enterprise for
mally as one in the interest of the Church,
and would naturally be slow to take any steps
which would compromise himself with it, 1t
is likely that the hope is still entertained at
the Vatican that the son of Isabel III, may
yet come to the thrQpe. or even that thy DE-