The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-02-12
ARUINED RACE.

I
refuge on the Partisan boulevards,
government has followed govern.
ment in Spain like the figures OIL
the stage Of a puppet show-or
rather, like the gymnasts on the
spring-board of u circus. Each has
come down the running;plOnk with
aquick rushas ofconscious strength,
struck the springboard with a noisy
thud, CLEANED fora moment inmid-
air in all the glory Of fresh tights
and spanglcd clouts, circled to the
ground tothe applausCs softhe clown
and the crack Of the ring-master's
whip, and then limpcd off to make
way for his Successor.
The game opJned in October of
1861, with Serramo at the head OF
the Provisional Government and
and the regency, holding the arena,
while to the right and left, engOg-
ed in ground and lofty tmbling,
were Isabella with the Prince of the
Asturias, and Juan Of Bourban and
Braganza and Carlos of Bourbon
| and Este. The shadow of the lIO-
Ihenzollcm fell on the board for a
moment, andconvulsed Europewith
fthe bloodicst war Of modern years.
/ Amadeus followed in December of
1870, and 'Prim, the only. man who
could, sustained the new dynasty,
and restored order to the country,
fell by the bullet of an assassin
Two years ended the new mon
archy, and introduced the Republic
Iin Februaryo 1873, with Riyero at
itshead.
The Republic was the signal for
evenmoreraPid bling. RiYero,
Figuefas, Margilll, Salmefon, Caste,
lar President CASTELAR, Dictator,
and finally serrapolFgaiis haze f0l!
lowed each other with asfe
I'rapiditS MbilaeEeD ellie J
IiHturfaIs between their eetiiig
I'leaps,lfnv6 been filed minis
terial changes that rival the COM
bination as q cllild's Kaleidoscope
in number and Suddenness, And
alktAe.time the oouIltpyrslias been
growing from bad to, worse, the
Edebtroning up, the blood rolling
down, and the spirit ofaparchy, bad
at the start, has spread till there is
no law but that Of force, and no re-
dress but that of vengeance. The
Garlists in tile North, and the In
transigentes in the South are fight
ing the Government III the centre,
while between all are innumcrable
divisions ofstrife, from the indepen-
dent revolt Of a province to the pet
ty war of a guerilla chief.
| Nor is this the worst of the sad
tale. The same frightful condition
of affairs has prevailed wherever the
Spanish race finds footing In
Cuba, government has been even
less tranquil than in the mother
country. The bloody risings Of
1872 and 1890, the conspiracy Of
the SoIes" and the Matanzas revolt
in 1928, "thc Black Eagle" conspir-
acy in 1929, the rising of the ne
groes in 1885, the revolt of the
Eastern Department, under Lorenzo
in 1886, the terrible 0'Domell in
surrection in 1874; the Lopez rebel
lionin 1848-51, and tinallythc pre-
sent four years strife, are instances
that history has recorded in letters
Of blood. The narrative might ex-
tend into Mexico and the South
America States, did not their world
wide reputation for bloodshcd make
it a work of supcrerogation.
And this is thcrace with which
Philip II, dominated two-thirdS OF
the civilizedworld, the race that un-
der Ferdinand and Isabella opened
an unknown third6f the globe to
commerce mdChnstianity; that
mapped the mighty Father of Wa
tiers; that wrested Mexico from the
M,ontczumas-a race that, not SC
many centuries ago, led the civil
world in the arts Of peace and war,
in the breadth of its commerce, the
strength of it armies, the, ,smerit Of
its literature, the culture of its gen
tlemcn, and the grace and beauty
ofits women! Theivy-grown walls
of the Alhambra are not q sadder
ruin than the Spanish race.
One of our physicians asked an
old lady patient the other morning,
:r,l,o oyaor;onoa1 onv rnlinf dnrino a,