The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-09
SPAIN.
o''e9e'ays Observation-Disclosures Committed bu
the ReDublio1bs


the Republicans.
uai Dorregaray has published O long
msntesIo' addressed to all civilized nations I'M
wn oniri se.s forth themotves that, in his
prisoners at the battle of EsteIia" He|
justl1es his conduct on the uroTnS nc 81
eruelt.es committed by the Republican forces
| make war lii savages and not like CbristsanSso
| and have thereby placed themselves ontsids1
| the pale of civilized nations, and Compelled
| their opponents to give the war q character oil
| severe justice. The following are some of the
| acts which he adduced. as specimens of theI
atrocities of the Republicans: In 1869, Dom
Juan Prim ordered his generals to shoot on|
| the spot all INA efactors" s. ., Carlists taken
with arms in their hands. This order was
carried out to the letter under the then Gov
cuted it were rewarded with immediate pro-
motion. Pretended Carlst officers in the
Basque provinces invited men to enlist UNDER
the banner of the King, and, on their coming
forward, gave them up to be treacherously1
massacred by their enemies. The same thing
was done at Cordova, where several Carlisd
officers were assassina ted in like mannerl
Simil lar massacres took place in 1872 in the
province of Toledo, of Burgos, and of Soria |
1nnumerable murders of Catholic priests, and|
indescribable ordinations of churches haye|
been perpetrated by the Revolutionary com
manders. The Carlsts, on the other hand
have always carried on the war with forbear.|
ance and with humanity, and with chival-
honor almost approaching to simplicity.
One of the Carlist generals who had ordered a
few men to be executed in reprisal was imme-|
diately dismissed by the King from His
Majesty's service. The Carlists have always,
General Dorregaray asserts, treated their
wounded prisoners with the same humanity
and attention their own men. At the|
present moment they have 400 of the enemys|
wounded in their own hospitals. The Repub-
loaus, their side, have either shot their
prisoners in cold blood, OF have deported them
to the Island of Cuba, where they met with q
certain and horrible death. The Government
of Madrid, and the successive commanders oil
its armies, have all entered into conventional
with the Carlsts: but have never kept any of
their engagements. This has compelled the
Carlists to destroy the railways and electric
telegraphs because they were being used by
the enemy against themselves, contrary to his
word of honor not to SO employ them. The
Republ armies have carried fire and sword
through the provinces that did not sympathize
with the Revolution, even where the popula-
tiops had committed no overt act of hostility.
After the memorable battle of Vela Bueta, the
army of Iona and Morionez reduced the town
Of Oyarzun to a heap of ashes, and more than
fifty farms in the environs of Tolosa shared the
the women were " officially" and systemati-
cally given up TO the brutality of the soldiery.
At Bilbao. and at Villa Real de Alva, pillage
and incendiarism practiced in obedience
to an order of the day. When the late General
Concha was about to attack Estella he assem-
bled the clergy and municipal authorities of
Lodosa, and told them he was about to wage q
war of determination against Navarro, and
that he meant to wipe out, not only the Kings
army, but all the Inhabitants of the districts
which it had occupied. The conduct of his
troops was in conformity with this savage
declaration. They burnt dwelling houses,
destroyed towns and villages, murdered
prisoners in cold blood, tossing the wounded
into the flames of their burning habita-
tions. These things occurred at Villatuerta,
at Zurncain, at Zabal, and at Abarzuza.
General Dorregaray intmates that the patience
of the Carlists is now exhausted by the num-
berless outrages of the revolutionists. "To-
day." he says, I" we have only shot the tenth
part of the criminals, henceforward they will
all be served alike henceforward we shall
make war without quarter against that army
of wild beasts for there ought to be no quar-
ter for fre-raise1s, for murderers, and for rob-
bers. We have hitherto refrained from making
reprisals, although we had every justification
for making them. We do not shoot the soldiers
OF the Repu blican army soldiers ; we shoot
them as thieves and murderers we shoot
them as the violators of our women and as the
dishonorers OF cur country We shall be ready
to return to our former line of conduct pro-
vlded that heDceforward enemy will
change his own He it ~, and not we who
must he held responsib BILE for all the blood that
may be shed off the field of battle. l shall
keep my word with energy and do my duty
with severity for l shall be acting according
to my conscience a Christian and a gentle
man" In his report to Don Carlos of the op
erations of the Royal army during the late
battle, General Dorregaray has repeated in
substance the foregoing accusations of brutal
Wy and wanton destruction of the property of
non-com batants on the part of the troop under
the orders of the late Marshal Concha.