The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-13
sPANIARDS.


tina, whose partisans we're called Chris
tinos, Don, Csrlos, the kings brother,
and the direct male heir, resisted the
change.
The constitutional government es-
tablished by the ChrIstinos, bringing
all under one general law, does away
with the ancient ftterOS, or privileges of
the provinces.
This was especially resented by the
Blscay provinces, whose inhabitants had
been left to enjoy great freedom among,
and most probably on account of their
mountains.
They therefore presented the singular
spectacle of q free people, ready at any
| time to take mp arms for absolute kings,
because this absolutism had never both
cred them.
The career of my informant was a
good illustration Of the recent history
of Spain
He had begun life as an Andalusian
noble, and naturally espoused the cause
of Don Carlos. Becoming one of ''the
kings" staff officers, his position was
excellent for observing everything, and
his account of 8 Carlist camp at that
time was exceedingly interesting.
The old men and women with the
| smaller boys and girls, remained at
| home to work the farms, and procure
provisions for them all. The larger
| boys conveyed supplies to the camp,
/ which contained all the able-bodied
| men.
The young women were there also to
cook and keep things tidy until fight
came, when they also brought in the
wounded from the battle field, and
tended them until they recovered, or
until they passed away.
The usual loose license of camp had
no exis ence there. Every young wom-
an was lust as safe from harm or in
suit among her relatives and fri' nds in
| camp as she would have bet n in her own
home.
One day as my informant, with the
rest of the staff, was riding with &c the
king" along a narrow road among the
mountains, they met an old woman,
bowed down with age and grief, walk
ing in front of a rough hand barrow,
borne by four young women, on which
lay a fne-loOking young man who
seemed badly wounded.
The clatter of the horses hoofs
reused the aged mourner, who raised
her head as the horsemen reined aside
to make room in the narrow road.
"The king" raising his hat, said
'' Mother, is this your son %
The old woman TUNED toward him
her fine, though wrinkled face, and,
seeing who it was, saluted him and
answered
Yes, your majesty"
He seems badly wounded.
Yes he is dying, and he is the
second son that 1 have thus lost, my
emily consolation being that 1 have one
more still left for the service of your
majesty"
Bending down her head again, she
moved on as before with her sad train,
while all the horsemen remained uncov-
cred Till they passed.
OF course. with such devotion as this,
Don Carlos had them and theirs always
at his command. When he chose to /
raise his standard, he never backed for |
hardy soldiers. Their mountains Of |
fered a secure base for operations, in
suring them a safe retreat, while their |
extended seaboard put them in commu- |
nication with all the world, and gave |
them an amount of supplies limited |
only by their power to purchase.
NY informant, while In command |
of a body of troops, was obliged, in |
order to avoid capture, to cross the |
Portuguese frontier. He and his men |
were disarmed and imprisoned.
For two years he tried in vain to free |
his men. Then, feeling he had done |
his whole duty toward them, he secured
his own escape and went to England.
Thence he gained the continent, and
finally settled in Paris.
u.-CUCHLLos.
The national weapon of the Span
iards is the knife, and certainly they
know how to use it. Talking one day
with a young man VINO seemed likely to
know, asked him what there was pc
culiar in tho management of the knife.
Why" said he. with a smile,
could kill you, and you couldn't kill
me-"
90 Well" said I, "please point out
the difference between us. What would
you do first ?"
"Why, I'd make you wink, and stab
you while You winked."
How would you make me wink p
Why, so" said he, throwing up his
left hand near nay eyes.
We'll, could do the same"
"Try it." said he.
tried, and found it impossible to
make him wink, though I passed my
hand up aud down several times so as
almost to touch his eyelashes.
His bright, black eyes looked out at
me unhinchingly all the while. 1t was
clear that his eyes were educated, and /
that mine were not.
I then asked if there was any possibil-
ity of an unarmed mans defending /
himself againt one armed with knife. /
"Oh, yes," said he. " I'll show you,"
and in an instant whipping on his coat,
he held the end of one sleeve firmly IN |
his left hand, wrapping the rest of his |
coat rapidly around his forearm, and, |
bringing the end of the other sleeve |
also into his hand, where it was firmly /
held, binding together the whole mass /
which formed a sufficient defense |
against the thrust of any ordinary |
knife.
1 then recoliected that one of the |
marks of the men of Puerta del Sol, at |
Madrid-which answers to our BOwery |
was slashed cloak, evidently not so |
honorable in its origin as slashed |
doublet," of the olden time.
The use of the knife appears to be so |
ingrained into Spanish history and hab- |
it's that one mode of expressing the |
idea of being " lord of a manor" was |
tener horca Gu chillo"-tO hold |
gallows and the knife"
m.-sPANIsH PRIDE
National pride Is very general, but |
that of the Spaniards seems to tower |
eve the average. The sea which !
nearly surrounds Spain, ssand the rug |
course to a great degree between the
provinces, have given them almost in |
sular prejudices, and afford another
illustration of the truth thai those who
mix least with others have the highest
ideas of their own importance.
A Spanish gentleman once, ID conver- |
sation, claimed, what had beeL so often
claimed for other languages, that it
could express more in small compass
than any other. I asked him TO quote
the most striking illustration he could
recollect.
81 Why" said he, when a man is pre-
pared 70 meet any consequence, and,
/ stretching out his arm, Gays, 'Ojala, no
other language can express that idea
SO condensedly."
I told him he was mistaken, for We
could say a Be it 50, and thus express
| the same idea in the same number of
syllables-
The Duke Of Wellington used TO say,
''To boast of Spain's strength is the
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