New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-08
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not fitting that believer in the divinity of Slavery
| should, in default of niggers" devote his young,
vigorous life 10 the Divine Right of Bourbons !
Education has much to do with convictions, but m
beginning To believe that temperament is equally
potent. Certainly. temperament has deal to do
with what are called morals.
| Where do you think the Blinker had gone to find
my trunk AT my bankers
" How do Won suppose good Mr. Banker could get
1t ont of the Custom-hOuse without key ~
But, madame, it sent to his care
Oh that man was incorrigible. No amount of
surgery could get idea into his bullet head
Come, We will 90 to the Custom-honse," SAID
and 20 We did finding my poor little trunk sole oc-
cupant Of a great room, looking as thin and unhappy
as though its interior emptiness had broken out on
the surface. The Custom-house officer seemed to
doubt the statement that there was nothing
in the trunk. even after offered to present him
with its contents; so opened it was, and when his
eyes encountered nothing but clothes-brush and
history of the Miracles at Lourdes he gazed upon
me with amazement Madame. this is a mystery.
American ladies' travel with many fine clothes
beduooup, beaaooup-and now l behold one who
travels with trunk and nothing IN it. This world
| is stranger
The fact isr answered. my trunk had the
cholera at Santander and lost flesh in consequence"
En- gu est-ce quec estf Je ne comprend pas
"C' est 6gal" and off l marched at the head of my
army of trunk borne on the shoulders OF porter
who hummed the COnspiratoIs Chorus IN La File
de Madame Angot. and remarked as he deposited
the light burden in my room, 1t would be good
trunk to carry in hotter weather. what wealth OF
perspiratiOn should | saveW
Now came the moment of eternal separation from
the Blinker 1t was trying ordeal. " Madame 1T
grieves me to part from you. For ten days you
| have been ever on my mind. have felt for you IN
your trials. have found You very amiable can
say from my heart that yOu are very agreeable"
bore up under this purely Blinkerian patronage
and smiled feebly.
Yes, Madame shall often think of you in that
great country to which you will soon set SAIL and 1t
will be great consolation if you give me your auto
graph-only few lines, saying that you have been
content with me- that in time of revolution |
brought you safely into France, that have lived
% years IN SPAIN
"Yes, yes that will do.' And ], like a coward,
instead of telling that dirty stupid, incompetent
man bow utterly unfit he was for the position OF
courier sat down and wrote thus:
The Blinker has been my courier for ten days l
suppose he is honest. He is said TO be respectable.
know he is stupid, and if any one desires to cult
vate the virtue of patience at considerable expense
opportunity than by securing the Bllnkers services
for hurried tour through Spain" The Blinker
was delighted with my complaisance, and in backing
himself out Of the roOm-for his manners improved
the moment he had a favor to ask-pronounced me
charming wonder what he thought when some
obliging friend translated my accommodation.
When the door closed upon his burly back l
heaved a sigh of relief, sat down. and took final
survey of Spain. had seen enough to know il were
an impertinence 10 predict the future. Anything
is possible. That there would be change OF Gov
eminent the Cortes met was matter
of course. Spain has not improved since Irving's
day. when the Cabinet averaged two and half
revolutions annually.
This consumption of ministers" writes the
author of The Alhambra, is appalling. To
carry on negotiation with such transient function
aries is like bargaining at the window of a railroad
before you can get reply to proposition the
other party is out of sight" felt convinced that
CASTELAR, was too much of an idealist to steer
wreck through stormy seas. He had eaten, I'M
doubtedly with the best intentions too many OF his
own words to command the confidence OF extreme
radicals or the respect Of desperate enemies. Under
the monarchy he had many times demanded the
suppression of standing armies and of the cOnscrip-
ton As Dictator he upheld both. As independ-
ent orator he had nveighed against the death pen
alty As Dictator he insisted upon its execution.
In 1870 Senior CASTELAR, was Federal Republican,
and on the 18th of May of that year delivered
famous speech wherein be said
"With the system of Capitalization. single day the
of February. lsis decides the destiny OF kings
single night the night OF Dee D. 1851 deer les the ny
Of states. In country so constituted liberty Is not
vvifying sunlight: 1t is fash OF lightning, which
strikes and vanishes Government Is not the pachc
4, ami ~ crushes short dis
lance from this hall to Ministry of the Interior and
from that Ministry To the Palace Oh the senate covers
the spinal marrow OF a nation
Three years later CASTELAR, opposed fede ration, and
made an enemy of the most sensible party in Spain.
because il is the only one founded on c03ls de
EspaHd. the most pluperfectly Spanish cosd being
provincial independence, and an Unborn hatred OF
Capitalization. Now as write in the early days OF
May, 1874 the news comes that he denounces the
federal type of republicanism. That be should have
abandoned federation is as mysterious as that he
should have dreamed of regulating brutal Ignorant
people without an army or the death-penalty. 10
look at Spain for one moment from ideal point of
view is sheer madness in traveller. What shall il be
called in statesman CASTELAR, is too pure man not
TO be right in the end. One thing is certain. How
ever distant peace may be 10 Spain, 1t will never
dawn until the era of decentralization sets IN. The
Intransigenti know what they want far more deiin-
iely than do their opponents. They are IN earnest,
too, ana Spain Is likely 10 SINK very much lower DE-
fore she rises purified by fire aud blood. Autonomy
of the provinces they must and will have As Late
as the reign of Isabella Spanish coins described the
Queen as sovereign of " the SPANS" She was
Queen of the SPANS Arragon had one code, CASTLE
another. Anfalusa is locally unlike Galicia. The
Basque provinces are gwen over TO Carlism--whyf
They became Carlsts 40 years ago because they
were made to believe that if the constitution were
established they would be put on level with all the
rest Of Spain, whereas absolute Monarchy would
rssnect their nr;uiIeoes. IrneS are Carlists to-day
for the same reason. Six years later rheophile
Gantiar rrnta TINA of Old and New Castillo: