Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-02-05
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Scribner's has timely ana lnterest-
ing paper on "Carlism in Spain, which
at this juncture of affairs in that un-
happy country will commend itself to
many readers. The fact is that what
are now painfully notorious as the Car
ist troubles had their birth no longer
ago than March %, 1880, when Ferdi-
nand VII. caused to be republished,
with additional sanctions, the Pragmat-
lea of his father, Carlos w., in order to
remove every obstacle which might be
in the way of the succession to the
throne of then expected child, what
ever it's sex might be. AS the child
proved to be o daughter, since well
known as Isabella H., her birth became
the signal for civil commotion in the
interest of Don Carlos Ferdinand's
brother, aiming to revive the French
Salic law which Philip Y. had intro
duced, and which the Pragmatica had
nullifed. We have not space to give
the writer's rapid but graphic summary
of historical events occurring during
Ferdinand's lifetime, nor the lucid and
interesting record he reproduces, touch
ing the celebrated Salic law itself. But
our readers will be glad to look over the
following clear statement of the Carlist
question proper, and its present posi-
ton as an element of discord in Spain.
"In q little less than q year there
after (the reaffirmation Of the Pragmat-
ic Sanction), September 20, 1888, Ferdi-
nand died.
"His daughter, Isabella IL, was
proclaimed Queen of Spain, under the
regency of her mother, Maria Christina,
and immediately thereupon commenced
the war of revindication, or of the rival
claims to the throne Of Spain. Such
was the origin of the Carlist party.
"The Don Carlos of that day styled
himself Carlos v, as though he were in
reality king, unjustly deprived OF his
throne. His son, Carlos vi, Count OF
Montmolin, perpetuated the claim, but
died in 1861, without issue, when his
brother, Don Juan de Bourbon, inner.
tied his brothers rights, but instead OF
pursuing them signed an act OF abdica'
ton at Paris, October 8, 1868, in favor
of his son, the Duke of Madrid, who
now represents the Carlos interests
under the name of Carlos VII.
GAS between tho opposing claims oi
the Duke Of Madrid and Alphonso, the
Prince of Asturias, it seems to MS thai
there can pe no question. The right ot
Alphonso rests upon the ancient and
undeniable law OF the Spanish mon
archy. If it be asserted, in opposition
to his claim, that Philip V. changed tht
old Spanish law and substituted the
Salic law, which prevailed in France
with the consent OF the Cortes,it may
be answered that Carlos ~. and Ferdi
nand VII. changed the law back again
with the consent of the Cortes, and re-
stored the ancient law of the realm
and their act was surely as valid ant
effective as that of Philip V. Alphonsc
is the son of Isabella II. and francisco
d'Assise, Duke of Cadiz, who were mar
ried October 10, 1916. The Duke O
Cadiz is son OF the Infant Francisco dt
Paula, brother of Ferdinand VII.
"The Duke of Madrid, Carlos VII.
the Pretender, Prince of Bourbon ant
Este, was born at Venice, March 27
184S, of Don Juan de Bourbon ant
Donna Beatrix d'Este, Archduchess o
Austria. He was educated in the Mill
tary Academy of Vienna. In 1867 h
married, at Gratz, Styria, the Princes
Margarita de Bourbon, daughter of th'
Duchess of Parma, and niece of Comt'
de Chambord, the claimant of th'
French crown, as heir of the eide
branch of the house of Bourbon"