The New York herald., 1874-07-01

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'turous life, with opportunities for plunder and
enterprise, to the more settled forms of gov
ernment, and accepting with more than
ultramontane fidelity the authority of the
Catholic Church, Don Carlos has really
continued armed operations in the
North-for effect in Rome and London,
Viewed as war there was never a more
wanton and causeless war than that which
animates his campaign. Not Spaniard
by birth, not even a descendant Of a
Spaniard, without drop of Spanish blood in
his veins, never even in Spain until he crossed
the Pyrenees a few months since with his
priests and his troopers, Don Carlos is only
an adventurer who succeeds in producing a
perpetual civil war in the hope that he may
seize the crown. Ignoring the spirit and the
duties of the age, going back to the time of
Louis XI., and assuming the long-forgotten
and despised legend of Divine Right, this
prince has claimed the privilege of
occupying some of the fairest prov
inces of Spain, to lay in waste, ravage
and destroy, to sacrifice life, industry
and wealth, to keep the country in an endless
turmoil-ignorant peasants cutting the throats
and burning the houses of other peasants,
merely that he shall ascend throne which
his ancestors usurped and be the absolute
master of Spain. This is all that we see in
the moral aspect of Carlism. 1t is the eleventh
century fighting for recognition in the nine
teenth, absolutism against liberty the inqui-
sltion against the free press All the support
the cause has received has been from the
Papacy, which is in rather desperate mood
at present and disposed to welcome any ally,
and the legitimists of all countries, who will
never feel that peace has returned to Europe
until the French Revolution has been atoned,
and until serfdom reigns in Russia, the an
Diet in Prussia.
So we dismiss the Carlist war as another
| phase of local, angry strife which has lasted
for more than forty years and which would
break out in armed opposition to the necessary
conservatism of any government, even if Don
Carlos were on the throne. Yet in logic and
truth there are but two parties in Spain, the
Carlists and the republicans Everything else
is an intrigue, and because it is an intrigue
we see the active men in Spain, like Serrano
and Sagasta, who are intriguers, opposing the
Carlists and the republicans. If kings reign
by the grace of God, if we are to
really have the eleventh century back again
with the feudal legends which are still rife in
Blscay and underlie the devotion of the
Basques to the Carlist cause, then this sombre,
gloomy young man should be King of Spain.
Between his cause and the Republic is that
wide, debatable land which Spanish states
men occupy with their ambitions and their
plots. There is scarcely fixed institution
that is not corrupt, and no country in
Europe has so many fixed institutions.
For centuries the Spaniard has been
the most loyal subject in Eurtpe-loya
70 prince, church and country, with
unqueshoning valor and fanaticism. CdnSe
quently there has grown up in Spain j
church, an army, an aristocracy and a cour
more deeply rooted than in any other Euro
pean nation. In no country have we seer
such loyalty as the Spaniard has given to th,
person and the prerogatives of the monarch
The Church ia Spain has ruled with ahsolut