New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-06
The Situation i'm Soaino

SfarShaY Serranos whd1 about aceaf ago.
shaved off his grand mustacHa III ordef
80 disguise himself Beyond recognition
and sueaked QUE of Madrid by night and
hurriedly crossed the Sordes into France to
place Of safetyoYs to-day at the head Of
the SpanisB goveSnments and Emilio
Castelar, the best and pures: OF SPANS
living stasesmens! sn setjgacy and !a dis
grace
This is probably .fe enH os the Spanish
sepublic-or the beginning Of the end,
While CASTELAR, was sustained. there was
every hope fop its permanencye With his
sverthrowe and his refusal to have anything
is lefte
With Castelar, iHmseSHo perhaps. IN great
measure rests the blame of the present
state o. affairs, for generous and faithful
himself, when he called Serrauo and Topete
to his councisohe had no idea that bs was
nursing treacherye 1t was his purpose to
make a strong government for Spain by
satisfying the best of the conflicting eleo
ments that go to make up her politics. He
magnanimously trusted to the honor Of the
officers of the army and now reaps the rec
ward of his confidence in his own betrayal.
Serrano has it not in him to be to Spain
what Mac Mahon is to France. There is no
more similarity between these two than be-
tween the defeated Thiers and Castelar,
Serrano, whom contemporary calls po-
Hticai Turvydrop, is more that than any'
thing elsee Availability has two OF three
times given him prominence. set he has
never achieved any position except through
the devious ways OF fa!sehood snd du.
plicitye His reign will be briefs Perhaps,
if there was greatness ip him. he might try
to maintain himself at the head of the govs
ernmente He has been the central figure
heretofore among the conspirators for Don
Alphonses 1t is doubtless in the interest of
this royal claimant that he is now at the
head of affairs. 1t would of Course be con.
sistent with his character to betray this
cause for his own aggrandizement, did he
not know that he would lose more than his
moustache the next time
In our dispatches the new ministry fs an
nounced. Europe does not present a more
unprincipled character in political life than
Sagosta, the new Minister of Foreign AT
airs. Echagerray is again Minister of FL
nances, where he has blundered SO egregi-
ously in years gone by. Becerra, a man
whose traits are those of the mob leader,
verging close upon communism, is, singu-
larly enough, selected for Minister of Agri-
culture Bluff old Topete is Minister of
Marine, probably the most respectable
figure of the new Cabinet. unless it be
Rigaerela, the Minister Of Justice. who
served Spain in the days OF Pgim with some
credit
This change IN the conduc: OF Spanish
affairs will probably have tie effec. to
damage our affairs with that government
more than ever. 1t is notorious that Ser
rano and Sagosta are no friends Of the
United States, and their emerging into
power will have the effect to unloosen the
ties of fraternity which CASTELAR, so stu
diously strengthened This revulsion of
feeling will in turn, convert Itself into new
sympathy for the struggling Cubans, and
the Gem of the Antilles may not be SO
secure in its setting n she Spanish heads
piece, after alls