The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12
Car Semtfnsl.
THURSDAY. AUG. y.

Don Carlos has written to his cCusiEi Don
Alfonso, the present king of Spain, persusd-
in., him that he has no right to the throne,
and that be should yisld up The cares Of state
to his relative, casually remarkiDg that he
intends to have them at any rate. The SEN
tinol is generally content to allow the
sem occasional revolutions IN Spain to
run their course without comment,
as they are as little worthy oil
remark as the shifting of clouds in q windy
sky. But sometimes the impudence OF
these pretenders to European thrones forces
their claims upon a reluctant attention and
provokes an indignant protest. If it were
not for the intrigues OF these Spanish
Bourbons, who imagine that the Lord, with
out endowing them with any mental peeu-
liarity save pride, created them TO rule
over millions of their fellow men, Spain
might be a happy and prosperous republic.
But these royal adventurers, with their
sdherents, sit watching the progress OF their
country, and at every movement favorable
for sedition, they excite a faction ready to
sacrifice the public good for party triumph.
Sometimes they move in the name OF
rel2lODs sOIncllIucS u bhC ACPAO7OAto'
tive OF divine right; sometimes as
the advocates of a constitution, but
always spurred on by ambition and selfish
grasping after power. And the hope Of
office and honors gathers set of desperate
characters about them. What is Don Carlos
or Don Alfonso, either, that they should be
worrying Spain like couple of brutal bull
dogs quarreling over bone? The people of
the country should realize the fact that
once king has been kicked out for
misconduct, neither he nor his de-
scendents should be considered as having
any greater claim upon the nation than the
poorest peasant in it. II may be that N
Carlos is the representative OF certain ideas
and theories OF government, and that he Is
accepted as such By his followers, but he him
self puts faith, not in his mission, but sim
ply in his personality. he speaks of him
self as the heaven appointed
ruler of the nation. Addressing Al
fonso. he asks that prince to con-
slider "the families brutality driven from
their homes" "the mothers with blood
stained feet following their sons over the
mountains" "old men, children and inva-
lids asking for bread" with all the other
horrors of civil war, and yet he keeps on
deliberately in the tanatical strife. Such
fellows seem TO think it perfectly
natural that they should have their
feet upon the necks of others,
and one csn hardly sympathize with the !
bounds who appear 10 imagine that they |
we're born to be thus trodden on. France is |
no less prosecuted by her various dethroned /
kings than Spain, and when ii is remem-
bered how she is torn with contending par !
ties of Orleanists, Bourbonists,sndB onapsrt-
lists, each striving to get control OF the fair
and noble land merely for a division !
of her sp0ils, one is tempted 10 wish that the
guillotine had made clean work of Louis
CSpet and all his relatives, direct and coll
lateral, and that Napoleon and all his seed,
breed and generation had been set on st.
Helena. and that the volcanic island had
gone down with them into the sea whence It
arose. There is terrible lon
gevity about the claims of de-
throned royal family. Their title
descends from sire to son, and neither
failure nor disaster can extinguish it. 1t is
q blessing for England that the Stusrts have
died out, for if they had remained it is doubt
full If even that steady going land would
have escaped its periodical revolution. so
long as there remained P:etender to ronse
the highlands, there was a rebellion in
Scotland every few years. 1t would be
natural TO suppose that the descendants OF
a man whom nation had entrusted with
its rulership, would remain content and
thankful in whatever position the nation
assigned 20 them, but these sons OF kings
and empsrors appear to imagine that they
were not created for the good Of the ration,
but the nation for the good of them. These
pestilent conspirators for crowns Ought to
be outlawed and hunted out OF Europe as
enemies of the public peace.
b Now that the storms are over and the des
olssIon OF wealth which short time ago
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