Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-08
The New Spanish Monarchy.

ternational matters to the discussion
of metropolitan journals, but recent adj
vices from Spain have induced the
writer to depart from the usual course,
and offer few observations upon the
situation in that country. On the last
day Of the year just closed, the public
were advised by telegram from Paris,
that the Spanish Minister of the In
terror had sent q message to the Gov
ernors of Provinces tosthe effect that
Don ALFONSO, son of ex-Queen 1sA-
BELLA, had been proclaimed King by
thenation, the army, and the minis
try, and that he would proceed to
Spain Immediately by way of either
Cadz or Valencia. 1t was also stated
that some of the Carlist leaders had
laid down their arms and acknowl-
edged the new sovereign. On the
third Of this month we have informa-
tion from the same source, that Ger
many, among other European powers,
would recognize Don ALFONSO as
King Of Spain. Close upon the heels
of this important item wehave the on
dit by telegraph from New York, on
the fourth instant, that the President
of the United States, in view of the
fact that republicanism had been
knocked on the head in the Iberian
Peninsula, will take vigorous steps in
pushing to an issue the question of
outstanding damages which America
claims forthe well remembered Vir-
ginius case, and other outrages. Ever
since the repeating of the Salic law,
when petticoat government brought
in chaos along with MUSoRz, MAR
FoRI, and other favorites, Spain has
beef. battle-ground for the political
parties that have from time to time
domineered the situation there. At
one time it is the Carists; then the
adherents of Queen CHRISTINA; at
another the followers of ISABELLA or
AMADENs; still later we heard of CAS-.
TELARs so called Spanish Republic;
and now, to cap the climax, we have
the Bourbonis again in the person of
Prince ALFONSO, battling for a little
brief authority and the spoils of office
in Madrid;s : until the Instability of
her government has made Spain a by
word among the nations. But We do
not therefore counsel Intervention in
the internal affairs of Spain. We
only say that there ought to be rem
edy for all this, and the people of the
country should apply it, and that very
lsoon, too Profiting by the opportu-
nifty presented after the fall of Queen
ISABELLA, the Cubans took up arms
to oshake of the yoke of q metropolis
which could afford them no stable
government, ner any protection for
life or liberty under the laws. The
Cubans proclaimed freedom to the
blacks, q principle which, whatever
may be its intrinsic merits, has cost
these United States more than enough
of blood and treasure. The Cubans
have acquired through commercial
and social relations many sympathies
and sympathizers in our midst; yet we
have looked on in the most cold
blooded manner, seen the islanders
slaughtered by the thousands; suffered
their enemies to build in American
dock-yards, fleets for their eXtermina-
! tion, while the bare shelter of our har-
bors was denied to the patriots-and
all to give the people of Spain a
chance of consolidating some form of
stable government. Ever since the
10th of October, 1868, when the inn
mortal CARLOS MANUEL de CEsPEDEs
proclaimed Cuban independence, the
United States have played the part of
a poltroon, and sacrificed to bastard
interests every principle of liberty,
Justice, right. The Cubans and their
cause "a cause which must find an
echo in the breast of every true Amer
ican) were allowed to go by the board,
while our fellow citizens were mutt
lated, robbed, murdered in cold blood
throughout Cuba, and the American
Minister Systematically insulted in
Madrid, by the very people who re-
tain the great Antille only through
. American sufferance. Without going
back into the times of the te3Ameri-"
can civil war, when the port of Ha-
vana was crowded with hostile ships
armed against the commerce of this
country, it would be easy to enumer-
ate long list of insults that have
been put upon our flag, which this
Republic has magnanimously suffered
from Spain; such wrongs as no other
power would put up with. What ma
tion but ourselves would not have
sent out an army to Cuba and wiped
out in blood the stain put upon the
tal hxyf ho fol, mi. 40
of BURRIEL, and the slaughter
of those brave men Fry, RYAN and
Others? None that we know
of. During the brief reign of ANA
DEUS of Savoy, the Government in
Washington had their hands partially
tied, because of the tendency of the
Alabama claims question:; and when
the Spanish Republic was proclaimed
it became our duty as friends of the
new order of things, to give the DEM
ocratic regime then adopted a fair
trial: hut when SERRANO " who, if
rumor speaks the truth, is the putative
father of Don ALFoNSO-came into
power in Spain, then GRANTS Cabi-
net ought to have lost no time in en-
ergetically pressing this country's
claims, and bringing the questions in
volved toa final solution. We hear of
SERRANo's arrival in Brusselps; but
what he is doing there must be mys-
terry to every one, excepting his most
intimate friends. The public is left
to conjecture how the pronuacineiento
in favor of Don ALFONSO was effected;
but as erybody acquainted with
Spanish politics knew long ago that it
was to come off, no one felt the least
surprise when it did take place. SER
RANo could not have fled the country