The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-13
sONvILLE, La, SATURDAY, MARCH l3, 1876
Castelar's Opinion Of Aifonso.

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The special Spanish correspondent
Of the London News gives the follow.
ing account of an interview he re-
Gently had with Senor CASTELAR,
4 The other night had y very inter
esting and. in some sense, pathetic
interview with Spaip's most tshintcr-
ested refOrmer. Bitter us 1E.s been
his disappointment, cruet as ~ the
consciousness that the present cut
come of all his travail for tive resvn-
Grafton OF Spain is the Bourbon rtsto-
ration, he is able, like the ancient Ro-
man, rqu0in nsc,aesto reb,s IN artluis
serrare aentens. There were times
wlleil it seemed to me that be de-
sir,Mted ntteyly j; at the best his hope
Is very feeble and Pickering. But he
lEstl hist nothing Of his wonted bril-
liaiH'y and felicity IN conveying his
i'~'tl.ing; unfortunately NY power of
reproducing his utterances is very in
commensurate, and the best that |
can hope to do is to give IL general
SUMMARY of his views. -..5
His republic, he said, l,a.1 been the
republic of order and hgality-the
reconstructive, developing, improving
republic. Bns Spain was not ripe for
this; every where he had found sell
fish intrigue, gyeed, corruption, and
no soundncss Of elastic sI,ringboard
| whence tn mike Ill effort. His essay
| has failed lv reason of the absolute
and utter disorganizati"n of his party.
, Some had gone one way, lapscl into
/ red rrpnhlicanism, and SO brought
ridicule on the cause; others had
struggled into Alfonsisn., and others
had cared only for themselves and
were prepared to be any thing 40 that
at least they might be some thing for
their own advantage. eyes," he
owned, With a sigh and shading of
the eyes, "my party is entirely bro
ken up, whistlrd down the wind. As
to the future, Quicn sabe ?" The only
policy WAS to wait and watch the
chance might offer again when least
anticipated. Would his nlherents
constitute themselves into I'LL opposi-
tion and fight the liberal battle con-
stitntionally "In what way was
this possible ~ was the challenging
reply. s. We do not know how it is
possible for ia to take the Oatl,s of
allegiance to his rc,ctionary regime,
and. granting onr readiness for the
good Of the carlsc, where is our field
of action ! The Corh.s is closed to
us. Robletlo, the Minister of the In
terror, who has served his apprentice
Observation-Disclosures @sa9ssAayp~asslll
who. by the way, has been all round
the political clocls-lecn an Isabelist,
an Amadeist, Montpensierist, II Ser
ranist, every thing but genuine re-
pnblican-he will 40 manipulate the.
elections as t" keep every one ont
VIII" is'not of the true Alfnnsist color"
| asked Senor CASTELAR, if he were
free t. speak Of the probabilities of
ta'e future. "'rhe fnture," said he's
." il chaos. Tie. political situation is
as bad as it can be. Car
iism is impossible; that is one Ger
tain consolation. Alfonsism il tres
Its very essence is reaction. |
1t is standing menace to every
toward liberty. 1t meraces
alike religious liberty, civil freedom
and public instruction. 1t blocks
every wheel Of progress. Alfonsism
means the dominance of priestcraft,
the perpetuatio" of superstition, the
willfnl maintenance Of ignorance, the
Of the liberty of the press,
freedom of Thought, of instruction and
of culture in our academies and uni
vcrsities, general darkness over the
face of all the land. 1t may last for
II time, but the same elements that
overtllrew the dynasty before must
inevitably operate toward and culmi-
nate III the nphcaval In the mean
time. ali that l can sadly discern il
that the political situation is epouran-
table"