The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-24

QUEEN IsABELLA.-The Catholic 7szesrapz
OF Cincinnati, has come to the defence of tha
reputationof this lady, which has been attacked
with so much venom by all the Protestant and
part of the Catholic press Of the country. II
asserts that the Infamous stories circulated
about her are only heard amongst the yilest of
the vile politicians who thropg the oeyss of
Madrid, and that they are not credited in the
respectable classes in the city, nor by the no
bles and peasantry. The Telegraph further
says:
In December, 1868, from the city of Paris,
Isabella defed her calumniators to prove any
thing against her public or private character.
she threw down challenge to any one, royal
lat or republican. None of them had the cour-
age to come forward to substantiate by evil
denee what they heard in all probability from
the lips OF some incontiDent women. No one
but dreamer supposes for moment that III
could have been proved during the past eight
years, but It would have been done. III the son
sis universally regarded ss illegitimate,n and
his mother SO very bad. Why didn't some Of the
charges to the Cortes and have them investi-
gated and the woman, If gully, and her chill
dren forever dislswed from the throne.
for truth and justice. W. knoW ths sossi Sas
nature of the Spaniard, from Santander to
Tarifa do not 5eliere one scord said against
her as wife and mother; we certainly bave
reason to find fault with her as o civil ruler.
In 1854 and 1866, whom dozen crafty, ambi-
tious men melted thoughtless soldiers to play
the role of mntineers, she should have laid iron
If, like her English namesake, she had made
pronouncing infamous and dangerous, she would
be on her throne to-day, and no tattler would
dare to cast reflection upon her honor. She
was weak when she should have been stern !;
she pardoned when she should have punished
upon the scaffold or the block; she forgave
when she should have fined, hogged and i'm
prisoned. She was always too tender-hearted
had a woman's horror of bloodshed. Justice
to herself and people demanded from her TWEEN
ty years ago that sho smother 'risngs'' in the
blood of their originators. $50
Spain, there can be NO pence to the country,
no prosperity to the people, till dabblers In
pronancianentoes are taught to obey the laws j;
the military adventurers Taught subordi nation,
and the civil power advanced to o higher
place than the military.
Referring to the moral tone of the people
of Spain, and the necessity of good govern
ment, the Telegraph continues thus:
The history OF the past eight years has placed
the people of Spain among the most orderly in
the world, in the matter of protecting personal
learn of any authentic outrage, notwithstand-
ing that the whole peninsula was one military
camp. The Radicals at Csrthsgena destroyed
ava q vast amount Sr!t OF government property, bnt
Seyrano and the perfdy of Prim.
people SO famous in art and religion, 50
gallant upon the seas and brave in the field,
SO proud fan ancestry and so frugal in their
living, cannot, we frankly admit, destroy the
customs and social usages of q thousand years.
They can only live happily under monarchy.
That is the form Of governments which viii
bring the most peace and prosperity to the
The people of Spain have had no hand in The
late revolutions. They were ooncocted and
put in practice in the barrack-roons. Tie
people suffered while the Prims, Serranos, Ca
ballero de Rodas and some twenty others held
high carnival; the army suffered in it's morale,
the credit, moral, political and financial, Of
the nation went down to point unparalleled
in her history. They were the brigands Of
the country, and when caught, should be treat
ed as they deserve, as brigands.
Spain is the richest land in Europe. Her
great resources, her varied climate, her healthy
people, give her immense advantages over her
contemporaries. Her curse is the military
ring. That she must break; she will and must
do 80 if she hopes to restore the once proud
peninsula to it's normal renown and proper
place among the nations.
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