Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-05
CARSON CITY:
SPAIN.


Cronis,a announces that the Hing will
take command of the Northern army
carly in December.
An official dispatch from MARTINEZ
Campos, states that the last of the Car
list rebels in Catalonia, numbering siX
hundred and eighty. including SIX com
manders, ss K amnesty. The pacific ton
Of the Province is reported complete
A special dispatch to the - Morning
Post renorts that the Carlists have re-
occupied Orduna.-Pr:ss dispatch
The Carlists and Aifonsists are still
PLAYING at haitledore and shuttiecock,
chasing one another over the fields
and through the towns and villages OF
Spain. up one side and down the other,
each claiming victories, and both hungry.
foricrn. vagabonGish ami careless OF
everything but the termination of hos
tilitiss, which means the ending Of n
license to steal horses, rob ana press
lie pea-sntrv aud lad II life of brigand-
age and aimless adventure Years OF
professional, soldering and consequent
;mproyidence have wrecked tie morals
Of the Spanish people. left them without
any sense of duty, and united them 10;
the steiner and prosier businesses of
life. They date back to the days Of tie
C.us.des, and dream the dream OF Ponce
lie Leon and pleasantly deceive them
selves with the hallucinatloEs which
carried afar TIE legions Of Cortez ami
Pizarro and gave birth to the chimera OF
Ell Dorado. There Is nothing there like
the stern earnestress Of the colder races
If the north. Even the French, " TN
stable IS water are a serIous-minded
people in everything save religion, com
pared with The Spaniards. Germany or
England or the United States would
have smashed the Cuban reheliion IN 4
month. The longer Spain tries her
hand at subjugaiing the insurgents Of
her lever faithful isle" the more plainly
Is the fact illustrated that she holds the
sword with impotent hands and carries
the wager of battle with weak and fitful
impulse. When Ceramics wrote Don
Guixo.e he satariZed the then existing
folly of Spanish chivalry. That folly,
scornirg the habits and progress and
necessities of the Nineteenth Century,
still dominates Spain. GraTe Senators
and grey-haired generals settle their diff
ferences on the field Of honor with q
religious sincerity which would be alb
surd were it not for the stately dignity
with which their deadly combats are con-
Quoted. When Montpensier shot TO
death in duel his half brother. Henri
lie Bourbon, the press, overawed by the
mandates of the code of honor only
dared to mention the killing of the
Prince as of his sad and sudden death
as if lie had died of appopleIy or the
heart disease. To-day no public man
can live in Spain who does not hold
himself amenable, at all times and places
to answer q call to the duelling field.
This pernicious example from the Dons
and Hidalgos is not lost upon the peo-
ple, Ones "honor is of more value
than ones solvency or ones cleanliness.
To be pure Castillian, penniless though
he NAV be, is set above riches and hon
ors and comforts. And then. soaring
above the b!ackened walls of the Esco-
rial rises the ghost Of Philip the Bisot
and scares the souls of a population
priest ridden to the dust and stepped to
the eyes in superstition and the intoler-
ance of In irrefragib!e bigotry. Indeed
the kew is here. The worst psrversions
Of the Catholic faith is the disease which
units the Spanish mind for the duller
and more serious concerns % life. For
centuries it was the business of the
mobiles to 30 to war and conduct cru
sades. For like centuries it was the
business of the people to hold them
selves in readiness to serve in the ranks
Over all, chiefest in business and power,
stood the priesthood. learned, crafty,
ambitious and cruel. Kings held their
tenure and wore their crowns under
favor and caprice Of Popes. To be sx-
communicated was to be delivered over
10 the Devil. and tine Devil was the H.
auisition and its fortunes. the mob with
its faggots and its fires. Sober industry
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