The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-01
The Spanish war.

The Spanish War.
AL accounts tend to confirm the an
louncement made some some days ago
Mat the civil war In Spain had eventu-
lted in the defeat Of Don CARLOS, and
me establishment Of ALFONSO on the
bpanish throne.
Spain has always been turbulent
hnd. From the days of the Punie wars
between the ancient Carthaginians and
Ihe Romans, even down to these days OF
Alfonzo and Don Carlos, the 1berian
Peninsula has been the theater OF bloody
had yindictive wars. The PhGnicians,
! 40 worshiped the Sun; the Romans,
WHO. worshiped their Jupiter; the
Goors, who were followers OF Mahomet;
,ne Christians, who were leagued with the
kcusades; have all, in turn, held domln-
ion in Spain. Under the Saracenie do
ninion, when the Arab swayed her
,cepter, Spain was "the land OF Science
and song.", 1t was through the Sayans
bt Salamanca and Barcelona and the
ninstrels of Andalusia that Northern
Europe received its earliest lessons in
bur modern civilization. Spain was al
ways an important factor through all the
political and military commissions Of the
Middle Ages. In modern. history she
became the greatest discoverer and the
widest colonizer Of all the nations OF the
world. ...s..........
Under her Ferdinand and Isabella, her
Charles V, and Philip III, Spain domi-
mated all VI Western Europe. Her deca-
dence began when, by virtue of the
Greatly OF Utrecht, in 1713, the Bourbon
first mounted her throne. For more than
three, hundred years has that Bourbon
family been an inoubusppon the thrones
OF Continental Europe. The present
Spanish war is but a, Bourbon feud,
prosecuted, through devastation, and
slaughter by rival members of the same
House, to reach throne that really be-
longed to neither.
This feud, which is now eliminating
in the overthrow OF the last, hope OF the
'Carlists, is OF fully forty years. standing
and during nearly all of that long pc
sriod it has convulsed Spain and caused
almost continuous civil wars for the sue
cession. The victories that give tht
crown to the present youthful King ena
BILE him to mount the throne of Spain as
ALFONSO XII, the first of that name or
lthe throne since 1912. when Alfonso Xl
wore the crown Of "Spain, CASTLE, ant
Leon" now nearly six hundred years
ago. e a.ts
q Seven years have passed since his
mother, Queen Isabella ii, was com
PEELED to, vacate the throne and seel
safety from the fury of her incensed sub.
jects by precipitate fight to France
snd there she has ever since resided.
During that short interval of time Spain
has tried the experiment. or a Republic;
then of a monarchy under q sovereign
selected from the House OF Savoy, the
reIgning family Of Italy; and once again
Of another Bourbon, the son OK the
Queen whom they. had driven into igno.
minious exile. And this Bourbon youth
now wears the Spanish crown.
Itis reported that, upon bis full &C
session and peaceful organizatiop.of his
government, his mother, the Ex-Queen
tsabella, will return to Spain, and once
more occupy the palace Of its mouarchs.
The wisdom Of this step may, well be
donbtad;a for the spanish people have
Lever forgiven the scandals brought up
on lheir. pane BY the dissolute life Of
Queen Isabelle. And, they may be in
stigatea to risit upon the son the trans.
gressions and iniquities of the mother. {
!; This Queen came TO the throne when
shes@as, but three years old. Her moth
or. the infamous CHRISTINA, became
Queen Regent. AT the age Of sixteen
years Isabella was married to her cousin
Don francisco de Asis; a man whom
she aIways utterly, detested, as he
was utterly detestible. On the same
siay her Younger sister Louisa, at the
rgc OF fourteen, was also married to the
puke dc Monlpsnsier the Youngest son