New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-21
SPAIN AT PEACE.
THE FLIGHT OF DON CARLOS.

GHgATEp REPORTS OF THE RECENT BATTLES
ELsMENTS or DISTURBANCE IN sPAIS
JFRox A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
Loxp0S. March Now that Don Carlos has ao-
tnsiy quilted spanish territory, the question most
important to tho Spaniards with reference 20 his de-
parture. is whether he driven out or bought out
Were any terms made with him. and what terms
II Is said none were made but the only Guotabe
authority for this is Madrid papers assertion that
Senior Canoyas dol CASTILLO has said 80. The Presi-
of the Council, this paper has assured sVefai
Deputies that concession whatever ms been maze
10 the Carlists "whOso submission is entirely I'M
conditional" Certainly the latter claim is not true
The Carlist leaders have not submitted they have
escaped into France. Their rout is so complete,
their cause so utterly lost that ought to be able
90 accept the assurance that il not necessary to
bride them To 60. Thus conviction rests, however,
ON the inherent probabilities of the case, ami not on
sssuranccs No testimony could he worthless
than the statement of Madrid paper Of what
Minister was said 10 have said to Deputy-whch
is heaIsay three times over, and Spanish hearsay AT
that Since, however. the Carlist organs which
have lied with great steainess aud inimitabic ef-
frontery for the last two years. do not now pretend
that any bargain has been made. we may iAlriy
presume none has been made. Even the
London Cariist Committee has put ont no bulletin
since its chiefs foot touched French soil it has not
that is attempted in what put forth as official
communications FROM the Pretender, is 10 soften
some of the bard facts. Don Carlos has entered
France voluntarily desiring to suspend q s'rug-
gle which would have been useless To the cause
And n pleasing picture is drawn Of tie " hlnG,"
crossing the border with division of troops rs
escort which drew up on the road, paid military
honors TO the King. checrel him. and thea, destroy
ing their arms, followed him into exile" We are
further told that he surrendered neither to the
Alfonsists nor 10 France. AFTER heroic
struggle he has voluntarily laid down his
arms. thus reserving 10 himself the FIXTURE which
belongs 10 him." A less heroic story Is told
in another quarter Don CsTlOSs retirement accord
ing toths account is due 70 more or less heroic
impulse than the desire to take Possession oil III"
legacy left him by the Duke Of MO!ena This Is
computed al tho enormous sum OF rio.GDtoo' anu
WAS coupled with the condition that it should not DO
pad till Don Carlos bod either assembled the
throne of Spain quilted that country altogether
His chance OF ascending the throne bavinS dIsap
peared the thrifty Prince accepts the other
alternative, and the money. the iats Duke
was shrewd fellow. aud by 10 means
cared to see his accumulated plurder lissipa;ed
in further hopeless military efforts. Nothing eats
ND money ~ fast ~ cannon ard gunpowder. except
supplies for hungry Spanish bellies and jackets for
ragged Spanish backs. Nor need il be assumed that
Don Carlos has drawn largely on his own means LOT
the war. Private means would go but little way to
keep alsht even the feeble flames of such war as
he had kindlcd Funds have come ~ him from
wherever the priests bear sway, and 70 soe extent
from Legitm;s,, AbsOiutSt, and Tory sources as
well. 1t is not from lack Of money that The
war has languished. A prospect, ever so faint,
of success would have set the stream How
ing into his Golfers more. People
naturally got tired OF pouring into bottomleSs pitt
or of feeding a fire which would not burn. They
wanted soale lighting for their money ami latteriy
they have COT very little of H. Tho heroic element
sessns wanting in Don Carlos himself He ~ "a more
of n Mcclellan than "A MacNahon-for the latter,
though not much more of a general than the
former never thought il his uty TO keep ont OF the
wsy of bullets The Savaresc said 70 have le.s
admiration than they should for strategy and
tactics They would have liked to see their chief
under fire; and considering whas the fire
was for the most part, he might have
C1atifed them without mach risk In per
sonal courage no may not be deficient. bnt ne
should have known better than 20 yield 60 tho advice
of the men about him whose duty 10 was 10 keep him
out of Danger Just il was his 70 find bis way INTO
it, somehow. For this, or other reasons, he Pulled.
after time in keeping mp tho enthusiasm winch
his first appearance Spanish soil evoked. There
bas not been much hard ghting There has, III fact,
would be a. raj curiosity. Both side, how
ever, have prudeDty abstained irom Offering
statements Of This kind 10 the public, They have
preferred glittering generaities such as The enemy
sustained heavy LOSSES" the carnage on both sides
WAS terrible" and the like. Bulletins Of tbs sort
presently pallsd upon the cars of the f'i.hful.
Skoptics and especially men who had seen some
thing of Spanish troops in recent days sngeored az
tl,.-n irreycrenty from the beginning.
The demeauor of the French Government, and Of
the European Press generally in presence OF these
events is instructive TO Republican. Don C'rlos Is
an asventurer whose sole title IN b. anything more
than brirand lies In the accident Of birth Under
the existing European system. nader any accspred
rule of International Law, his operations IL the
North of Spain were murder and highway robbery.
He happened, however, to represent III Legitimist
ewes what is called the principle Of Legitimacy and
m priestly eyes what is called the Ult.anontane
principle He wac not brigand simply because he
was tool in the hands of Rome, and of the religious
fanatics t. whom Rome is more than then own
country. When his long and cruel warfare has
failed, he sends word 10 cOmplaisant fronch f,lnc-
tionarfes across the border that he will surrender
himself into French custody He is received with
the honors of war. He and his stait permitted TO
retain their swords and their horses. Free passage
across French territory ia given him. and he Is e-
peetea 10 arrive in England i'll day or two
Contrast this With the treatment of the men who
risk.4-,s Don Carlos never did--their lives and
fortunes for freedom in is45. say nothing Of the
Communists because their political acts and their
crimes against society were so intcrrningled that
many of them cen no more DO justified than Carst
warfare can be justified Still something has been
80 Evep AbEOiutlsfS.