The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-25
FALL OF DON CARLOS.
The Carlist war Is virtually at an 4

The Carlist war 4. virtually Mt an End.
The Carlist war is virtually at an end,
and any future efforts by the adherents
of the pretender will be but little more
than the feverish struggles of dying
patient vainly contending against mex
orable fate. It is a law Of war, founded
upon reason, and permitted by almost
universal practice, that the attempted
defense OF an utterly indefensible city
acP Nrtlds ad age has 70 pans the
brave, but misguided mountaineers Of
Navarro and the Basque Provinces would
be impossible, and even II practicable u
crime Of the utmost magnitude. But
where blood is shed there must be re-
sponsibility for blood, and il to crafty
his ,wn personal ambition Don Carlos
seeks to protract the war, being thus, as
he is without a shadow OF q chance OF
success, he ought to be branded as
Napoleon was branded as a public en-
envy, and compelled to atone with his
cause. There is more than one precedent
| in history to justify such proceeding.
This Is the second attempt to disturb
the abrpgation of the Salic law by Ferdi-
nand VII and return to the older and
better laws of Spain which had mover
excluded the females from the throne.
It was In 1882 that this was done by
Royal decree, with the consent Of.
the Cortes. In the September of the
same year the King died. His daugh-
ter Isabella, then a minor, was
rose in revolt, which was not quelled
until 1920, when Moroto, for the Carlists,
and Espartero, for the young queen,
brought about the Convention of Yer
zara-the very spot which Don Alfonso
reached on Saturday. Every dispatch
now reminds us OF this old warfare. It
was at Estella where the Don Carlos of
forty four years ago was crowned and
even after Quinalacaregu1 1 died, as Con
cha died q year ago at Bilbao, Estella
held out to the last, and in memory
OF her resolution has ever since
called herself the EYor-Faithfnl City,
among the Carlists that their situation
was desperate, she certainly would
not have surrendered SO easily as
she did, at O'clock on Saturday morn
ing. 1t WAS at Durango, where the first
Don Carlos issued his sanguinary order
commanding that all foreigners taken
in arms against him should be put to
instant death, and 1t Is at Durango
where the Alfonsist Generals have just
now won important advantages. Hen
daye, which is constantly appearing in
the kilograms, was in 1899 Carlist rem
devious, and across the borders in
Basque dialect is still spoken, was the
scene OF the most energetic Oarlist
intrigues. This war has scarcely been
so bitter as the first. Count Ca
brera has persistently held aleof
from it. Elio, the ablest General in the
insurgent ranks, died some months ago.
Lizarraga, the second in command, has
been alter nately petted and disgraced
Saballs and the Cure Of Santa Cruz
have been the most conspicuous in all
the deeds Of cruelty, and to the eternal
disgrace OF their master, the butcherles
Of prisoners in cold blood by Saballs has
never been disayowed. At one time dur.
ing the war the issue to. 9 superficial
lists held nearly the whole country north
OF the Ebro, Cartagena,- under the
guidance OF irreconcilable Communists,
for long time defied all the efforts OF
the central authority. With all his in
fiuence, Figueras with difficulty kept
Barcelona quiet, and at last a third OF
Andalusia was In arms. Madrid was~m
confusion, and Alfonso, the younger
brother OF Don Carlos, made dash
upon Cuenca, ana Tor Jnroe DAYS Iualu-
tanned himself at distance OF not more
than sixty miles from Madrid. The
CarIists lost their opportunity never to
retrive it, and now at any moment
we may hear that the con
test which has been raging with
more or less vigor almost ever since Isa-
bella flight in September. 1868, Is nom
inally as well as virtually closed. Mo,
riones, Iona, Martinez Campos and
Primo da Rivera will then be masters OF
the situation, and if their rivalry leads
to no military p1'On,t1aceGnlent0 Spain
will have breathing space Tor that rest
and reppse which she needs more i'm
peratively than any other nation on
earth. II, then, affairs in Cuba are not
promptly settled, it will be self-eyident
that the colony must be abandoned, and
1t will be our duty jealously to watch
over the transfer OF the succession. =
Cincinnati Enquirer. e d1
Senator Jones is no longer the silver
tongued; but he sits tossing a white
swaddled baby on his knee, and sings:
IS Tutfolari, tutfolee,