Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-28
CASTELAR'S IDEAL.
Views of the Great Orator on the Pres
ent Political Crisis.

ent Political Crisis.
Nadrid Correspondence v. y. Herald.
| asked of Senior CASTELAR, his opinion on
Spanish affairs, and he frankly told me
that he could not furnish me with better
exposition than the very manifesto he read
to the Senators and deputies of his party.
He told me that he deplOred the divisions
of the Liberals as much.as he did those of
his own Republican schools, because upon
these divisions the TeactiOnary and con-
servatiVe schools raise political capital at a
Bourbon Court to pave the way for re-
turn to CanOvas and reaction. He
spoke kindly of SerranO and Sagasta. and
he rather maliciOusly observed that he
and moderate Republicans would ALWAYS
be most favorable for the policy under the
restored monarchy which afforded most
liberty and federation for his own Republi-
can, though peaceful and legal, propa-
gand. He then took up his manuscript of
the manifesto and read it out aloud with
that peculiar quick, vivid, passionate
tone that he displays whenever he speaks
out his Republican feelings. In the first
part of the manifesto, which merely traces
the line of conduct recommended to his
electors and the advantages Of the Parla-
mentary institutions and electoral sinceri-
ty which prepare Democracy for its future
destinies, Castelar, did not show much
passion. But when he reached the part
of his manifesto that is vindicatiOn,
clear, precise, unconditional, hopeful
and irrecOncilable of his Republican
convictions and his belief in the certain
if slow, advent by and by of the Republic
can form of government in his native land
his features became almost stern, his ewes
| brilliant, his countenance as Illuminated
as in his best parliamentary struggles he
almost detained his manifesto from
memory and as if gazing in the future he
desired, when, the large room full of books,
the tables piled up with papers and dOcu-
ments, the floor strewed with journals,
the young secretary staring in mute adj
miration, and stranger, foreigner
were the silent witnesses OF this striking
scene,
eve want" he says, "a vigorous Re-
public with all those factors Of rapid pro-
gress and all those guards Of well meas
ured and duly pOndered resistance to
enable our Republic to advance unceas-
ingly toward our ideal of the future, and
at the same time to preserve it from dis
turbance by sudden connections within
and to save it from unexpected catastrO-
Plies. We call ourselves historical Repub-
licans because those words embOdy our
conception of liberty, of democracy, Of
Fatherland. We style ourselves shist0ri-
cos not only in consequence of our an
cient loyalty to our political faith, but
also because the luminous experience of
our politics has proved that our moderate
policy would best preserve this nation
in perfect and lasting harmony
and equilibrium" He then makes a rapid,
passing allusion, full of irony, to those
Democrats who change sides and believe
compatible Democracy and monarchy,
(which he does not" eve have been
faithful during ten years to programme
essayed amid many tempests. L and my
friends pursue our way yet toward a
steady and solid republic, most truly and
advantageously capable of replacing to
the benefit of order and tranquility the
old historical institutions shoFn as they