The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-09-30
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A. Aoeouns 4 ~ Disputsd sasossssA
and No. 1sims ~ D. Carlos.
Philadelphia Times.
The dispute over the Spanish sue
Icessiony to which the death Of Alfonso
gives fresh interest. has its origin Ia.
The abolition BY Ferdinand VII, ~
tho pragmatic sanction o. March 29,
1880, of the salic law of the Bourbon
family. This was done at the instiga
ton of his wife, Maria Christina, q
Neapolitan princess, and the result
was to make heirdaughter; who was
born in that year,the heir tothethrone
Id place Of his brother, Don Carlos.
The latter entered aprotest against his
exclusion from thethroneswhich was
sustained by the Bourbonic courts OF,
Italy. and on the death OF Ferdinand
VII. in 1888 hewas proclaimed Charles
W., being supported by q majority
of the clergy and the country people
throughout the kingdom.
The Salic law, itmay be explained.
was the code established by the Sail,
ans or Salic Franks who, under Clovis
founded the French monarchy. Under
the Salic laws females were prohibited
from inherting landed property and
this feature Of their law continued to
prevail in France with respect to the
inheritance Of the crown, and also in
Spain, under the Borbon line, until
the date referredto. The transfer of,
the crown therefore, to the Infanta5
Isabella, with the Queen Mother Maria
Christina as regent, was a departure
from tradition that was opposed bya
very large partsof the nation. The
Carllsts were at first so successfult that
Christina was compelled to obtain
foreign recuits for her army, but after,
the death ofZumalacarreguy the Carl
ist leader, the royal troops, under;
command o. Espartero, gradually
gained the ascendancy. It was not,
however, until 1889 that the Carlists
were finally overpowered and Don.
Carlos fled to France, though the war
was not fully ended till a year later.
This was not Accomplished until the.
government had made many concess.
ions to the progressive party or exal-
tades and radicals, and hadbe com
PEELED to adopt the modified constitu-
tion Of 1912. Soon after this other
OF 1910 Marie Christina resigned and
left Spain with q number Of conserve
tive leaders, leaving the government
the hands Of the progressive
party. The Cortes appointed
Espartero regentsdurlng the minority
of the Queen, and under his admins
tration great advances were made in
the internal economy of Spain, until
an attempt was made to seize upon
church property provoked general in
~surrection, and in 1843 Espartero in
his turn embarked for England. The
queen was in this year declared of age,
q moderate ministry was formed,
Christina was recalled, and soon after
the constitution Of 1845 was adopted
The ups and downs Of the reign of
Isabella III, have nothing to do with
the present subject. There were sew
eral Carlist outbreaks during this
period in favor of Don Carlos, Count
de Montemolin, known as Charles VI,
the son of the brother Of Ferdinand
VII, already spoken of as Charles w.
On his death, in 1851, his right de-
volved on his brother, Don Juan, who,
in October, 1868, abdicated in favor
of his son, the present Don Carlos,
the titular Charles VII. This was inn
mediately after the success Of the in
surrection in 1868 and the fight Of
Isabella from Spain. Don Carlos did
not make his entry into Spain III as
sertion of his claim to thethroneu until,
1873, the country having inthe mean
while been passing through period
of storm and stress with various
experimental governments. After.
the failure of the attempt to
establish Amadeus, son of the King.
OF Italy, upon the throne, Marshal
Serrano, whose death is just announc-
ed, and who was elected President of
the Republic, became the virtualruler,
and devoted himself TO hesuppression
of the Carlists. In this he succeeded,
but seeing a Republic to be imDractic-
ably he made no opposition to the re-
storation Of the other branch of. the
royal family in the person Of Alfonso.
In 1876 after a long andgallant strug-
gle, the Carlists received al final defeat
and Don Carlos withdrew from Spain.
In q manifesto issued from Paris he
said: being DESTROYS of putting a
stop to bloodshed, i forbear continu-
ing a glorious but at present frlitless
struggle. Twill v sign aconvenio.
My flag remains furled until the mo-
ment when God shall fix as the SUI
Drene hour Of.TedemptiOil.