The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-11
SPANISH EuLoGY or oANOvAs.
More English as She is spoke I'm Ha-
vnna by the Marquis of Cervern
and VfII-Itre

more English as She Is spoke I'm Ha-
vnna by the Marquis of Cervern
and ViII-Itre.
From La Carta del Sabado.
1t win not cause surprise, therefore. to
who should read, Notwithstanding little
notices that he may have Of our matters
my explicit declaration that considered
always Mr.. Canovas as one of the great
est estadists Of the epoch. not inferior to
any other that could be mentioned to me
in any country, and at the same time one
of the first orators of the times.
He was besides, historian and publlclst
of great gifts, whose influence in the de-
veloping of the moral and political ideas
in the different countries of our race, has
been so profound, that viii trancend to
very distant times. without being advert
ed even if many should try to.
1t is undoubtable that without the decid-
ed concourse that he constantly lent to
the King d. Alfonso. and which he never
ceased loaniug, while the regent queen,
saw it well to dispense her confidence of
the government, or without the co-opera-
ton that Mr.. Sagasta always patriotlcal-
" loaned, as chief of the constitutional,
that the English cal opposition of II. M.
to indicate that tit forms part integrant and
necessary of the political organism, in
ali nation, Parliamentary reigned. his
high and difficult empress would have
many times wrecked.
All great political work, is before all
national work; never has a man alone been
able to accomplish It, and only does the
exit crown his desires, when the governor
is legitimate exponent of the historic nee
essity and to his work the social strength
comes that demands its discharge.
Mr.. Antonio Canovas, having with lex
ible, but strong hands the rens of the
government. when still the provinces of
the north and center of the peninsula were
devasted by the Carlists, and part of this
island by the separatist order, and when
the common sense Of the restauracion ia
vored 50 theoretically like the exception
al state of the monarchy, the predominion
of the arms, he new how to strongly nsti-
tute the supremacy of the civil power and
as natural consequences of the same che
predomion of the statesman, in the direc-
ton Of the public affairs ana the regener-
alton of the military costums: by the re-
moving of the politics from the principal
heroes Of the army that left Of disputlng
the government as before
In this manner the tormenting era of
recommendations closed itself, which had
its reason of being; but which could not
prolong itself, without completely dissolV-
ing the National State.
He proffessed deep fears against the
democracy, not because he should believe
1t fatally condemned to avoid the superior
ends of the state, but because he esti-
tt1r Il
interpreted its organization, specially In
countries so little prepared for It. as those
of Europe, monarchic and more or less
traditonalist.
But he never raised himself, as an ir-
reconciliable enemy or irreductibe adj
Yersary of such progresses making him
self very different from Quiet to whom
he is often compared without this special
difference being noticed.
He ardently loved his mother country
and he loaned Il eminent services. max
ing IL discover and ostentate in crisis like
the actual one, al its means and It's ener-
gies, to the surprise Of the other nations
And he has died in the plentiful of his
faculties, and of the power. as he some
times might have dreamed to die i'm noble
and heroic lmagnatons, proper OF his
manly spirit; defending without fainting
nor attrtbulatng himself, in the midst Of
a storm in which were the honor and in
tegtity of Spain, together with the foun-
dations of the social order against the an
9rchy, and at the hands Of one of those
fanatics and abominable sectarles of the
anti-social crime that the hatred Of class
and the demagOric publications. do not
cease to multiply in Europe and the
United States, to confirm the somber vat
icination that more than once and with
no supered eloquence Mr.. Canovas made
from Parliament and from the Casino de-
claring to them a mercless war In the
name of civilization and of the real lib
erty.