Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-06-24


Madrid, June 2l-The Impartial pub
fishes an interview its correspondent
has had with Don Carlos. As it is UNDER
stood that the pretender revised the in
terview before it was published his
statements may be regarded as in the
nature OF a manifesto. He said: Il
won't conceal from you that when l left
Venice last April l was resolved to pro-
test py means of force and arms, that is,
by ordering my partisans to rise against
the people who were prOstituting our
country by a series of unimaginable
humliatiuns; but when | learned that
war against the United States was i'm
| miuent and might be declared at any
moment. | changed my resolution and
firmly decided to observe the most abso-
| lutte impassiVity.
"UnsWerved from this decision, l do
not desire to create the least difficulty
for my country. since it is most i'm
portant that all of her children should
sacrifice themselves for her. My en-
! forced inaCtiOn puts me to despair; but
| | carry it to the extreme of depriVing
myself even of expressing my opinion
as to current events. The governing
/ statesmen who have committed the
crime of not preparing the nation for a
wa" everyone saw to be unavoidable for
| the last two years will never be able to
| accuse me of having withdrawn a single
! Spanish will from the national forces in
| the fight with the United States. They
| brought on the war by yielding con-
| tinually to American demands, and they
will have to take the responsibilities of
| their mistakes.
This attitude of mine will last so long
as the present condition of affairs en-
| dures, but when the hour for the great
settlement arrives l shall make up for
my present silence. l will then take my
revenge, not by means of words alone,
but by means of acts, and will do that
as soon as my conscience as a Spaniard
permits me to do it. | am firmly re-
solved to fulfil my duty to the end and
to omit no sacrifices in order to redeem
and avenge Spain"
When questioned as to the policy he
would adopt in case he should mount
the throne, the pretender said he could
not enter upon that subject beyond ad-
mitting the necessity for a large increase
in the navy; but he declared that he had
thought out and completed plans re-
garding the military problem and the
question of Spain's foreign policy. They
are my favorite subjects of meditation, "
he observed, "and l have certain mature
ideas of my own regarding them. have
even carried some preliminaries re-
specting alliances which | hope will
some day yield excellent results. This
in my judgment, is the capital point; be
cause the proud isolation of Great
Britain has been and is deadly to Spain
| must pass the same judgment on the
policy of going about begging for pro.
lection and intervention. The result
of such policy can only be to reduce
to the condition of Greece or Servia the
Spanish nation, which was once the mis-
tress of the world"
Kingston, June 21.--General Garcia
and his personal staff were picked III
at General Rabi's camp IS miles west OF
Santiago, and brought to the New Yor(
by the Vixen. There the grizzled ant
wounded patriots had long consulta
ton with Admiral Sampson regarding
the operations for the investment o