The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-10
Messelmer.
R~ETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.

In Spain is grossly misunderstood and
.~nisrepresented in london in the dis
patches sent out a revolution is very
Imminent and the overthrow OF the
present dynasty is probably close at
hand. Various dispatches seem 10
give this assurance. All the indica-
2ions seem to point in that direction,
and the rumor hat there is talk in
Madrid of the resignation Of the Queen
giegent, mother of the young heir AL
fcnso, certainly gives credence to the
report of a speedy collapse Of the
Spanish regency by revolution. The
army is known to be partially disloyal,
and it is the one, sole prop Of the dy-
nasty, which is based in it's rights TO
govern by a descent from the AUS
Erian Woman" Of history. The Car
lists followers of Don Carlos.) are
showing much activity. They are the
~outs'' now, and their only hope of
promotion and provender is based on
"a successful revolt by which the long
seeking Don will come into power and
dispense the gifts of the crown TO
needy and hungry adherents.
1T is the belief both at Vienna and
Brussels, where the pretended Carlos is
staying, tina a revolution is just ahead
and that Alfonso will never become
King of Spain. A military Dictator
ship was strongly talked in the Span
fsh cortes, and Marshal Campos, who
was head man in Cuba until Weyler
x1 \, vr;11 Uha tho 1na6nY Trnnnc a re
under arms ready for use. Great des-
~pondency exists at Vienna. Austria
has been united all along with Spain
fn close ties of sympathy and inter-
ests, and in the past emperors ruled
both Austria and Spain.
Spain is .putting on the best showing
ct can, but it is an effort mainly to
save herself from overwhelming defeat
by seeking to arous the sympathy and
nelp of foreign powers. The Washing
ton Post says: 1T is obvious that the
Madrid authorities are suspicious of
England, and seeking to convince Rus
STA, Germany, France, and Austria
that the proposed seizur Of the Phil
Eppines means virtually a conquest in
which Great Britain is primarily inter-
ested. The policy of the United States
will be to hold the islands, once they
are occupied by our forces, until the
war ends, and then MAKE whatever
disposition of the possessions that may
De most advantageous to US in recoup-
ing the losses involved in the conflict.
In any event, however, a cOaling sta
ton will be reserved by the United
States"
The Spanish press is very wrathy
and roundly curse out the government
as also the cortes is engaged in. 1t is
declared that Spain is not yet ready
for war. 1t is said that the ministry
studiously conceals important facts.
One editor in the cortes was so worked
sp he declared it was better to aban-
dor Cuba than to fight the United
States when u~nprepare1. The censor
: ship of the press is very strict. a
fierce civil war threatens Spain is very.
plainly IN sight. Only European in
4egwention for peace or a splendid
Spanish victory at sea car save the
throne from orumbling to pieces. 1t
looks really now as if the Avenging
Nemesis of the ancients was now on
the trail of the Spanish brutes n
scoundrels who assassinated 266 AM
prican sailors in the harbor of Havana
in a time of profound peace. If that
city should be bombarded it will add
to the signal character of the punish
ment for basest treachery n coward
ice. Remember the Maine!" The
Baltimore Herald in pointing to the
providentiaI r~etribution of justice says
with something approaching e%loquence
of i~ndignation:
"No fouler offence was ever COM
united by one nation against another.
The punishment will be ineXorable.
The first count of the sentence has al
ready been executed by the annihila-
4ion of a fleet and the capture Of an
important possession. Cuba must fol-
low, and so will Porto Rico, and the
Spanish fleets will he swept from the
seas. The Spaniards, with theft
boasted pride" and their Wanted
s4honor.' will be humbled to the earth.
There will be an eye for an eye and a
%ooth for a tooth, and the Maine will
be avenged. There is an all-wise
providence. which riders these things.
Spain is answering at the bar for her
cruelties, her expressions, her bloody
crimes. Nemesis is upon her trail!"
The old famous lines in the Greek
aDracula Sibyllina are now as
vwhen first written. These lines appear
in Herbert's "Jacula Prudentum." The
German poet Baron Won Logan EN-
Ralmed or embodied them in immortal
verse. New England's Longfellow has
translated them, many thinking them
original. His version is we'll known:
although the mills of God grind slow
iy, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He staIus wait
ing, with exactness He grinds ALL.
In the Greek it is 1.-The mills OF the
Gods, &c, Spain must answer for her