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Show WHQ VANTSATHRONE I Quo of tuo mo5t pi'iaUe spectacles of the axe is to see the once niighty kinvdnu of Spain b-j:;:ing a ruler n n:on if t' e nincompoops of .-o called rv al families in Kuri.pe. Heartily tired ot t ho lecherous, desporicu b -inclined and besotted Bourbons., and par ticularly wii 11 tliat very nice specimen of femininity, cx-qaeen Isabella, oni - ivonid have, thought that af'ior having diiv'en her away and turned the cold idirmider to the taco, the Spaniards w.uld hive had manhood enough to rule thein.-clves. But they proc aim their servility to the world and beg and hunt for ruler of any kind, so I e can only claim di-s. ent from some noted robber who managed a few general inns azo to force him-clf into sovereign piwer and compel the service of probably prob-ably better but weaker men. Very likely the fout-o ii'-w pursued by the Spau- lards will seem nothing strange to most l'Jiirop.'ans, who have the traditional tradi-tional reverence for monarchies that a belief in tho ''divinity which doth liedjra round a king" is sure to create. But how free Americans can have any sympathy with a (joverntnent and people peo-ple that so openly and unblushiny avow their own shame and servile disposition dis-position is beyond comprehension. They sav to all the world that neither a Spaniard L.or Spaniards can rule Spain; that they must have some painted mockery of a man, some useless thing dressed up in the lood and sweat of the millions of Spanish slaves trans muted into rich robes, gold and rii i mouds, before which they can fall down and do obei.-ance; and that this semi deity iim-t be a member of some fanii'y whose head holds the same posiiiui towards some other self-enslaved self-enslaved country. If the Spaniards had deci.ed that a monarchy was the form of government that suited thein best, and had chosen the fittest man they could find in Spain to fill the throne and wield the sceptre, they would have been entitled to respect; but this th'ng of hawking a people's disgrace over Europe, and having the crown rejected by one after another of its royal families, is wa lowing in the very mire of abasement. And these1 are the people that hold Cuba in bonds; that talk of manumitting slaves, while themselves are self proclaimed and voluntary slaves; that boast of prido while presenting the most abject spectacle they can do. Tho only re deeming features in the whole affairs of Spain since Isabella, held riotous carnival in Madrid, have been her expulsion ex-pulsion and the futile efforts of the Spanish republicans to assert their rhdit to free government. These servile, ser-vile, abject monarchists, with Piim Serrano and the rest of the old blue V'looded hidaigos, who want to lick the dust before the feet of royalty and see no sunlight but that which glances from its eyes, are neither worthy the icspcct of free Americans nor should be treated as the eifials of an independent inde-pendent and liberty-loving people. |