This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...on the battle of Vicalvaro, was being rapidly forgotten. O'Donnell was far from rancorous. Nobody was punished for having taken up arms against him; the amnesty speedily proclaimed was a real one, and not, as was often the case. a proscription of persons excluded by name from its provisions. O'Donnell hoped to share ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...on the battle of Vicalvaro, was being rapidly forgotten. O'Donnell was far from rancorous. Nobody was punished for having taken up arms against him; the amnesty speedily proclaimed was a real one, and not, as was often the case. a proscription of persons excluded by name from its provisions. O'Donnell hoped to share his power in amity with the Palace; he wished to appear to the Queen as her rescuer from Radicals and atheists, and to the people as their saviour from San Luis and his fantastic absolutism. The people, short of money and cynically sceptical of politicians, allowed him to hold power and to keep the peace for five years; but the Queen had not forgotten. As Fernando Garrido, the reformer, put it: "O'Donnell attained power by revolution, violence made the Queen accept him; when he tore the arms from the hands of the revolution he himself was left defenceless." CHAPTER X. O'DONNELL AND NARVAEZ. (1856--1858.) Rios Rosas, the new Minister of the Interior, was the working politician of O'Donnell's ministry. A Liberal, but a Liberal of a very different type from his predecessor Escosura, he immediately dissolved the Provincial and Municipal Councils, and modified their constitution so as to check their semiindependent power. At the same time he restricted the liberty of the press, and abolished the national militia throughout the kingdom. The preamble to the decree enforcing this most necessary reform demonstrated--as, indeed, it was easy to demonstrate--that this turbulent force had ever been a source of weakness, danger, and disorder. On September 2 followed the dissolution of the Constituent Cortes, to which, as Rios Rosas scathingly remarked, "Heaven denied the gifts of wisdom and moderation." Their principal work, the Constituti...
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