While always known as a Carlist royalist, pragmatic absolutist and a faithful Catholic, not much else could be said about the political views of the Duke of Alba on other issues. Unilke his boorish brother, he was usually calm and reserved, not willing to share his opinions with each Juan or Juana. However, after his lifelong goal, the restoration of the legitimate King and creation of a truly empowered and benevolent Monarchy was achieved, this statesman could attend to other issues as well, diversifying his political activities. Therefore, he expressed his support for Los Conquistas ideals, while stating that the return of the core Spanish lands should become a gradual process connected with the strengthening of the Realm and appropriate diplomatic and political conditions. The following article, published in "Español el Mundo", a state-owned subsidiary journal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was his reaction to the debates on Spanish colonialism.
THE DREAM OF THE EMPIRE
It is quite clear to any person of reason and patriotism that the loss of the overseas possession has damaged the might of the Spanish state greatly. Their vast population, their precious metals and plantations have always constituted a part of the greatness of our Realm, establishing our important role among other leading countries of the civilized world. However, the idea of Spanish empire is not limited to mercantilist approaches, but has a much higher and sacrosanct essence, which is often forgotten by the liberals and their fellow travelers.
For there is no doubt that the creation of the Spanish Empire in Americas is the consequence of the Divine Will itself and its destruction is a blasphemous act that could only lead to suffering, both corporeal and spiritual, of the inhabitants of the viceroyalties
We all know quite well that just a few hundred years ago the so called «civilized republics» in South America, which are now patronized by the canny politicians of Washington, did not exist at all. The lands that now have now been declared to be these so-called states were nothing but Hell on earth, a creature of the Ape of the Lord, Satan. Inhabited by poor, brutal and ignorant savages, who executed most vile and bloody rituals, tortured and were tortured, practiced sodomy and all forms of perversions, the said countries were one big ball of pain, slavery, tyranny and insult to the laws set by God, established as if to mock Him and His will and to demonstrate that His authority is not absolute in this world
It is only natural that no Christian conscience could tolerate such abomination and could not leave the souls of millions of people to be destroyed. For when one enters the Gates of Hell and does not raise the sword of righteousness to correct the wrongs and save the oppressed , he becomes a collaborator of the Lucifer.
Such mission has, by divine mandate, fallen to the shoulders of a Spaniard, who fulfilled it with devotion and humility typical for our race. Our Most Catholic Monarchs have since the times immemorial been the most loyal and unflinching defenders of the True Church, We have taken the lands of the Christ from the Moslems, we have not fallen to the seductions of the Protestant heresies or godless secularism, but remained true disciples of the most merciful of religions. Is is only appropriate that the hard and tiring work of granting liberty and order to the people of Americas could be done only by such a nation, devoted to Our Saviour beyond measure.
As result of this, we see quite a unique event – what has been called the Spanish colonialism (and which was really a holy crusade) was directly blessed by the Gods institutions on earth, for the Papal Bulls «Inter caetera» and «Dudum siquidemhas» granted the lordship of the Indies to the Castillian Kings for the time being.
The story of the conquest of the Americas itself quite clearly illustrates that it could not have happened without the Divine Will. We do know, for example, that Azteks themselves witnessed many omens that demonstrate that this event was predestined, such as fire consuming the temple of Huitzilopochtli and a lightning bolt destroying the straw temple of Xiuhtecu. The war in Mexico itself was a wonder of all wonders, for a small group of valiant warriors of the Cross, led by the noble adventurer, Hernan Cortes, managed to bring down the greatest of pagan empires. The liberals today like to say that the conquistadors came for gold and that they oppressed the poor people of Mexico. However, they forget or ignore the truth. Hernan Cortes came to the land where children were raped and decapitated during rituals, where people were killed in Flower Wars just to please the demons with the smell of their corpses, where the servants of Devil torn out human hears and thrown them on bloody altars. The Conquistadors acted like a weapon of God, punishing the guilty and helping the sinful to change their ways
During the years that have come the Indies have evolved greatly – through long and tiring work for the good of the native folk. Everything that now exists there – literacy, governmental institutions, courts, schools the civilized approach to life that has substituted the beastly one, were created through Spanish labor, Spanish culture, Spanish officials and Spanish investments. These that talk of oppression forget that, for example, the Kings have deliberately appointed «defenders of Indians», that religious orders, such as Jesuits, have done much to assist the locals both spiritually and materially, that the Crown has been most generous towards the local elites integrating them into Spanish nobility. As result, it is a general knowledge that the people of the Indies are now Spanish – in culture, language, faith and, to big extent, in blood.
The revolutions that have happened here were not the consequence of Spanish tyranny or the true interests of the people - it was an act of the local power-hungry tycoons, who, receiving everything they had due to Spanish service and Spanish ancestry, have chosen the times of disorders to break away from their fatherland. Currently we see that the republics of South America are not much better than the pagan kingdoms of old – they are overcome by corruption, civil warfare, poverty and sedition. In Mexico we saw an ambitious general, following the example of Napoleon, declaring himself emperor, only to be shot - and his successors fighting for the presidential chair, disregarding the democratic procedures they declare to love so much. In Peru we saw a masonic cabal led by San-Martin forsaking all principles a Christian nation should be based upon – and the same infighting of caudillos and warlords wishing to occupy the top office. In Venezuela we saw the military anarchy of Bolivar and in Argentina the radical banditry of Moreno. Is this what the people of Americas need? Would this make them more prosperous, educated, would it, what is most important, assist them to obtain a place within the Kingdom of Heaven? Nay, we see only degradation awaiting them, unless the benevolent authority of the Spanish Crown would be restored in these territories.
It is clear that for the good of Spain, a good of the Indies and the good of the Faith and civilization, the Spanish Empire, which is both our property, legacy and our mission, should be restored. And it is clear that that the time for that would come soon – for Spain is now ruled by a heroic King, a King who unites in himself all values that have held the Empire together for hundreds of years. Is it coincidental that His Catholic Majesty bears the same name and numerical as his great predecessor, the King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, under whom New Spain and Peru were liberated? Is it coincidental that we are currently led by one of the few Monarchs who had the courage to oppose the cruel Corsican dwarf and refused to renounce his holy rights to the Throne? Or is not amazing that we live under a Monarch who managed to win a war against the usurpers, while they had four times as many troops? We do now live at the age of wonders, the age of national resurrection. And Spaniards, the nation of warriors, travelers, poets and preachers, feel that.
The Spaniard now sleeps and sees the Empire in his dreams. The Empire is in his gaze, his breath, his blood, in the beat of his heart. One day he would wake up – and the Empire would be restored in its glory and the sun would again never set in Spanish dominions.
For the Empire is not just the territorial entity, but a materialized ideal that would always exist within the Spanish spirit until our nation functions and while at least one Spaniard walks the earth..
THE DREAM OF THE EMPIRE
For there is no doubt that the creation of the Spanish Empire in Americas is the consequence of the Divine Will itself and its destruction is a blasphemous act that could only lead to suffering, both corporeal and spiritual, of the inhabitants of the viceroyalties
We all know quite well that just a few hundred years ago the so called «civilized republics» in South America, which are now patronized by the canny politicians of Washington, did not exist at all. The lands that now have now been declared to be these so-called states were nothing but Hell on earth, a creature of the Ape of the Lord, Satan. Inhabited by poor, brutal and ignorant savages, who executed most vile and bloody rituals, tortured and were tortured, practiced sodomy and all forms of perversions, the said countries were one big ball of pain, slavery, tyranny and insult to the laws set by God, established as if to mock Him and His will and to demonstrate that His authority is not absolute in this world
It is only natural that no Christian conscience could tolerate such abomination and could not leave the souls of millions of people to be destroyed. For when one enters the Gates of Hell and does not raise the sword of righteousness to correct the wrongs and save the oppressed , he becomes a collaborator of the Lucifer.
Such mission has, by divine mandate, fallen to the shoulders of a Spaniard, who fulfilled it with devotion and humility typical for our race. Our Most Catholic Monarchs have since the times immemorial been the most loyal and unflinching defenders of the True Church, We have taken the lands of the Christ from the Moslems, we have not fallen to the seductions of the Protestant heresies or godless secularism, but remained true disciples of the most merciful of religions. Is is only appropriate that the hard and tiring work of granting liberty and order to the people of Americas could be done only by such a nation, devoted to Our Saviour beyond measure.
As result of this, we see quite a unique event – what has been called the Spanish colonialism (and which was really a holy crusade) was directly blessed by the Gods institutions on earth, for the Papal Bulls «Inter caetera» and «Dudum siquidemhas» granted the lordship of the Indies to the Castillian Kings for the time being.
The story of the conquest of the Americas itself quite clearly illustrates that it could not have happened without the Divine Will. We do know, for example, that Azteks themselves witnessed many omens that demonstrate that this event was predestined, such as fire consuming the temple of Huitzilopochtli and a lightning bolt destroying the straw temple of Xiuhtecu. The war in Mexico itself was a wonder of all wonders, for a small group of valiant warriors of the Cross, led by the noble adventurer, Hernan Cortes, managed to bring down the greatest of pagan empires. The liberals today like to say that the conquistadors came for gold and that they oppressed the poor people of Mexico. However, they forget or ignore the truth. Hernan Cortes came to the land where children were raped and decapitated during rituals, where people were killed in Flower Wars just to please the demons with the smell of their corpses, where the servants of Devil torn out human hears and thrown them on bloody altars. The Conquistadors acted like a weapon of God, punishing the guilty and helping the sinful to change their ways
During the years that have come the Indies have evolved greatly – through long and tiring work for the good of the native folk. Everything that now exists there – literacy, governmental institutions, courts, schools the civilized approach to life that has substituted the beastly one, were created through Spanish labor, Spanish culture, Spanish officials and Spanish investments. These that talk of oppression forget that, for example, the Kings have deliberately appointed «defenders of Indians», that religious orders, such as Jesuits, have done much to assist the locals both spiritually and materially, that the Crown has been most generous towards the local elites integrating them into Spanish nobility. As result, it is a general knowledge that the people of the Indies are now Spanish – in culture, language, faith and, to big extent, in blood.
The revolutions that have happened here were not the consequence of Spanish tyranny or the true interests of the people - it was an act of the local power-hungry tycoons, who, receiving everything they had due to Spanish service and Spanish ancestry, have chosen the times of disorders to break away from their fatherland. Currently we see that the republics of South America are not much better than the pagan kingdoms of old – they are overcome by corruption, civil warfare, poverty and sedition. In Mexico we saw an ambitious general, following the example of Napoleon, declaring himself emperor, only to be shot - and his successors fighting for the presidential chair, disregarding the democratic procedures they declare to love so much. In Peru we saw a masonic cabal led by San-Martin forsaking all principles a Christian nation should be based upon – and the same infighting of caudillos and warlords wishing to occupy the top office. In Venezuela we saw the military anarchy of Bolivar and in Argentina the radical banditry of Moreno. Is this what the people of Americas need? Would this make them more prosperous, educated, would it, what is most important, assist them to obtain a place within the Kingdom of Heaven? Nay, we see only degradation awaiting them, unless the benevolent authority of the Spanish Crown would be restored in these territories.
It is clear that for the good of Spain, a good of the Indies and the good of the Faith and civilization, the Spanish Empire, which is both our property, legacy and our mission, should be restored. And it is clear that that the time for that would come soon – for Spain is now ruled by a heroic King, a King who unites in himself all values that have held the Empire together for hundreds of years. Is it coincidental that His Catholic Majesty bears the same name and numerical as his great predecessor, the King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, under whom New Spain and Peru were liberated? Is it coincidental that we are currently led by one of the few Monarchs who had the courage to oppose the cruel Corsican dwarf and refused to renounce his holy rights to the Throne? Or is not amazing that we live under a Monarch who managed to win a war against the usurpers, while they had four times as many troops? We do now live at the age of wonders, the age of national resurrection. And Spaniards, the nation of warriors, travelers, poets and preachers, feel that.
The Spaniard now sleeps and sees the Empire in his dreams. The Empire is in his gaze, his breath, his blood, in the beat of his heart. One day he would wake up – and the Empire would be restored in its glory and the sun would again never set in Spanish dominions.
For the Empire is not just the territorial entity, but a materialized ideal that would always exist within the Spanish spirit until our nation functions and while at least one Spaniard walks the earth..
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