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Updated: May 10, 2025
Carlism, the party of the Church against the nation, came into existence when, during the first years of Cristina's Regency, Mendizábal, the patriotic merchant of Cadiz and London, then First Minister of the Crown, carried out the dismemberment of the religious orders, and the diversion of their enormous wealth to the use of the nation.
She listened to descriptions of Cadiz, Malaga, Seville, Granada. Her curiosity was chiefly for detailed accounts of Catalonia and the Pyrenees. 'Hardly the place for you; there's a perpetual heaving of Carlism in those mountains; your own are quieter for travellers, he remarked; and for a moment her lips moved to some likeness of a smile; a dimple in a flowing thought.
Having met a nobleman distinguished for his services to Carlism, I put it to him bluntly, "Would Don Carlos on the throne mean a relapse into religious bigotry?" He answered me with candour, "I am a Roman Catholic, and if I thought so I should be the last man to lend a penny to his cause."
The government expatriate reactionary bishops without so much as a murmur from the people against these strokes of severity; many priests, enlisted under the banner of Carlism, have been taken by the troops, and shot as common culprits, without a single voice having been raised in their defence.
There was no anger against him, he noticed, in her face, but on the contrary a great friendliness and pity. But he knew her at that moment. Her looks might soften, but not her resolve. She was heart-whole a Carlist. Carlism was her creed, and her creed would be more than a creed, it would be a passion too.
On the Wing Ordered to the Carlist Headquarters Another Petit Paris Carlists from Cork How Leader was Wounded Beating-up for an Anglo-Irish Legion Pontifical Zouaves A Bad Lot Oddities of Carlism Santa Cruz Again Running a Cargo On Board a Carlist Privateer A Descendant of Kings "Oh, for an Armstrong Twenty-Four Pounder!"
This was the famous Basque chieftain Zumalacarregui, the renowned "Uncle Tomas" of the Carlists, whose brilliant career alone breaks the dull monotony of Spanish history in the nineteenth century, and who would in all probability have placed Don Carlos on the throne but for his death from a mortal wound in 1835. Since then Carlism has struggled on with little hope of success.
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