Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . friendly to the North in our war, andhe had been also a constitutional President of the Republic,and the General was anxious to do him honor. He con-templated a dinner to Castelar. But Spanish politics arefull of torpedoes, and the General was in some sort a guestof the nation, and it was feared that the dinner might beconstrued into a republican demonstration — an interferencein other peoples affairs — and it was abandoned. What impressed those of the travellers who had pre-viously been in Mad
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . friendly to the North in our war, andhe had been also a constitutional President of the Republic,and the General was anxious to do him honor. He con-templated a dinner to Castelar. But Spanish politics arefull of torpedoes, and the General was in some sort a guestof the nation, and it was feared that the dinner might beconstrued into a republican demonstration — an interferencein other peoples affairs — and it was abandoned. What impressed those of the travellers who had pre-viously been in Madrid, were the changes that had takenplace within the last few years. It seemed, says one ofthem, to have become transformed from a Sj^anish into a 452 GRANTS TOUR French town. New stores liad sprung up on the Alcala,and new hotels advised you that they gave meat and enter-tamment in the French fashion. Street railways traversethe narrow highways, and it seemed a desecration, almost,to hear jangling car-bells in the drowsy old alleys alongwhich I used to pad my way to the street of Isabel the. ? PUBLIC SQUARE, ANCIENT MADRID. Catholic, to hear from Sickles or Adee what had happenedto Spain during the night. For poor Spain was then inan interesting condition, and the strangest births were thencoming to light. And when we had nothing else to do,we used to go out and join the people when they went todemonstrate before the public offices, generally before thepalace of the Interior, on the Puerta del Sol, where therewas room to shout and hustle and carry our banners, andwhere, moreover. Pi y Margall was in power. Pi, being afriend of the j^eople, was sure to give us a welcome, andtell us to be patient and we should have bread and work. AROUND THE WORLD. 453 Sometimes we used to go down to the Cortes, and demon-strate in favor of more radical measures and more speed inmaking the Republic, and wait until Castelar and Salmeronand Garrido came out, that we might hail them as friendso
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