Espartero has announced that he resigns his post as President
of the Council of Ministers, and his position as Dictator, if ever he could be so called, of the Spanish people. Consistently with his disposition, we think that he is right. He has not the will, per- haps not the fiercer passions, which are necessary to animate a man in such an office as that which he might have filled. He lacks the personal love of success and stern resentment of opposition proper to the general in the field, and perhaps feels more with the judge sitting on the bench of calm justice ; but the Dictator, who is both judge and general, while he possesses the sagacity of the one,
should feel the impulse of the other. Espartero is an upright man and a gentleman ; he seems to want the love of power without Which there can be but little grasp of power. By withdrawing, he removes checks upon the ootact of faction ; and Spain will become the booty of that which is the strongest or the wiliest.
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