Back to Spain he was made a Knight of the Order of Calatrava in 1863 and devoted himself fully to the defense of traditionalist ideology both through the press and through political actions.

[1] He was elected a deputy for Santander in 1867 as a member of the traditionalist faction led by Cándido Nocedal at the Spanish Congress, becoming one of its most vocal representatives.

In 1872 he presided the Cantabrian war board, organized the local recruitment and managed to rise two infantry battalions, a cavalry squad and two compañías that intervened in various military actions in La Montaña and the Basque Country.

[2] Once the civil war had ended he went into exile in France in 1876, where he lived until the indult that allowed banished Carlists to return to Spain.

[2] After the traditionalist schism he joined the Integrist Party, helping Ramón Nocedal with the organization of the new movement and leading many press campaigns aimed at promoting Integralism in Spain.