The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-22 00:00:00

to rule a distracted nation by what he fully be-
lieved to be the unanimous voice of the people. In
the arduous task he undertook, he could have anti-
cipated little pleasure; but he hoped to be a power-
ful instrument in the regeneration of a nation. To
call a man so placed, and thus invited by the
genuine sentiment of the people a Fillibuster, and
to class him with WALKER or SANTA ANNA, is a
mere transparent attempt to delude. Estab-
lished on the throne his first duty was to suppress
brigandage, the curse of Mexico ; and when the war
ceased, and the country in parts, was merely dis-
tracted by gangs of the most inhuman ruffians,
who robbed, outraged, and murdered the peaceful
inhabitants, his lieutenants found it necessary to
execute these monsters, and, very properly, in this
MAXIMILIAN concurred. JUAREZ was a fugitive in
El Paso, on American soil, and it was then that
MAXIMILIAN, Oct. 3, 1865, published his decree
against brigands, for which he has been so con-
demned. That the nature of that decree may be
known, we give elsewhere the address by which
it was prefaced. MAXIMILIAN for three years
ruled as EMPEROR, and as such was recog-
nised by every great nation, except the United
States. To place a Monarch so established, whose
career was stained by few spots, and whose last
acts were almost sublime, with the mercenary
ruffians executed by his generals, is an equally
transparent attempt to delude. At the same time
we allow that in the general distraction there may
not have been that careful discrimination among his
commanders that justice demanded, in executing the
men taken in arms. This is the blot that adheres
to MAXIMILIAN'S escutcheon, though it is well known
in Mexico that to his personal interference many of
the condemned owe their lives. There is, however,
a manifest difference between an established ruler
upholding his Empire and the attempts of insur-
gents to overthrow a settled Government. JUAREZ,
for instance, would have been justified, had he taken
SANTA ANNA fairly, in his effort to renew the civil
war, in the execution of his captive. But no such
justification could be advanced in MAXIMILIAN'S
case. The second plea, therefore, is as untenable
as the first. The only excuse JUAREZ could urge
was that the safety of the country demanded the
execution, and he is deprived of even this frail
ground by the Minister of Prussia. We have no
hesitation in stating that this is one of the most
causeless and foolish murders ever perpetrated to
gratify the venom of the most senseless spite and
revenge.

Politically considered, it was the most fortu-
nate occurrence for the Anglo-Saxon race in
America. While we uphold the nobility of
MAXIMILIAN, and wholly condemn the foul crime
of which he was the victim, we see in the event the
more rapid approach of the period when our race
will possess and rule the entire Continent of North
America. The establishment of this noble Prince
as Emperor on a portion of that continent would
have been a heavy blow both to Republicanism and
to the MONROE doctrine. It was attempted as a
counterpoise by the Latin to the overwhelming
weight of the Anglo-Saxon race, and it has but suc-
ceeded in establishing two facts. First, that such
a counterpoise cannot be created, and that it 13
impossible successfully, to violate the MONROE doc-
trine. Second, that the intervention to secure a
civilised Government in Mexico is a necessity,
the people being wholly unfit to rule themselves,
and that the paramount obligation has arisen for
the Government at Washington forcibly to interfere
for the protection of the lives and property of the
people dwelling over their border from the brigand°
who have now obtained absolute control. It is to
SHERMAN or to SHERIDAN that the task should be con-
fided of civilising Mexico. Men of hard hands and
capacious minds, generous in their instincts, but
unsparing in their resolutions—moderate in wing
absolute power, while applying all their means W
obtain the ends striven for. It will be a blessed
day for Mexico when such a commander is firmly
established in the capital, but it is not improbable
that the wretched country will have to pass through
a saturnalia of crime, before this desirable end 1°
achieved.—Anglo-American Times.