Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-30
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 30. 1853.


The Mexican queS ton seems to be anything
Unsettled Its probable that the Monroe doc
trine" will have net only the American people
behind it for support, but the MeXicans also.
The "EsDre' is not so popular that universal
suffrage would establish it even as firmly as it
did Louis Napoleon's throne after the coup
d'etat, The Mexican minister of state, An
tonic lie la Fuente, has addressed a note to
the friendly powers, denouncing the French
attempt to force monarchy upon the people.
He also denounces the party, who, by false
hood, misrepresentation, and deceit, have
brought forward this ''humane scheme to give
the distracted country good and permanent
government" and he declares it to be the in
flexible determination Of the Mexican people
to resist all aggressions on their rights, and to
take the government into their own hands,
He considers that as yet but very small
part of the Mexican territory has been con-
quered, and is confident that the outrages and
robberes that have been committed will keep
alive the luminosity and indignation of the
people, and the half-snothered feeling will at
last burst forth with fury and visit due pun
ishment on their oppressors This communi
cation to the nations is accompanied by
protest to the same effect from the National
Congress. With this feeling so rife among
the people he is asked to govern, it is no won
der that the Archduke Macmillan hesitates
to accept the brilliant bauble of a crown, for,
wearing it, his head might not only chance
''to lie uneasy" but he might even carry 1t
beneath his shoulders, as Herodotus affirms
his ancestors did, in those northern regions
where no man could penetrate on account of
the feathers that constantly filled the air
To revel in the "dals of the Monlezumas'
sounds very attractive, but with the Damocle-
tian sword suspended over ones head, even
an Austrian archduke might hesitate to accept
the seat with SO shining though dangerous an
ornament above it. A letter from Vienna
positively atfirms that Macmillan has not ac-
cepted the offered crown, and though person
BILLY disposed to do so, as the Austrian govern
ment treats the affair as purely private, there
is one condition without which he would hard
ly venture to accept 1t. The letter goes on
to say that
''France appears disposed to consent to that
condition, but England, who shows herself
more than indifferent TO the archduke's candi-
dature, refuses to grant even moral guaran-.
tee to the new empire. Hence dOubts~51rd
hesitations, which are increased by-1r6e almost
hostile attitudes OF the whQle-A,rm crican CONT
ffs4 against the establishment of monarchy
in the mS@s- Ut 50 many republics"
Already the young aspirant to the crown
must feel somewhat of the carking cares of
empire. The curse of a republican president
besets the Hapsburg emperor, and eager APP
his favor. The annoyance numbering the first
step to the purple, one would think, might
somewhat damp the ardor of the embryo king
1t will be seen by the following account how
great that annoyance must be-
''It it be really true that the Archduke
Macmillan has decided upon accepting thu
throne of Mexico, he will not require the pro-
lection of the French troops. as he may or
ganize a powerful army simply with the crowd
OF place-hunters eager for appointment in the
new empire. Our Vienna correspondent
writes that thousands of such applications have
already been made. Letters are daily arriv-
ing from all parts Of the world at the residence
OF the future emperor, in such numbers that it
would require q fleet to convey to Mexico all
the parties who prof1er their services. 1t is
now easy to under, tand why many journals
in Austria and elsewhere so pressIngly recon-
mend the Archduke to venture on this distant
undertaking."