The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-11-09
tFrom the New York Post, ~ isdl
The Last Outrage in Mexico,

We trust the Government of the
United States will at once protest, In
the name Of humanity, against the bar
barous aud bloody policy just an
nounccd in an official proclamation by
the Archduko Macmillan in Mexico.
In proclamation dated the Sd Of
October, at the City of Mexico, Maxi.
milan authoriscs and instructs the
assassination Of every prisoner there
after taken by his forces Any Mex
ican soldier captured is to be tried
summarily by the commander of the
troops who capture him, and to be shot
within twenty-four hours; aud this
whether he has made resistance or not.
1t is enough if he belongs to the forces
of Juarez. This is not war-it is
murder. Even Juaroz, the legitimate
ly elected ruler of Mexico. would in
cur the reproachcs of the civilized
world If he should issue such an order;
but how much more scandalous ia it
when a usurper, who maintains him
self only by the help of foreign NOR
cenarics, thus orders the wholesale
murder Of the native soldiers opposed
to him who are fighting for their coun.
try and their homes.
|. Let the nature of this atrocious or
der be fully understood. The COM
mander of any force which captures a
Mexican sodier--or any number of
such-hOs authority to try and to kill
It may be a Lieutenant in command
Of squadron--no matter, he is mas
ter of life and death--or rather he has
power and authority to Kill with the
least possible ceremony. In modern
war such brutal and bloody instruc-
tions are unknown; if a General had
issued them to his troops, he would
be rightly called monster of inhu-
manity; but here we find one who pre-
tends to be an Emperor, making open
proclamatiOn-not merely to the Gen.
erals who command his armies, but to
the lowest Lieutenant aud Sergeant in
his pay. And the troops who are thus
melted to wholesale butchery are mer-
conarics, strangers to the country,
hircing foreigners, the scum of Eu-
ropoau armies and capitols, who have
come across the water to kill at so
much month, and have no interest |
in the cause beyond thoir monthly |
wages.
Our Government will be lacking in
ts duty to humanity if it, does not at
pncc and energctically protest against
such conduct 1t is bad enough to
see Mexican liberty slaughtered be-
fore our eyes at the command ofa for
ign despot; it is bad enough to have
10 stand still and see the French En-
pcror carry out scheme which was
Begun as much as an enterprise against
is as against the Mexican Republic
,ut il is not cndurablc to see the tool
If Napoleon ordering indiscrimiuatc
murder, placing II butcher knife in
he hands of each of his hirelings, and
giving the command to kill all pris-
'ncrs of war.
Maximilian's situation must be des-
,erltc when he finds it necessary to
dopt measure like this The OPP =
position to his usurpation is no doubt :
nconvcnicnt to- him; it has been pro-
ractcd beyond his expectations; and
lis master does not find il so safe now
: three years ago to send an army to :
lcxico. =
But to put stop to the patriotic )
ppostion of the Mexican people by {
,urdcring all who fall prisoners into !
is hands-to make Mexico quiet for {
imsclf by killing its peoplo--this is $
DING little too far, and We trust the '
resident will at once warn this inter {
'ping Archduke that he has made ,
imsclf an intolerablc nuisance. Let I,
i'm "get out of Mexico" with his I
irelings. His master, Napoleon, can \
ot help him. The American people
re patient; out they will not stand by :
nd see wholesale murder and assas- c
nation ordered. any more than they =
i'll suffer fresh army of French mer- s
,naries to be landed on this continent. I
laximilian and Napoleon have now
orkcd in Mexico for three years un- ]
bstructcd-they have only ruined the ,
ountry; its condition is hundred 1
mes worse now than it was when they
cgan; the civilization they promised I,
D grandly to introduce consists of
eonagc, suppression of the liberty of ,
ress and speech, and military dcs-
otism, whose last measure is the as
estimation of prisoners of war. 1t is
ow time to stop.