The Portland daily press., 1866-01-09
Tuesday Morning, January 9 1866.
Louis Napoleon yields q Point.

AS ~ oPoleOn X1elQS EOlut.
A very interesting and important diplomat
ic correspondence has just been given to the
public. 1t consists OF the various communi-
cations which have passed between our own
government, Signor Romero,l the Mexican
Minister, and the government of the Empe-
ror Napoleon in relation to barbarous order
of Maximilian that all Mexicans taken in
arms against his authority should be summa-
rily shot. Signor Romero, in a note dated Nov
last, called the attention of Mr.. Seward to
this order, and to the fact that under it Gen.
erals Ortega and Salazar, with four subordi-
nate officers, were ON the 21st of October shot,
at Uruquan. On the Sd of November last
Mr.. Seward addressed letter to our Minister
at Paris, in which he says: ...-., l-'
lam directed by the President to request
you to ask the serious attention of the French
Government to the military proceedings in
Mexico, by which native Mexicans, taken cap
tives while adherins in war to their own Re
publican Government, are denied the rights
which the law of nations invariable accords to
prisoners of war. HIa1 q I9la
Three weeks later Mr.. Seward again wrote,
informing Mr.. Bigelow that the sanguinary
policy adopted by the so-called Emperor Max
imilian had been carried out in the execution
of several distinguished officers of the Liberal
forces, and adding: diiiia sii 10 Isil4 ,-f
1t devolyes upon me to instruct you again
to call the serious attention of the Imperial
Government TO this subject, and to inform M.
Drouyn de Lhuys that these reports have
been received with the utmost concern by the
government Of the United States. If upon
investigation they should prove, as there is too
strong ground for believing, that they are well
founded, we cannot suffer ourselves to doubt
chat, SO far as the government of France is
concerned, It can never countenauce proceed
ings which are so repugnant TO the sentiments
OF modern civilization and the Instincts of hui
manity. ~
How the French government received these
inquiries will be gathered from the following
extract from note of Mr.. Digelow to Mr.
Seward, dated Nov. SOth, 1885: n s.7.. tpd
He IN. Drouyn de Lhuys) here referred to
the representation had made In regard to the
shooting of the Mexican prisoners taken In
war, and also to the case Of Madame de Ytur
bide. Why, he said, do you not go to Presi
dent JudrezS We are not the government o.
| Merico, and gou dous too uchhonor to tYus
us as such. We had to go to Mexico with an
army to secure certain important interests, bu
aoe are not responsible for Marimilian or hi,
| government. He is accountable to you as tt
| any other government If he violates its rights
and you have the same remedies there that we
had. t E1r2 fal24 fAaf Aa
1t win be perceived that the Archduke Max
imilian, having got himself into serions dim
Guilty with the government Of the Unitet
States, is virtually thrown over by the Frencl
Emperor. That eminent parsonage decline
to be responsible for the doings of the usurpe
whom his French bayonets forced upon tn
Mexican people. He finds it difficult or un
convenient longer to back up this totterin|
Mexican empire, and accordingly he draws of
washing his hands Of the whole business
This position of his French majesty, though
assumed somewhat late in the day, is one 8
eminently satisfactory to us that we can al
f I'D to rest content with it, and let bygones b
bygones. Except as he was believed to be tn
agent and the pappet ofLouis Napoleon, Maz
imilian never posed either power or prestige
If'he is to lose the support derived from th
prevalence of that impression the days of hi
dynasty are numbered. The sooner he cal
make up his mind to pack up his effects, ant
take himself out of Mexico the better it wi
be for him. His presence there is an insul
and an outrage to every loyal Mexican such q
they will not much longer tolerate.