The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-08
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
Maximilian's Failure and NapO-
Icons Disappointment.

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From the london Times, October I'll Prs
We cannot we confess. in the present
straits to which royalty Is reduced ia 50
many quarters, find Il in our hearts to pity
the sovereigns who are brought to the
necessity of turning their backs on the
vanitics of their exalted estate. A crown
in our days Is often better lost than found,
and MaXimilian of Austria win certainly
find In his Archducal competence at Mira
mar q contentment which he could never
have enjoyed In the midst of the alarms
and anXieties besetting him In the halls of
Montezuma. Had even the habitual exer-
cises of power rendered life of leisure
distasteitll to him, there will always be
work enough for him In his brothers. dis
tracted estate to call forth that temperate
Judgment that calm energy, aud that con-
ciliating address for which MaximiliaH left
behind him so good character, among the
most hOpelessly disaflected subjects OF the
Austrian Empire. Had he stiil as much
heart for the land of his fathers as he was
always known to have. his return to Aus
tria could not take place at a more mo-
mentous juncture than the present, nor
could the New World open before him as
noble a mission as he may have chance of
fulfilling at home. 4e. le
If there Is amy man who should be con-
dOled with on account of the final upshot
of this sorry Mexican business, IL Is not
MaXimilian; it is that other Emperor out
of whose brain the idea of Transatlantic
Empire sprung, like Minerva from the head
of Jupiter, full grown and armed to the
teeth, and who, In the consciousness of Ills
failure, has not even the meagre consola-
ton of sharing the blame with his advisers
or abettors. The subjugation of Mexico
was the Emperor Napoeon's own scheme,
and 1t rested on two very natural, but, as
events proved. very decided mistakes
one of which was his firm belief in the ir-
reconcilable schsm in the American Union.
the other aconviction that internal quiet
in Franco was not to be secured without
the diversion of some great foreign enter
prise. In both of these errors Napoleon
had mt the time the concurrence of nine
y-nine out of hundred thinkers in
Europe. Only it believes man i'm his
station to soar with his views above the
ken of millions, and it is remarkable above
all things, that lie, of all men, who had
done so much toward tanning the eXubernnt
warlikc spirits of his Frenchmen, and by
the development of public prosperity Civ
ing rise to commercial tendenCies-lc who
had seen how reluctantly his army Lad
followed him across the Alps in his war fpr
and idea. should now have deemed it neces-
sary to embark the same people on an in
linitely more arduous and hazardous under
taking-an undertaking from which, under
the most favorable auspices, no practically
good results coull be expected. However,
it L. much easier to fall into an error even
of 81 great magnitude as the building up
OF Mexican Empire. than to have the
courage aud macnanimity to acknowledge
il by backing out of it with silent resig-
uation. aud it is IN all probability ON ret
rngrude errand of that nature that General
Castclneau lately embarked for Vera Cruz.