New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-15
Atlu Orleans Datlg Grestent,


nm SEW ARD ASKS EXPLANATIONS OF FRANcE-THE
III FRENCH GOVERNMENT DECLINES TO BE REsroN-
% s1BrE FOE HIN Or his AGTs--hR. BiGELow AD-
8& yIsED TO GO TO JuAREZ WITH HIS COMPLAINTS.
s Under the above caption we find, in the Mobile
Register, some interesting intelligence, which we
lay before cur readers: :.
s In reply to resolution of the Senate, the Presi-
dent has furnished q lengthy diplomatic cores
pondence on the subject Of Maximian's decree Of
1ctober 3D. ordering bandits found in arms against
III government to be shot without trial, etc. rhe
correspondence throws some new light on the re-
Z latiops OF the three parties.
IA Mr. Romero, the minister of the Mexican Re-
bubble at Washington, calls Mr.. Stewards atten-
lion to this decree in note denouncing it as a
savage violation of the rules Of war and citing
the cases Of two Generals and four Colonies,
WHO were shot under it.
#g II further appears from the documents that on
the 18th of October Charge d'Ahairs Corwin in
fforued Mr.. Seward that it had been reported at
sthe city of Mexico for the three preceding
days, and generally believed, that on the 2lst of
Athat month Generals Ortega and Salazar and the
Flour scolonels were shot at UruXuan but that no
skicia report Of the execution had been published.
IL Mr.. Corwn also refers to the first article of the
adecrec showing that all those belonging to the
sarmios fighting for the republican government will
#be shot if taken prisoners by the imperial troops
a Mr. Seward, on the Sd of November, addressed
Ma letter to our Minister at Paris, saying
y lam directed by the President to request you
'%to ask the serious attention of the French govern
#ment to the military proceedings in Mexico, by
(which native Mexicans, taken captive while
Zadherng in war to their own republican govern
Nment, denied rights which the laws Of nations
vi Invariably accords to prisoners of war"
" And on the 18th Of the same month Mr. Seward
~ addressed another letter to Mr.. Bgelow saying
Id ''With reference to my dispatch OF the Sd instant,
5$it is now my painful duty to acquant you that in
sformaton has been received from the minister of
the republican government in Mexico accredited
to this government, to the effect that the sanguin-
AIRY policy referred to in the above named dispatch
n has actually been inaugurated by the execution Of
stseveral distinguished officers of the liberal forces
III who had been surprised and captured by the I'm
4 perialists in the town of Santa Anna Amatlan-
d namely, Generals Ortega and Saazar, and Colo
sAnels Diaz, Paracho, Villa, Gomez, Perez, Mele-
punia and Fillanos, five lieutenant c0onels eight
Ulcers
.8 1t deVuives upon me to instruct you again to
Call the serious attention of the Imperial govern
ment to this subject and to inform NJ. Dr0uyn de
VI Hugs thatthese reports have been received with
4 the most concern by the government Of the United
sEStates. If, upon investigation, these reports
prove true, as there is too strong ground for be-
l6uieving that they are well founded, we cannot
fer ourselves 10 doubt that 10 far as tie govern.
N ment of France is concerned;ft can never counte-
Il nance proceedings which are so repugnant to the
III sentiments Of modem civilization and the instincts
y Of humanity
a Mr.. Bigelow, under date of Paris, November 30,
IA 1866, writes to Mr.. Seward as follows:
III 'NSHt-He IN. DroUyn de L'Huys) here referred
10 the representations had made in regard to the
shooting of the Mexican prisoners taken i'll war,
aS and also to the case of Madame de Iturbide Why
n he said, do you not 60 to President Juarez? We
are not the Government of Mexico, and you do Us
too much honor to trust us as such. We had to go
to Mexico with an army to secure certain i'm
pOrtant interests: but we not responsible for
Macmillan Or his government He is accountable
to you, as to any other government, if he violates
its rights, and you have the same remedies there
HI that we had
Mr.. Seward under date of December 10, in
forms Mr. Romero that the latters dispatch and
its Accomplishments, for which he tenders his
thanks, have received the consideration to which
n they justly entitled by this government.