New-York tribune., 1867-05-02
pEr1LL4r10N IN MEXLc0.

| We give insertion in another column To a
card from Nh O'Sullivan to Senator Sumner,
! on the condition of affairs in Mexico Mr..
! O'Sulliyan visited Mexico in 1864 was cour-
teously received by Maximilian, succeeded in
obtaining from him certain valuable grants,
the object of his mission; and he very natur-
ally and properly expresses his favorable
opinion of the Austrian Prince We will take
Mr. OSullivan's word for it that MaXimilian is
a polite and cultivated gentleman. So were
Bulwer's higlwaymcn of the Paul Clifford
school But that did not make their calling
lawful; and it is with the calling OF
the w0ud-bc Emperor of Mexico that we have
to do, not with his personal character.
What brought him there : The Emperor of
the French as early as July 1862 wrote officially
to Gen FGIcy informing him why he wished
to found 4 regular government III Mexico"
1t was not to recover a paltry debt of few
millions; no one believes that; il was, as with
wonderful candOT he avOwed, to restore to
"the Latin race on the other side of the At
"lantic all its strength and prestige" lie ex-
planned TO the General also that il was not for
the interest of France that the United States
"shOuld take possession of the whole Gulf of
mexico and be the sole dispensers of the
"produce of the New World" TO carry
ont these ideas was Maximians calling
in Mexico. What were the Mexican people about
when Louis Napoleon, in violation of solemn trea-
ties, broke in on their domestic tranquility :
They had just got rid Of the 0ycTshadOwing
temporal power of mSciupulous chuclmcn !;
they had queled a rebellion; they had elected
the Chief Magistrate Of their choice. Every
thing looked we'll Our Minister COrwin wrote
10 Mr.. Seward: "The present Government, so
"Gu from being in danger of failing, ut this
"tnIe is, in my judgment stronger than at
"aDy former period of its existence Ii showed
it's strength. IL was Il year and Il
half after the invaders landed before
thcy reached the City Of Mexico.
Ii was Il raid, on a large scale. The troops
were too numerous and the leader who sent
them Of too high rank, to be called buccaneers.
But they behaved like buccaneers. In May
1863, Gen. Forey issued decree ordering con
Gscation of the real and personal property Of
all citizens of the Republic who bear arms
against the French Intervention, whether in
the regular amy or IN bandeof gueniIIas;'
aud this was strictly carried out During the
same month Forey issued II military order re-
citing that French ZOuave had been killed in
Tlalpan, Il village within sight of the City of
Mexico, upon what prOvocatOn is not stated !:
and commanding, first that fine Of
$1,000 be levied on the inliabitants; second,
that number OF Liberals he imprisoned as
hostages, who, ii another murder occur, shall
"rcspOnd for itwitl their hcads;' third, declar
" ing, if that is moi sufficient he riidge WW be de-
"stroyed." But this was before Macmillan ar
rived. He had been out little more than u
wear in Mexico when, in October, 1860, he pub
lished n fdmal decree signed by himself and
his Cabinet Articles / and ? provide that all
persons found IN arms against the Empire,
whether they proclaim or not any political
principles, and whatever their number, organ-
"ization. or character" shall within twenty -four