Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-05
THE LAST mExIcAN MASSACRE.
rom the y. o. Picayune.

From The n. o. Picayune.
The accounts Of the massacre at Puebla
show that sixty-seyen captured Imperial
officers were ahot in cold blood OF these,
tx had the rank Of General, sixty one were
Of inferior grade The Liberals Ia this
case appear 10 have been emulon5 of the
fme of lscobedo, who deliberately ordered
q hundred and tweniy-threc Frenchmen to
lie shot What terrible Judgment j. 10 be
visited upon these Mexican murderers for
deeds more appalling in their savage
frrOciiv than any history has often record
ed, We cannot tell. but this is sure, that
they have Justly earned the execration Of
all mankind. Their half a century Of
revolutions upon revolutions have made the
Mexican people mad, and there ia no tell
ing what alrociiy they NAV not vet com
nit.
IL wa not 10 in former DAYS, aud now il
H. difficult 20 tell whence comes this mur-
derOus spirit and who directs it. ia il
Jusrez the outwardly calm, eonrly be-
neyolent Juarez, whom very many Of our
people have long known only 20 love and
respect Has there been underlying that
placid exterior, throughout 4 long and
honorable life, . stratum Of Indian ferocily
uch as history scarcely records2 We are
10th 10 believe it, and vet we can scarcely
resist the conclusion. .JuarcZ Is the &C
knowledged head OF the Liberal party, and
haa the power, if he would, TO stay this
mnrderous spirit. Nav, il comes to us on
the best authority that Gen. Escohedo him
self personally plead for the lives of the
hundred and twenty-three Frenchmen, but
Jnarez himself ordered that they be shot
Other orders, and especially the refusal to
accept the capitulation Of the Imperialists
at Queretaro on condition that their lives
he spared, shows the same savage, remorse-
less spirit. II is, moreover, highly i'm
probable that Porlirio Diaz would have
taken the responsibility Of putting sixty
seven captured officers Ia death, without
positive general orders from President
Juarez.
We have approached this Subject with
reluctance and cautiously, for in common
with large number Of our people, We have
long had a personal Acquaintance with the
Indian President Of Mexico, and hitherto
believed him 10 be an honor to his race.
We were present At Vera Cruz when the
United States, through Robert NJ. McLane.
then our Minister to Mexico, recognized
him "a the lawful ruler OF that country,
and we have constantly kept ourselves and
onr readers informed Of our relations with
him and his government. These relations
are, at present, Of the most intimate char
aoier and we think il would bewelI for the
United States TO make inquiries into the
atrocities now being committed in Mexico,
and see who il is that ia responsible for
them and IL Al I've In reality Iuarpy If his
Indian nature has gotten the better Of the
humane character he has hitherto borne,
we think they would consult their own
dignity and selErespect by ceasing all cor
respendence with him. Il certainly does
not lool, very we'll, nor is it in the interest
Of humanity and civilization to he ev-
changing diplomatic notes with mnrderer7
and assassins, the assassins of one hundred
and twenty-three Frenchmen and sixty
oeven Mexican officers.