Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-26
The D1exican GsutcIler,y.., ),

The old barbarous instincts which have
ever characterized the emerelysefactional
Mexican leaders in their selfish conflicts
for power and plunder in that unfortunate
country, are still manifest. How the sense
of humanity was shocked years ago
ores, perpetrated impiously in the
name of ''God and liberty" during
the struggle of the Texans to free them
selves, from the disorder and tyranny of
Mexican rule. is remembered with horror
even at this day. 1t was then't the constant
practice to murder in cold blood, shoot by
the score and by the hundred, the prison.
eFs who would be captured in BATTLE ma
tive Mexicans as we'll as others who had
emigrated from the United States and other
parts of the world, and settled in the cOun-
try, and who Joined under a de ttcto Gov
ernment in the struggle for that independ-
ence which was eventually achieved. Fac
tion being fully let l0ose7again in Mexico,
and unpatFietic' but pretentious chiefs in
the field in one interest or the other, under
coyers of the general purpose to. drive out
the French invader, when he is already
formally taking his leave under pressure
from our own Government, the cowardly
and barbaric disposition to murder prison
bers in cold blood has again been INDUCED.
Escobedo, who has been first on the side of
one and then another of the chiefs, claim
ing to represent the Republican causeaonly
as late as the 81 sof March executed one
hundred andtwenty three French aud Ger
man prisoners at San Jarinto. These pris-
.oners had been taken only two days pfeyi-
Gus, in victory over Miramons another
Mexican chief, who, having been somewhat
shifty in his politics also, was, of course
equally as patriotic at least as EscobedO
These executions were on the pretensethat
etle Frenchmen and. Germans had vbluh-
starifv enlisted In the service of Maxinilian
~ G.f Hao Vuh IN
some measure, protect their . belligerenl
rights" had been turned aside from the in
teryentiOn which they wished to impose
This very declaration ex poses the baSeness
of Che act, in that the mere technical1ty Oi
their not being, as Is supposed, longer un-
der the protection of the g foreign flag'
which brought them into. the country, lis
availed of. for their murder when deemed
to be in q defenseless position The hOrriC
nature of their butchery is shown by ar
account in the Rdnchero, which says tha
one by one the prisoners were Shot, anC
each bloody body was left as ibfen for the
next victim in order to look upon. 1t j;
added that but few of the doomed Victims
faltered, and when marched out for exeeu.
ton most of them sang the Marsellaise
hymn. Had the Government of the United
States during our late civil war, or the Con-
-federate de JdctO Government (Which was
recognized by other powers fully to the ex.
tent that we recognize the. Theoretical
Mexican republic). undertaken TO pursue
suehe,a policy as this towards the. large
.numbers of foreigners who tsvoluntafily en-
aisted'' on either side, and were captured
from time to time, there is not civilized
being on the face of the earth who would
not have been shocked at it, and either OF
both parties would have deserved the exc
Grafton Of mankind. The nations of the
world would have reyolted at such aspects
Gle, and it would not have been tolerated
Then it should not be tolerated by our own
or any Government in regard to Mexico al
this time, and it is especially important that
Tepnbll bllcanism should not be blackened and
discredited by the perpetration of suef