Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-09
MEXICAN MURDERs-HAxTITLIAS
AND SANTA Anna

in that country, calling itself Liberalism
and perpetratiEg its crimes in the name
Of loyalty 10 Mexico, we repeat the |
opinion expressed in these columns a few
days since, that it is the duty Of every |
civilized government to withdraw all re-
cOgnition Of anything which may call
itself the government Of Mexico, and
place the ban Of outlawry on the mOngrel
herd to whom, for some inscrutable pur-
pose, Providence has abandoned that rich
and beautiful region, and leave them a
prey 10 the spoliation of the successive
adventures and factions that may arise
1 Either that, or let christendOm unite in
delegating some power, we care not from
which hemisphere either, to take hold of
them with a strong hand, and through the
mill Of despotism grind fine and purify
that population into something that
the world can tolerate We are
not monarchists, but there are special
cases which only absolute power seems
fitted to manage, and in regard to Mexico,
we are sick aud Disguised with the cant
about the Monroe doctrine, and the
spread Of republican institutions Not
| one Mexican in ten thousand has any
more appreciation Of well-ordered re-
publican government than baboon in
the African interior has Of the principle
Of the differential calculus It is the
madness Of folly to suppose them capable
to establish such a form of government
/ for themselves 1t is an abuse Of the
gifts Of Heaven to stand quietly by and
permit a portion Of the earth's surface
capable of so high degree of develop
ment, to lie fallow and waste in the nine
teenth century, under the misrule Of such
herd of mongrel and insensate brutes. A..
As a people they are entitled to no inter
national regard or sympathy but as weA
have said, they should be given over to
selfdestruction, or passed under dis
cipline that would make order reign
among them. The fendish doings Of the
| faction of the current month under
Juarez and Escobedo, might well be taken
as the occasion for such action by the f
powers Of the world 1t is no govern,
ment that any Christian people should
recognize. =
As was to be expected, the elligence
of the execution Of the noble and chivat
rous scion of the house of Hapsburg, tn
Prince Macmillan, has produced pro
found sensation in Europe. Among til
people of this country who are not asinir
and loyal enough to believe that Il
attempt to found the empire of Mexid
in his hands, was scheme auxiliary to
secession Of the Southern States from
Union, it is viewed with equal detestatiQ
Some Radical in Congress, on Thursd
last, offered a resolution OF approval
the bloody act, but we trust, thou
American radicalism has many Of
features Of Mexican Liberalism, this
eminent will not disgrace itself by 81
an expression. Our diplomacy in So
whole Mexican affair has been inefficient
and tame apparently without purpose,
and certainly without results that can
reflect credit Let us not add to the
shame that we have already been subject
ed to. Whatever errors Macmillan may
have committed, his killing was an act
Of wanton barbarity, and when his mo-
tives and character come to be contrasted
with those Of his murderers, the judg-
ment of wise and good men viii follow
the present sympathies of those who
mourn the fate Of brave and proud
young man, who, in attempting to crafty
a not unworthy ambition, was sOllcitous
for the good Of the Mexican people and
when deserted by the perGdious.monarch
who tempted him to tread the dazzling
height from which he fell, was yet true to
himself and the line Of the German
Caesars whence he sprung, and under adj
versitys darkest cloud, showed the
brightest qualities of his character. Max
imilian fills an unknown grave in the ac-
cursed country that he went to save and |
hoped to bless, and the beautiful wife
whose name was the last word on his lips
wanders maniac through the desolate
halls on the shores of the Adriatic, but
neither the judgment Of a court martial
Of Mexican banditti calling itself a gov
eminent, nor its endorsement by pur-
blind and prejudiced political party in
this country, can extinguish the sympa-
thy of the world for their misfortunes,
or mitigate the condemnation it will pro-
nounce against his execution.
If Santa Anna met his fate last week
at Sisal, as is represented, while it is not
an unexpected end to the stormy life he
has led, it was an act without warrant
and it does seem that the circumstances
Immediately preceding it. demand the
instant attention Of this government He
was under the flag of the United States,
though in waters Of Mexican jurisdiction
when taken We can perceive as little
justification for the Interference Of the
American officer who forced him into the
position in which the minions of Juarez
seized him, as there is for the arrest and
execution Of Santa Anna, a Mexican,
who was attempting to reach has own
country, and who had given no NANTES,
tation Of an intention to disturb the au-
thority Of its government, and who, even
if he had, had as much claims upon the
confidence and support of that people as
the power that sent him to death At
the present writing, the termination Of
this long and eyentfal life appears 10