The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-19
The aMaximilian Avengers'' and New
Rebellion.

Ouixote and his faithful SanchO, but IL seems
ss rtboupb we are blessed with quite num-
bar-15OO in New York city alone. Who
would guess that the ordinary looking men
that we pass in the street had such Chi
vaIrio hearts beating beneath their rusty
coats9 Who could have imagined that in this
great republican country we have a class of
daring aristoerats who are willing to peril life
f or the sake of giving aroyal burialto theoorpse
of the br other of an emperor Yet such we are
told is the case. Throughout our Union is
being organized a secret society," in imitation of
the Fenians, the object of which is to avenge
Maximilian's death. The striking success
which has heretofore attended such secret
leagues gives the new votaries good cause for
hope. Thus the triumph of the Fenian organi-
zation, of the Polish rebellion, of the Orsini
league, of the Knights of the Golden Circle, all
inspire them with hope, and the 'M. AIS" (not
Masters of Arts) are now about to try their hand
at what has been so successfully attempted by
similar associations. The idea of the society
is worthy of medieval times The motto is
ler talionis. It's object is not to establish en-
pire, secure gain, divide beauty and booty,
but merely to have revenge. What care these
heroes, influenced as they are by sincere per-
sOnal devotion to the Arohduke, for gain or
power? They know but one god, or rather but
one goddess. Nemesis is their deity, and this
knightly band strive only for vengeance. But
sOnceding the high character of the enterprise,
and the brave spirit which must ami
mate them to such selfsacrifcing DEVOTION it
is strange that these Damons to a royal
Pythias have never been noticed in any of the
paths of ordinary life. 1t is strange that we
never heard of any of them, and that they are
afflicted with such horribly plebeian names.
Their leader is man named Johnson, and we
have dreadful suspicion that his surname is
jeremiah, a lamentable augury of victory. 1t
may have been, however, that it required some
such emergency to call forth the latent great
ness of the self-sacri6cing friends of the pseudo
Emperor. But certain it is that until now
they were ''to fortune and to fame unknown"
Under these circumstances, we are not sur
prised that people doubt the pure disinte-
RESIDENCES of the scheme, and impute to these
Knights of Blood unworthy motives. Thus it
happens that we are told that new Rebellion
in the United States is to be inaugurated, and
morning contemporary seriously discusses
the probabilities of such an event. Soberly
it says:-"It is whispered around that the
flibustering movement going on over the
country under pretense of avenging the death
of Macmillan, is but cloak under which
some desperate and discontented parties are
attempting to inaugurate another Rebellion.
While zoe are not prepared to sOholly credit the
Tunaor, certain it is that the persons who are
urging this violation of our international rela-
tions are the same who sympathized with the
Confederate cause during the war;"
We are rather gratifed to find that the
rumor is not received as gospel. In these
dull days, anything for an excitement. Why
should we not discourse on the prospect
of another rebellion Why not redisturb
the South, and in the minds eye decide
whether or no we need fear another invasion
and whether that elaborate fortifcation, that
miniature Sebastopol, that infant Gibraltar
built at Manayunk to protect our city in 1863
is strong enough to defend us against the new
enemy9 We really have little patience with
the credulity which would accept any canard
of the New York Herald as though it had good
foundation.
We doubt, in the first place, whether there
ever was such an organization as the "Maxi-
milan Avengers" We do not think that
there ever existed any such association,
unless it was composed of few adventures
who never anticipated anything but practi-
cal joke or the pocketing of a few hundred
dollars. That Congress should dignity such a
fascO of an organism by asking, as it did
yesterday, whether the Government had taken
any steps to prevent the success of the scheme,
seems to us an attempt to erect a mountain
out of a molehill. We do not believe that there
are fifty men in the United States who know
anything definite about the Avengers" The
very name is suggestive of dime novel, and
recalls the "Bloody Buccaneers of the Bay Of
Biscay." But when we are are told, seriously,
that this organization is to attempt new Re
bellion. they who SO inform us must have
Int a low estimate of our intelligence. Where
ia the Rebellion to begin! Where is its
money! What are its prospects Have
we any candidates for the halter
anv lunatics at large who desire to star
for the undiscovered country Yet we notice
papers reported to possess discretion speaking
,of this force as though there was real danger
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