The national Republican., 1867-07-24
The English Liberal Press and
Maxin,iIian.

@ Maxiniilian.
The following extracts from the Liberal
English press will be interesting and sug-
gestive. The FIRST is from the London
Daily Ne,es. The Ee,os says
It is difficult for the European mind to
think Of o member Of q royal and impe-
rial family as Of ordinary flesh and blood.
Maximilian was recognized as emperor Of
Mexico by all the powers Of Europe; min
isters were accredited to his court. But
in Mexico, where the native constitutional
republican government had never ceased
70 exist throughout the civil war which
European intervention had exasperated
into q war Of national independence, his
Austrian rank and title had no existence.
Austria had no sort Of grievance against
the Mexican Government; not even debt
to reclaim.
An Austrian prince was to the Mexican
Government what Garibaldi was TO the
Bomba Government Of the Two Sicilies;
what Juarez might be II he landed in Spain
to establish order and tranquility in that
disturbed country, or Gen. Sherman IL he
landed on the coast Of France at the invi-
tation Of the liberal party to put down the
Second Empire. II is very much the fash
ion with English society to have two
weights and two measures for their politi.
cal judgments. A monarchy may slaugh.
ter scores Of rebels in cold blood, as Aus
tria did in 184s-49 in Hungary, in Italy;
as Prussia did in Baden; as the second
empire did in December, 1851. But re-
publican government may not even de-
nd itoalf l., th.a
by foreign army, and while no quarter is
given to its soldiers, is bound to pardon all
who are taken in arms against Il, on pain
OF being branded as government OF as
sassins.
The London Examiner says:
Which is the European State that can
dare to sit in judgment or cast q stone
The pretender was not executed on Tower
Hill, for he was not caught; but the Eng
lish and Scotch noblemen who were con-
victed Of completely in his cause suffered
the death Of traitors. The Bourbons did
not shoot Napoleon when he broke into
France in 1915, because he contrived to
find refuge on board the Bellerophon; but
they shot Ney, "the bravest Of the brave" !"
like any dog, despite Of cries and groans
of shame; and the representative of Eng.
land at Paris thought it his duty not to
interfere, for which England never blamed
him. The Neapolitan Bourbons, whom
by troops and armies we twice put back
upon their forfeit throne, tried by court
martial and shot their rival Murat, who had
governed the country prosperously and in
peace, and with genuine popular approval,
during several years, and whose sole
offence consisted in his trying to oust them
and take his place again. The great Ma.
poleon's memory is laden with the re-
proach Of seizing the heir Condo, dragging
him across the border, and having him
shot in the ditch of Vincennes for plot
ting the overthrow Of his dynasty.
The London Star says:
People in Europe knew Maximilian as
q brave, accomplished and well.meaninp
young man. But in Mexico he repre-.
sented an invasion the most unprincipled
sustained by policy the most unmerci
full. To us he seems at worst only the
dupe; by them he was felt as the instru
ment. No nation can understand why
another nation puts to death its political
enemies; and IL is the want Of any true
| conscience whatever in such matters thai
makes us each in turn do deeds whicl
justly seem bloody and criminal in the
eyes Of our neighbors. One otherremark
too, must be made. 1t is quite certain
that If Maximilian had captured and sho
Juarez, no tory gentleman in the Houst
Of Commons would have moved any reso
luton Of censurc II is equally certain
that If Macmillan were but another Lo
PEI in rank, his execution would have beer
read Of in England with us little emotion
as that of the hapless invader Of Cuba
Let us remember, however, that the fac
of Maximilians being prince, though il
our eyes 1t doubtless ought to seem suili
cient justification for anything he coult
have done, may, in the eyes Of the Mexi
cans, have not unnaturally tended to ag
1ro yota his nffanca