The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-09-05

| dictated the love breathing decree to
shoot down without delay like felonsevery
patriot and friend Of freedoms. - -
Equipped with the blessings OF tie
| Church, this murderer of republics dis
| embarked his mercenaiies of your shore
under the most comardly. and-hy peeri-
| teal pretext, and having by means OF an
| insidious breach of treaty advanced to the
interior, he at last threw-off his mask and
| openly began his WeTk- sutjugatlon,
being Welcomed and supported by the
treachery Of those who m your country
also have so successfully cultivated the
Doctrine of Love The first result
obtained by such infamous means, filed
him with the most presumDtuous certain
ty of the success of his far-reaching under
taking which he called in one of his let
ters to chief-eAecutioner Eorey, the
most glorious of his reign. Taking as
a standard his European experiences,
whereby he had proved that a resolute
wickedness, by means of fear and corrup-
ton, can momentarily accomplish things
the most inconceivable, he, like his Aus
titan after age, employed every form
of barbarism and deceit, of violence and
falsehood of intimidation and seduction
Patriotism was considered treachery, and
treachery patriotism The love of free
dom was denounced as deadly crime
and vile seryility was lauded as the high
est civil virtue The blood of AN almost
defenccless people flowed in streams
through the streets of devastated cities,
that people who had given no provocation
and whose only crime was unwilingness
to be made the enthusiastic slave of
foreign robber and murderer Their
chosen leader who ref .ed to set the
usurpers crown upon the curse laden
head of the murderer of his country,
escaped death only because none of his
countrymen was 50 base as to covet the
reward which foreign tyranny had offered
for his head
And yet this terrible power, Threatens
ing death and destruction to all its apo
nents, and Offering rewards and distinct
ions to its partlsans, was crushed by the
resistance of small people, who almost
without any arms, or any organization,
and without support from any other ma
ton, had to fight five years uninterrupt-
ediy for their existence, while enduring
the greatest suiferings and privations
We do not wish to flatter this people, be-
cause we know their dehcenceS But
they owe these deficiencies to the very de
spotlsm which tries to re-enslave them,
and to that same priesthood which has
again made common cause with this des
potlsm. And they certainly deserve. the
highest acknowledgements and awaken the
best hopes for their future, because they
have, Notwithstanding these deficiencies
shown themselves competent to maintain
their independence and their republican
constitution against that powerful des-
potism, which has been supported, dl-
rectly or indirectly, by every conservative
power on earth. However all these ex-
ertions and sacrifices would have been in
vain had this people not been led by a
man to whom despair was unknown who
under the most fearful trials, knew how
to sustain the hopes and to presel We the
harmony OF his compatriots, and whose
courage and perseverance, whose patriot
ism and firmness Of principle We're even
greater than the unequalled difficulty of
his position.
For all this, most honored citizen and
President, the undersigned citizens of the
United States cannot refrain from eX-
pressing to you their Acknowledgement
and admiration, At the same time ac-
cept our sincerest gratitude for the SER
vice you have rendered the Republic in
general and-iustice demands this avowal
the Republic Of North America espe-
osally. by the salvation OF the Mexican
republic
Even if it should be true-which how
ever, would require to be fully establish
ed-that 1t was not the hopelessnesS Of
the French enterprise, but the timid di
plomacy Of the United States. which
compelled your principal enemy to with
draw, before the power OF resistance OF
your people became exposed to e1haus-
ton, We consider your merits not less
praiseworthy. For without your peril
naclouS and effective resistance the vlcto
rlous power OF the invasion would have
been ready to support the rebellion of the
treacherous shareholders at the time
when the wavering fate Of The United
States might have been decided by such
dangerous auxiliary.
Bat as the conduct of your war with
Its important results deserves our highest
Acknowledgement and admiration, so has
the act with which you concluded 1t our
entire consent less approval. We feel the
more impelled to express this particular
ly, because that same act has brought up
on you unlimited censure from other par
ties \ on could not but expect this cen
sure, and therefore We value your moral
courage the more. To defy prevailing
preludlces, and so-called public opinion
by fulfilling one 5 duty and maintaining
the right is often far greater heroism,
than u heroic action on the battlefield
That the execution OF criminal born in
the purple has created storm of rage
among his worth colleagues aud their pi
tiiul tools, is not to be wondered at; but
that even European Representatives of
liberty could forget themselves 50 far as
to intercede for such an offender, must
hill above all those republicans, who know
European despotism from their own ex-
perience, with no less Indignation than
that the greater part of the press and the
politicians in the United States should
have taken part against you because you
have Impressed the Monroe Doctrine on
European usurpers with bloody words,
! the only ones that princes understand
But all true republicans stand by you.
They praise Your firmness and your WIS
dom, which perceived what .sas due to
the republic and to justice. You have
taught the kings, who since the time Of
Louis WI. had lost all sense of respon-
slbilltv to measure the greatness of their
crimes by applying corresponding means
of punishment. Iou have show t,ie ma
tons how to treat those crowned GRIMM
ais, who hitherto could trample with inn
punity upon them and wallow III their
blood. You have oveTthrown the odd
justice Of subjects and slaves, which
hangs the lesser criminals and lets the
greater go. You have demonstrated the
difference between nation Of subjects,
who are treated by Il roya villain ike a
drove of cattle, and that of nation of
republicans, III whose territory he can on
~ appear in order to lose his head with
his usurped crown. By having put the
earthly gods on the other side of the ocean
in position powerless to witness the ex.