The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-24

very text of the paper in which Bscobedo de-
| clares bis purposes. That oOwardly miSoreant
declares that, ''as allthe property IN the nanos
of the foreigners in Mexico has been acquires ,a
by Mexican nisfortunes, the Mexican people
should now take possession Oh ~ auU
have power TO hunt them from the ooun-
try" He adds to this that MS motto Is
death to all strangers" ne even BOes 30
far as to say:-"Tbe is no danger OF Ine
Yankees interfering with us so long as the
Southern States are kept out OF the Union"
II tbis is not the language, IL these are not
the deliberate views of the Government Of
.Juarez they certainly correspond in most
remarkable way with the answers, official and
semi official, returned to our appeal on behalf
of the betrayed victims at Queretaro. Inso-
lence was the feeling uppermost in response to
our intercession. BlOodthirstiness was the
first instinct developed in the oonuuerors by
their wretched triumph. The indications in
both cases were in such harmony with the
reported decree of Escobedo, that the protes-
tations of Mr.. Romero do not make feathers
weight as rebutting testimony; and the Mexi-
can agent merely makes the case against his
savage employers all the worse by attempting
to screen their brutalites and palliate their
crimes. " @ ta .. .-
There might be soma justification for Mill
tary eXcesses committed in the heat of war
fare, or under the impulse of victory legiti-
mately achieved. And against such excesses,
it might have been believed by the outside
world that a Government so loosely cOnsti-
tuted as that of Juarez, with so many native
factions already working for its overthrow,
could not readily provide. But this decree
against the lives and properties of foreigners
is a thing of manifest purpose and deliberation.
The same Court that tries and sentences the
vanquished to an ignominious death-with the
sanction of the de facto Observation-Disclosures
in favor of policy of determination against
ha frat ot xua
protest officially, and the answer is yell of
savage scorn. Against the greater outrage,
threatened against our own countrymen and
other foreign residents, the whole American
people protest, through their press, and the
answer is an equivocating statement from the
Washington agent of Juarez, declaring simply
his individual belief in EscobedO's humanity
and good faith. That is not the way in which
the Government of the United States, so long
as it respects itself, can afford to be answered
by another, whose very existence for years
has depended upon the sympathy of the Anne
ncan people.
If Escobedo is simply an independent mill
tary actor, carrying out his own behests and
that of some one of the endless native factions,
his acts, instead of admitting equalization, make
1t incumbent on his political chief Juarez, to
disavow promptly all completely with him
henceforward. If the Mexican military leader,
on the other hand, still continues to hold the
commission of servant of the Mexican re-
public, the policy of Juarez and of his agents
here demands more notice than the rebuke of
journalists representing the prevalent senti-
ment Of the American people. We are not
called upon to avenge Prince Maximili ans
death, inasmuch as we are free from every
shadow of responsibility for the catastrophe
in which his enterprise eliminated. We can
do no more for the victims of the Queretaro
court-martial than deplore their horrible fate.
Much as we may have found our influence dis
credited in the savage policy there carried into
effect, torcible interference was not demanded
at our hands. But the case is altogether diff
ferent if these latest reports are true. We
shall have to see to it that the lives, the liberties
and the property of American citizens living
peaceably in Mexico are not put in jeopardy
on any plea whatever. # some of them sym
pathized with the system of government
which Prince Macmillan sought to establish,
that is their own business. So long as they
were not engaged in hostile acts against the
dominant faction, so long as they conformed
to such municipal laws as they found in exist
ence, whether these laws were sustained by
Imperial or Republican authority, so long had
they, and have to-day, the right to such pro-
lection as the existing Mexican Government
can extend to them. DEGREES of confscation
against their property or against their per-
sons may be in sense impotent. But the
! issuing of such DEGREES at the hands of mill
tary leader is an insult which no government
could tolerate and continue to maintain its
self-respect, or its influence among independ-
ent powers. If the Mexican agent is in a po-
sition to show that his Government is blame
less of any completely with Escobedo in his
scheme of plunder and determination, he can
not set about that task too soon. If we desire
| to respect the claims of Mexico to independ-
ence, we desire as well to avoid the fellowship
of community which refuses to be held anne
nable to the laws of civilized nations.