The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-10

by still another reduction the year following till rents are as
reasonable as they were before the
Mexico
1t is again asserted that Santa Anna is still alive
It took seven days and seven nights to embalm Maxim
ilian.
On Holy Thursday, in the year 1919 when Charles " of
Spain and Austria was reigning handful of Spanish SOL
ders flying from the wrath Of their supreme governor
landed under the leadership of Corez at S. Giovanni Uoa
in Mexico They led there by their Unsuitable thirst
for gold and that eversh love of adventure and unknown
empires which then agitated the contemporaries of Column
bus and which, strangely enough mixed up with reli
gous sentiment for planting in barbarou lands and
breasts.
The country where they landed, rich in the finest pro-
ducts and having every variety of climate the present
Mexico which the natives called Tenochtillan. 1t
inhabited and governed by the Aztec awarke and priesty
race who having come from the North, had imposed
themselves the ancient Toltech.
The union of the Aztecs with the Totech produced good
fruit the peoples mixed and from their
civilization in which remained traces of the Aztec
ferocity blended with the polish of the aborignes.
They worhiped in the tesca the god Mexit god of war;
they worshiped light Also and expected the Messiah;
Then Cortez who united all the Castlan bravery
with the political for which the Spanish school is famous
He contved to gain the Cacque of Cempoalla and
to spread discord among the inhabitants by stirring up the
memories of the Aztec conquest until at last having allied
himself with party of Tascaa he went toward Mexico
the capital, unlimited guest, but still a guest.
He abused this hospitality took the King Monezuma
prisoner fortified himself in Mexico and having go forth
from the city oppose other Spanard who had landed to
divide the booty with h he Gs the h to e
of festival had almost all the nobility of the place mas
sacred and then the people, having rebeed against the for
eigners, began the most heroical resistance
The noche tiste well known in the annals OF SPAIN
when Avarado and Corez in the middle of Mexico,
rounded by desperate enemies owed their life superhuman
efforts.
But the arms of the Adventures superior; Corez
saved by miracle from the noce t gained at Otumba
bloody battle by the help of the Tascaes laid siege to
Mexico again. and took the city by Storm destroyed the
inhabitants and tortured death with barbarou cruelty the
yalorous King Quatimozin -
Mexico fell in the plain of Anahuac where twenty cities
once stood desert appeared.
If the Aztec according their hord custom, deyoured
their enemies the Spaniard who at that time devourg
Italian liberty in Europe the bones OF the poor natives
to the dogs. Of the two the Spanards were the
How Mexico afterwards governed by the Court OF
Madrid and the cruel avidy of the Viceroy is evident to
any who goes and the country The original race the
Aztec Indians divided into repartietos given like
land sheep the conquerng whites SO that in few years
that people decimaed and completely brutal1zed
The natives could have civil rights, confined in
small villages put under priest and European lord They
had to live as he liked and die when Madrid and its fol-
lowers thought proper What of ignorance hatred
and savage accumulated in many years OF
vitude history knows and Mexico now shows Europe is
reaping what she sowed.
In 1910 the indignation of the native population broke
fort-Hidalgo poor curae OF Dolores put himself at the
head of the insurgents guided them to the victory of Las
Cruces LAYING the foundation of Mexican liberty Hldago
having been conquered and shot by the Spaniard Cae
orelos with the flag of liberty another professionalism
to Hidalgo-Matamoros having been also shot by Calea,
the hatred of the foreigner remained bitter before that
Iturbide-who was a nativewas able for time to make
himself Emperor and dictate the laws of the piano
which were the legal foundation OF the Mexican autonomy
Independence then rearose and lurbde and the empire
died
Thenceforth Mexico freed from foreign rule fell prey
to internal discord..
However, how could expect that people which had