The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-07-17
From the N. Y. Herald.
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Poor Carlotta!" Macmillan was skot
faced to front His last words were Poor
Carlotta!" How tender and touching is
this convincing illustration cf the manly
and generous nature Of the fallen Emperor!
Abandoned by France, betrayed by Mex
ican follower, tried by military tribunal
of his implacable enemies, condemned to
DEATH and brought out for execution, all
interpretations in his behalf from the repre-
sentatives of foreign powers having failed,
this distinguished victim of Narolt on $
grand idea would have been justified had
he he devoted his last moments in denounc-
ing the contrivers of his destruction and
the barbarians thilstlng for his blood, and
in deploring his untimely fall, in the strength
Of his manhood and his hopes.
But Macmillan was a man Of larger
breadth of mind and heroism than this.
He had deliberately cast his life in the
scales in defense of his empire, he had
pledged his word in the name Of his In
perial House Of Hapsburg to fight it out
with his enemies. and like true soldier.
he was prepared for this last disaster He
recognized his fate as resulting from the
fortunes OF war, and had neither denuncia
ticns not regrets on his own account to
mak". Like the dying Gladiator at Rome:
He rocked not of his life. nor of his prize.
His heart was hsme, and that was far away.
Face to face with his remorseless execu-
TONERS, awaiting but the word to fire!'
all thoughts of his lost empire and his low
estate gave way to those en- learing mem y
lies and wo"t affections which had linked
his HE, his happiness, his fate, and his
ambition with poor Carlotta!' AS to a
drowning man nu nerous events Of his pat
life running through many years Of time
are wildly reproduced in a few Heeting sec
onds so to this victim of Mexican ven
geance were, no doubt, recalled in the last
moments of his earthly existence those
charming recollections of his young beauti
full, gifted, accomplished and devoted wife,
whereby he had becamc so fascinated with
his Mexican empire and his hopes of the
Mexican people, that he could onlp reln,
quish them with his life. "Poor Carlotta!"
Her triumphal journeys, her floral recep
tions, her welcome charities, her gracious
ways, her Catholic pinty, and her restless,
womanly gentleness among the susceptible
Mexicans, were all SO faithfully devoted to
his cause as to develop n him the heroism
of the feudal ages. Ele was her gallant
knight, equipped by her own fair hands
Tor glorious crusade; she was his queen OF
love and beauty, to whom his word as
soldier and his faith as devotee we're pledg.
ed. All these thoughts in the presence Of
the grave, doubtless, recurred TO him as
memories of golden dream, and from these
and that thought, that she hid hopefully
braved the dangers Of the as, and hat
doubtful generosity of France in his behatf
only to he repelIad in despair, ami to be
doomed to living lea h, c,m1 the inspir'-
on to VI xiniliaa which was expressed
in his last expressive words-"Poor Car
lotta!"
Nor is there in the records of history, as
tie last words of dying saint or hero, any
thing given which appeals so tenderly to
our better nature, to all that beauties and
softens the human character, as these dy
ing words of M"ximiian: Poor Carlot
tai" They will crown in history this fallen
man. However misgui ed he was in his
ambition or in his acts a. ii ruler, those two
words, with all their impressive and re-
deeming associations, will crown him with
flowers Of affection and the laurels of the
herp. Had he recited and eloquently vim
dicated every step and every ac in his inn
perial career he would have failed to rea ch
the eloquent defense embodied in his dying
exclamation Of Poor Carotta" To her
they will be the words of restoration or
dissolution; for him they are the wreath Of
immortality Poor CarIotta'