Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-12
Mazimilian,

! The unIuclzy and too pliable tool oi
/ Napoleon's designs against democratic
| government on this continent has been
/ shot to death, after due trial and thus
ends the project which was, according
to the eulOgists of modern Csesarism, to
be the most glorious event in the reign
of Napoleon
OF course, for the individual Maxi
milan, no one has other feelings than
pity; but this should not misIead anv
one to regret that justice, though tarCiy,
has OVertaken him nor to find fault that
he has been punished for the grave
crimes of which he was the chief agent
and which, if they had been successful, ,
would have yielded to him the greatest
reward.
1t has been said of him that he was
the unfortunate tool Of the umscrupu-
lOus Napoleon: but 1t ought not 10 be
forgotten that MaximiliBn WIS too in
telligent to be a blind tool; End we are
to pay regard to the fact tlIGt he suffer-
ed himself to be tempted BY appeals to
personal ambition; that twas a person
al motive, of a low kind. which took
him from MirRmar to Mexico, and once
there, led him to conmft grave and at
rocious crimes against humanity and
liberty, in order to secure to himself the
throne and power ne coveted.
NIaximilian, by a decree. signed with
his own name, ordered the enslavement
of the whole labOring population of
Mexico; they and their women and
children were to be enslaved, to be-
come ssFfs and bOndmen to the capitaI-
lists of the country and to foreigners
who chose to buy them. It was proba-
ply this heintous crime against the per
sonaI liberty OF several millions of
men, women and children, and of an
born generations, which caused his
downfall, by uniting against him all
classes of MeXiCans, except the dpsper-
ate castaWays and political adven tCrers
who were his favorites and advisers. If
the Mexican people had, under such cir
cumstanCes, accepted the rule Of a for
eigner one of whose most Important acts
was to decree the slavery Of the mass
of the people, they would have been
hopelsssly depraved but they appear to
have been aroused by his dercee to a
more bitter and united resistance.
which not only gained the victory 1Dut
prevented the escape Of him who so un-
scrupHIously sought to turn freennen in
to serfs.
Not content with this, AIaximilfan.
disregardfuI of the fact that he was a
foreigner, come without excuse to i'm
pose a despOtic yoke upon a free nation.
by another decree ordered that ali who
resisted his authority, no, matter what
their O f1e or degree Of responsibflftv.
should be shot as soon as captured.
Under this barbarOUs decree of his,
hundreds of soldiers of the republic
were shot to death by the foreign hire
to enable him to master Mexico. This
decree declared that 'sWhen cap
ured such persons would be shot with
in twenty-fOur hours after convection by
cOurt-martiai. In accordance with.thiB
decree Generals Orteaga and SaIazar
and several republicans, being captured
near Santa Ana AmatlRn ON October Is,
were, in few days, summarily exc
cuted, Notwithstanding that it was prob
ably then known by the Emperor that
JuHrez,s reported abandonment of his
cause was unfounded. " We quote
from Journal which sympathizes with
MaXimtiiiau.
These acts show that if ever a man in
vited the fate which has now befallen
him, it was this Austrian archduke,
whose own cruel and bloody DEGREES
suffice to stamp him an enemy to mum
kind.
Weshould not now recall these cir
cumstances five did not notice some de-
signing and some namby-pamby wri-
ters trying to create sympthy for his
criminal ambition, to the injury of the
Mexican liberals, who have so bravely
and faithfully resisted Napoleon and
defeated bis tool.
But the Mexican authorities have
other reasons for doing justice upon
Maximilian The unscru pu lOusness /
duke cIung to his darling ambition for (
imperial rule and power was shown by /
all his acts, from first to last. He was I
not a man to subside, and accept defeat. |
Mr.. Romero, the Mexican minister, in /
a letter which we printed SOME weeks |
ago, remarked:
III do not know what disposition I
President Juarez may make of Maxim /
ilian, but am afraid that IL he is al /
lowed to 60 back to Europe with inn
punity, he will be constant menace !
to the peace of Mexico. He will cOntin- /
ne to style himself, to our shame, Em- /
peror of Mexico, All dissatisfied and de- /
signing Mexicaus will keep up an act |
i've correspondence with him about his 1
supposed popularity there, and these |
people may induce him TO return at some |
future time, as they did with Iturbide. /
Such Of them as can OfTord it will go /
over to Austrin and form a Mexican /
court for Maximilian at Mlramar and |
he Will have enough of them to or /
gantze Mexican government, there /
as the liking of the Two StCiltes did at /
Rome after he was expelled from Ma
pies. Some European powers will con- |
Ginue to recognise him as the Emperor OF /
MexiCo-as Spain did with the eN-king /
of the Sicilies. Whenever we may have /
complications with any European ma
tion, the first step taken by the interes-
ted party will be TO Intrigue with Max
tnllian, and TO threaten us with giving
aid to our lawful sovereign, to recover
his authority from the hands Of the US
urpers,' IL we decline to accept terms.
Those who have watched the career
of MREimilian in Mexico, and who
know the character OF Napoleon, will,
1t seems to us, see much reason In these
remarks of Mr.. Romero. Self-preser-
walton is said 70 be the first law OF ma
tiOns as we'll as nature and certainly a