Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-03
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nations, prevailed, and the required post
ponement was granted. The same even
ing Madame Salm-Salm left San Luis Po-
tasi for Queretaro by special express, ar
|, riving here on the afternoon of the follow
ing day. She was the bearer of a letter
f-om, Juarez to Maximilian, informing
the tttulGdo EnperadOre that the time he
asked for would be accorded him.. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that this answer
was Il welcome relief to the prisoners.
With time, they felt that7One great point
was gained. N othing could now be done
before the fall of Mexico city, and in the
meanwhile hundred influences would be
at work in their behalf fnHi srs. .Gla-s
WHAT MINISTER CAMPBELL MIGHT HAVE
I-,4l rs .r-t --rel- DONE. -.'i :. 'l-'| f-@
The presence of United States minister
is greatly called for at San Luis, and would
much simplify the existing complications.
But whoever is sent must be a smart man,
accus omed TO the ways of the country, or
the Mexicans will get the best of him. In
tie wiles and duplicities of diplomacy they
have no equals. Our present representa-
tives throughout the country are for the
mostpar either plant tools in their hands
or naturalized Americans who care more
for their own mercantile interests than for
the. honor of their adopted country. In
the absence of a United States minister
there are no limits to the absurd rumors
set afloat as to the acts and intentions of
the Washington Government. In San Luis
Potosi was gravely informed that Secre-
tary Seward had r, turned submissive and
apologetic answer to Minister Ledro's
causticl reply to his mediation dispatch.-
Again, it was universally believed that
forty Thousand American troops were on
the Rio Grande, with stores and every re-
QUESTION for march into the INTERIOR
These statements are circulated for set
purpose, and have most deleterious effect
in weakening American influence in the
country.
WHY MAX WENT TO QUERETARo.
In looking over the retained copies of the
dispatches which, at great expense, sent
through the lines from time to time during
the progress of the siege OF Queretaro-but
none of which seem to have penetrated FUR
thcr than the nearest liberal headquarters
II find many points on which it would be
well still to say word. 1t should be pre-
missed that the official reports of the liberal
ComnIander-in-Chief describing the opera
tions in front of Queretaro are in all essen
tial particulars untrue; that the imperial
official bulletins are TO great extent
double ditto, and that the statements of the
newspapers have been more absurdly false
than the liberal and imperial dispatches
combined, which is saying about as much as
can conveniently be put into so small
space.
The Queretaro campaign was undertaken
by Macmillan at the instance of Marquee,
who persuaded him to leave behind in Mex
leo all his foreign troops, taking with him
only body guard of sixty or eighty Hun
garian hussars. The Emperor was 10th to
take the advice thus offered him, but Mar
quez used this insidious argument: 'You
yourself are popular with the Mexicans; it
is your foreign troops they don't like; trust
yourself alone with us and see how they
will flock to you." The advice had in it
much that was congenial to the trustful
nature of the easily led Macmillan, and
against the advice of his best friends he fol-
lowed it. Arrived at Queretaro, he found
himself at the head, not of great army,
but of pitiful force of barely six thousand
men, insufficiently supplied with ammuni-
ton, and he himself. from that time for
ward completely in the power of MARQUEE
and ,Miramon. The only foreign officer OF
experience in his whole service was Prince
Salm- Salm, who, remembering the time
when the Emperor and himself had been
classmates together, had followed him by
stealth from the capital to place his sword
at his disposal.