New-York tribune., 1867-05-28

Of their own selection; these to form an "AssGlh-
"bly of NOtables." This Assembly of NOtablcs
was 10 determine what should be the future Gov
ernment of Mexico.
They met July 10, 1868. A their first session.
cud lciEom single wOrd of debate, they decreed
&c follows: First: The Mexican nation adopts,
cas- ifs form of Government, a limited here
" ditary monarchy, with a Catholic Prince.
" cecopd: The sovereign shall take the tide OF
"the Emperor of Mexico Third: The impe-
L" rial crown of Mexico is offered to his I'M
"peral and Royal Highness the Prince Terd-
"nond Macmillan, for himself and his dcscep-
"dants. Fourth: If the Archdulie OF Austria,
" Ferdinand Maximilian, should not take pos
a. session of the throne that is offered him. the
Michigan nation relies on the good will OF
d" His Majesty Napoleon H., Emperor of the
French, to indicate for it another Catholic
Prince" The last article was unnecessary.
The crown did not 90 a-begging. June IL,
1854, Macmillan took his seat.
The puppet-show worked smoothly. The sol
cnn farce was cOnsummated; and, few
months later, at the opening of the French
Chambers, the Emperor gravely Informed those
bodies that there had been established, under
French auspices, in Mexico, a government
"founded Oh the will of the people" This Gov
eminent, he proceeds to tell them, sis becom-
"ing consolidated, and the malcontents, van
"ouishcd and dispersed, have no longer any
leader" The French Emperor little expected,
when he penned these words, that III two years.
eleven months and three days from the time his
protecG assembled the Mexican throne, the leader
whose existence he thus officially Denied
would capture that proteg6 and extinguish the
last lingering spark of Imperialism on Mexican
soil.
What next? jefferson Davis, the leader of a
Rebellion against lawful authority, which cost,
directly or indirectly, little less than three
ouartcrs of million of human lives is released
on bail. Shall Maximan and his associates
not more culpable, be shot? The same judgment
which VIC passed in the one ease, We pass Ill
the other. AS TO both, we reject the law OF the
old dispcnsation, long since passed away, when
declared: "An eve for an eye; tooth for
"tooth. Whose sheddcth mans blood, by man
" shall his blood be she'd" As to both, we de-
clare chat the civilization of the Nineteenth Cen
fury demands the exercise of clcmency. Not in
their cases alone, but in all cases we concur III
nm opiuion once quantity expressed by that
StUIUN, CtOSS-clcU IHPliSl Idi'di' "Vlh W '"'N'''
that "thc worst use YOU can put man to Is to
" hang him"
Let not Juarez dim ,he lustcr Of his victory.
He cannot reach the original author OF the
usuIpation which for five long years has dis
tracted and desolatcd Mexico. Let him not
vent his wrath on n mere creature, whose re-
fusal to act as the viceroy of France would but
have transferred the Mexican crown TO some
other head, not arrested the ambitious designs
of Napoleon. We may even suppose that Max
imi,.an. in whom the elements OF good and evil
seem strangely mingled, may have been actu-
atod in making this last desperate stand, 10y
sense Of honor toward those who stood 10y Inn
till the final catastrophe, casting their lives IN
the balance with his fortunes.
Juarcz can afford TO spare his enemy. No
example is needed. The last battle that viii
ever he wagcd on American soil in an attempt
10 overthrow a republic and establish on It's
ruins "a monarchy under q European protector
ate. has been fought and lost The attempt TO
consummatc such q crime viii never bc rc-
upatrl.