American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-07-31

! nc dpulOSiStS VI tuaG savage uecreu OF
! October, 1865, which the French per>
suaded Maximilian to sign, are doubtless
justified In asserting that the unhappy
and amiable Prince was overdone by the
pleasure of military men, who, as all
Europe well knows, are never slow to
shed blood, and who have not learnt to
respect human life in Algeria or in Paris
| Is it, then, unreasonable to suppose that
! President Juarez, whom those who know
him intimately declare to be q brave,
humane and honest citizen" was over,
borne by the military officers who sat on
that court martial at Queretaro, some of
whose comrades, friends and relatives,
perhaps, had been shot in cold blood in
pursuance of that Imperial decree? !? 1t
is hard to be compelled in the interests
OF truth and justice to recall these facts
at the present moment But if history
is philosophy teaching by example, let us
at least, whether Imperialists or Repub-
licans, monarchs or subjects, endnavor to
draw some profitable, though bitter, les
sons from these sad events.
There is another point in the mournful
narrative, which, in justice both to Max>
imilian and to the Emperor of the French
should be correctly stated. In March
last the Emperor Maximilian had decided
on abandoning Mexico. Two Austrian
ships-of,war were ready to receive him
at Vera Cruz. An aid.de'camp was ac-
tualy sent from Vienna to Gibraltar to
meet him on his return to Europe. Who
detained him? That clerical party which
three years ago was intriguing at the
| Tuilleries, and agitating at Miramar to
induce the Archduke to embark upoh
crusade for the overthrow of the consti>
tutional government of their country.
That clerical party, from whose counsels
the honesty and intelligence of Maximil-
ian, and even the courageous piety of
that gentle and admirable lady whose
bright young life was destined to set so
soon in dark perplexity, recoiled in dis
gust when they discovered all its foulness
and rapacity that clerical party which
denounced the Emperor Maximilan at
Rome, and withdrew from him the bene-
diction of the Holy Father, in March
last, when the French army had precip-
itately disappeared from the scene Of its
sterile triumph and its uncompleted con-
quests, and Maximilian was abandoned
an easy prey to the national forces he had
defied that clerical party which had in
vited, deserted and denounced him, in
tercepted him on his way to Vera Cruz,
and, with offers of a new treasury and
new army, entreated and persuaded him
to retrace his steps to the capital and
pursue the war in that quarter And
who were the Generals of this clerical
party? The notorious Miramon and
Marquee: Miramou, who had broken
into and pillaged the British embassy !;
MARQUEE, man of thousand murders
But the clerical piastres were not forths
coming and the clerical army was
handful of desperate outlaws, led by men
semi-oflicial compiler of news for the
French public is fain to acknowledge !;
"those who first invited Macmillan to
Mexico kept him there and as they
deceived him when they said that the
whole country awaited him as its savior,
they likewise deceived him, when, at the
last moment, they persuaded him that he
might hold the country by force of arms
although the French themselves admitted
that this was impossible" This semi-
official historian Of course forgets that NJ.
Ronner himself, over end over again, in
the Corps Legislatif, has said and written
precisely what the clerical party in Mex,
leo told the ill>fated Macmillan last
March, and what the French themselves
admitted was impossible Our duty as
simple servants of the truth is to take
care that neither the clerical party nor
the second empire shall be defrauded of
its just share of responsibility. The
task is not happy or grateful one and
were it not for the illjudged attempt of
certain of our cotemporaries to assist the
Moniteur in dark ening knowledge, we
would gladly leave it to the passionless
and fearless tribunal of history.
MARSHAL BAZAINE's RULE.
[From the London Star, July iO.l
Some persons are employed in Paris
in collecting the proclamations of Mar
shall Bazaine, in which he exercised the
most cruel sevcreties towards the Mexi-
can republican party, while it is intend
ed to give list of the persons shot by
the imperialists.
THE PRISONERS PHOTOGRAPHED.
| [Prom (July 81 correspondence of London stsrl
BY steamer arrived at Southampton
on the I'd, a photograph has reached
Paris, which was executed at New Or
leans, of drawing taken in the prison Of
Queretaro, representing the Emperor,
Miramon, Mejia and the Prince of Selm-
Salm, in the convent of Las Capuchiuas.
The Emperor, in plain clothes, is wri-
ting at table, whilst the Prince, in a
braided palsee and Russian boots, stand s
next to him.
Mirsmon lies on the only mat in the
ROOM
Mejia in uniform, is wearing naval
cap, is smoking.
Through an open door two Mexican