The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-12
The PeriIs of MaxImiIIan.

from me IlIneS.
Our Government has acted commercially in
interceding with the Republican authorities
of Mexico for the personal safety of the En-
peror Maximilian. The Austrian Prince has
been for some time in very dangerous posi-
tion. 1t can hardly be said that he holds any
part of Mexico besides Vera Cruz, Queretaro,
and the Capital. The former place he holds
by the most uncertain tenure There is a
Liberal force outside the city, and there are
hardly anybody but Liberals inside; and it
only requires such contingency as may hap
pen at any hour to put both city and fortress
into the hands of Juarez. Things are not bet
ter in the capital and it is only through mar
tial law that he is able to maintain even the
semblance of authority there. His presence
at Queretaro with such an army as he pos
sesses may be proof of his spirit and courage,
but it is no security for his fortunes. The
detection of any one of his generals, with all
of whom detection is a commonplace affair.", or
a successful movement on the part OF the
Liberal force which confrOnts him, may leave
him any day without feet of Mexican soil
on which his life is worth a moments pur-
chase.
The recent shocking action of some of the
Liberal Generals, and especially Escobedo,
shows that there would very surely be quick
work made with MaXimilian, if caught, unless
the authority of Juarez, to whom our Govern
ment has appealed, were interposed in his
behalf-It is not at all unnatural that the
Mexican Liberals should feel greatly exas-
perated against the Imperialists. The miseries
of the French war of invasion have been eXpe-
rienced by every Mexican, and the atrocities of
such monsters as the French Dupin, were of a
kind certain to be followed by retaliation.
But inasmuch as our Government never ceased
to demonstrate against French outrages, it has
now right to demonstrate with the MeXicans
who would retaliate.
We have a right, moreover, to intercede
with the MeXicans in behalf of MaXimilian, on
the large ground that it was the power of our
! Government which expelled the French from
| Mexico Had we not taken part with the
! Mexicans, the French would have annexed
their whole country as an Imperial province,
and the French mode of pacifying Algiers
shows the means that would have been
adopted of dealing with recalcitrant MeXicans.
From all this we have saved Mexico; and our
word must therefore be authoritative when
we interpose in behalf of the unhappy Prince,
whose fortunes and misfOrtunes have certainly
not been of his own making.
~ would be as well, however, for Maxi
Hihan' 5 friends to urge him to take speedy
advantage of this interposition, and not delay
MS departure till destruction Overtakes him
What We Get by the Treaty.
3 From ue Tribune.
t Inc russian Treaty has been made public
7 apparently without authority. In the frs
= article the boundaries of the ceded territory
= are detined in the second is transferred to tn,
e United states the title of all public property
4 with the exception of the Greek Churches
: which are to remain the property of thei
v members; IN the third, it is stipulated tina
. the inhabitants, excepting uncivilized tribes
shall, after three years residence, be admitte