The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-21
HEexico-Aca Fifth.

The Austrian Admiral, Tegethon, after
mouths of waiting, has at length obtained
possession of the body of the Emperor OF
Mexico" The remains were denied to him
at first because he did not come properly ac-
credited as the agent of his government, but
upon presentation of the papers, authorizing
him to receive the body of Maximihan, it
was delivered up. 1t is said to be in as good
state of preservation as could be expected
from the lapse of time since his decease
thus contradicting the wild rumors of savage
mutilaton and brutal outrage which have
made the word "Mexican" a synonym for
barbarism. BY this time the Austrian frigate
Novara is under way from Vera Cruz, bear
ing monarchy back to Europe, and Maximil-
ian back to her whom kindly world, and
not her husband, has called "poor Carlotta."
For people SD poor in all that makes a
nation that they have only semi-lucid inter
yals of civil government interpolated between
periods of varied revolutionary arrangement,
they have been wonderfully successful in hunl-
iating Europe. Since Hannibal came to threat
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no foreign power has SO baked, defeated and
disgraced the proud nations of Europe as this
same weak, puny, half-cvilized Mexico. The
prestige of France was not alone at stake in
the matter of building up transatlantic
empire. Both Spain and England were so
far committed to the crime as to suffer loss Of
dignity from the result, though they withdrew
at the outset, frightened by the dangers and
the expense which seemed likely to attend
the collection Of their debts by force of arms
Austria sent scion of her royal house to luIe
in Mexico, and her honor suffers equally with
that of the other powers. The unfortunate
Macmillan was connec sed by marriage, too
with the reignipg family of Belgium so that
all western Europe, either directly or indirect
", has been defed and set at Taught
by Juarez and his associates. The
thoroughness with which all the details of the
humiliation of Europe have been attended to
is worthy of consideration. Those powers
which were not directly involved in the attempt
to overthrow the Mexican Republic, neverthe-
less recognized the Empire. The Republic is
no sooner restored, than it retaliates by ignor-
ing their existence in turn. and all diplomatic
intercourse with them is suspended. Their
representatives are dismissed, only TOO glad to
carry their imperiled heads out of the coun-
try, unsevered from their bodies by the sword
Of the grim Escobedo. The Frenchman saw
visions more terrible than that of the guillo-
tine of his native country before he was
cheered by the welcome sight of the sea at
Vera Cruz. s
b The banquet given to Admiral Tegethoff
by the German club at the capital, on theeve
ofhis departure for Europe, was fitting de-
noaement for Napoleon's little by-piay on this
side OF the water. Thelate Prussian minister,
Baron Won Magnus, who had not then left
the country, proposed the future prosperity of
Mexico as government and the welfare of its
citizens as people. That toast marked be-
yond question, the final renunciation by Eur
rope of any hope of imposing its institutions
upon America In responding to it, the Eu-
ropean powers, whose representatives were
present, abandoned this continent to democ-
racy forever. All that now remains of Am
erican royalty is the poor imitation of tinse
and ermine in Canada, and the empire of
Don Pedro in Brazil. AS for the perpetuity
of the former, the defiant attitude of Nova
Scotia is a fair offset for the boastful declara-
ton Of the irrepressible T. Darcy MCGEE, that
'ffty years after the PRONUNCIATION of the
Monroe doctrine on this continent the repre-
sentatives of four millions of free people have
elected for themselves and their posterity, a
monarchial torn of government" Don Pc
dros State is probably destined to longer
lease OF of existence; but with all the rest of
the continent republicanized, that little patch
of empire will be no more than spot on the
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