The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-07-11
Macmillan.

ne unlucky anu 100 pllaDle tool
of Napolcen's designs against dom
ocratic government on this CONT
nent has been shot to death, after
duo trial and thus ends the pro.
ject which was, according to the
culogists of modern CGsarism, TO
be the most glorious event in the
reign OF Napoleon.
OF course, for tho individual,
Maximilian, no ono has other feel
ings than pity; but ihis should
not mislcad any ono TO regret that
JUS ice, though tardy, has ovcrtaken
him nor TO find fault that he has
been punished for the grave crimes
of which bc was chief agent, and
which, il they had been successful,
would havo yielded to him the
greatest reward ttHHtH
! 1t has boon said of him that he
was the unfortunate tool Of tho un,
scrupulous Napoleon :H but il
ought not TO be forgotten that
Maximilian was too Intelligent TO
DO a blind tool !. and we are to pay
regard 10 tho fact that lie suffered
himself to bo tempted by appeals
to personal ambition that il was
u personal motive, of low kind,
which took him from Miramar to
Mexico, and once there, led him to
commit grave and atrocious crimes
against humanity and liberty, in
order to secure to himself the
throne and power ho coveted.
Macmillan, by decrco signed
with his own name, ordered the
cnslavencnt of tho whole laboring
population Of Mexico; they and
their women ahd children were TO
10 cnslavcd, TO become scris and
bondmcn to the capitalists of the
country and foreigners who choose
TO buy them. 1t was probably this
hcinous crime against the person
al liberty of several millions OF
mon, women and children, and Of
unborn generations. which caused
his downfall, by uniting against
him all classes OF Mexicans, except
the desperate castaways and polit-
ical adventurers who wero his ia.
voritcs and advisers. II the Mex
loan people had, under such cir.
cumsiances, accepted the rulo OF n
foreigner, one of whose most i'm
portant nets was to decree tho
slavery Of the mass Of the people,
they would have been hopelessly
depravedi but they appear to have
been aroused by his decree to a
more bitter and united resistance,
which not only gained tho victory
but, prevented tho escape Of him
who 80 unscrupulously sought to
turn lrcemen into seris.
Not content with this, Maximil.
ian, disregardtul of the fact that he
was u foreigner come without ex.
cuse to impose a despotic yoke up.
Oh q FREQ nation, by another de.
cree ordered that all who resisted
his authority, no matter what their
office or degree of responsibility,
should be shotas soon as captured.
Under this barbarous decree OF his,
hundreds Of soldiers Of the republic
were shot TO death by tho foreign
hirelings, whom Maximllian had
imported TO enable him TO master
Mexico This decree declared that
"when captured such persons wo'd
be shot within tweniy.iour hours
after conviction by court martial,
In accordance with this decree
Gererals OrtCaga and Salazor and
several republicans, being captur.
ed near Santa Ana Amatlan on Oc.
tober l3, were, in low days, sum.
marily executed, Notwithstanding
that II was probably then known
BY the Emperor that Juarez's re.
ported Abandonment OF his cause
was untounded" We quote from
q journal which sympathizcs with
Maximilian,
These acts show that If ever a
man invited tho fate which has now
beial'en him, it was this Austrian
archduke, whose own cruel and
bloody decrees suffice to stamp him
an enemy TO mankind.
We should not now recall those
circumstances IL wo did not notice
some designing and somo namby:
pamby writer's trying to create
sympathy for his criminal ambi.
ton, to the injury of the Mexican
liberals, who have 30 bravely and
faithfully resisted Napoleon and
defeated his tool. ,,
But the Mexican authorities have
other reasons for doing iustice up.
on Maximillan. The unscrupu-
lopsneas and tho tenacity with
which tho archduke clnng to bis
darling ambition tor imperial rule