The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-08-13

TIE REIGN OF TERROR IN MEXICO -
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
gives this graphic and striking picture of
the present tumult and anarchy in Mexico,
which, with all allowance for its imagin-
alive origin, proves that the strength of a
republic is not in its popular form Of
government, but in the integrity and
enlightenment of the people who compose
it,
The liberal party has ovcrshot the
mark. The friends OF the party have
ceased 10 sympatizc with it. They are
Mortified with its barbariiics. The change
has already begun to dawn. Accusing
voices, subdued as yet, will soon ring out
like u clarion. The dead sleep quietly.
but blood fOully shed cries from the
grounds, from the graves Of Macmillan
and Miramon, the graves Of those who
persisted at Zelaya, Queretaro, san Jacinto
and other places; voices that tell how
from cold blooded policy murder. have
been done, and calling to account the
guilty. Most damaging and suicidal has
been the course Of Juarez during the four
past months. Foreign governments will
surely condemn; and they ought, in fact,
30 severe forever all intercourse with the
bloody Mexican bantling. Let the Cain"
OF the western continent wander through
the world alone. In this capital, at this
late day even, imperial officers are hunted
down Ike wild beasts and shot, while the
ladrone rabble pierce the Heavens with
Yea Ia repabtca" They are headed
on their way from the country, tracked
to the mountain Businesses, carried back
to the capital, where military court
passes sentences. ConviaiOn al ways
follows the trial There is no case of
acqnittal ON the record. But what is the
last brave act of the new government
The arrest and Imprisonment of an Amer
lean lady, the wife of Prince Salm Salm
She ia carried off TO San Luis, for what
cause no one knows, while her husband
awaits at QueretGro the pleasure of a
Mexican court martial, either to be shot
or to langulsh for six years in the "black
hols " Of Mexico. The wife oI Mcndez
is insane the wife Of Mcjia is mad; the
wife of Miramon is stricken beyond hope
of recovery; but people here know that
the barbarlc appetite is not yet 6a,iated.
The time has come when the nation
should call this man 10 an account, and,
if nothing better can be done, to blot from
the map and from history the empire OF
Montczuma. To wait longer is crime.
1t is a crime already. Six hundred
officers and men, the emperor, his gene
rails his ministers, shot as traitors. by
whom by decree-more properly All
ordcr-of Juarez, and he usurper and
dictator. Let Us bury forever these
men, who stand in the way Of our promo
ton" That was the battle cry through
all this bloody drama. Liberty and
country" is farce in Mexico. Patriot.
ism has no existence here, it is myth.
The decree Of Maxmiian, which i
offered in exclamation Of bis hard fate
'''' iN1esth "i'Nii NOhiil1 was tpul
pletely suhjugated, and when no armed
organization against the empire existed
The mountains then swarmcd with robber
bands, who ravagcd and murdered with.
out remorse, on the highways AMI else
whore. These brigands, when caught.
evadel the law by pleading a connection
with IN organized liberal army. The de.
cree Furnishing by death all found in arm.
against the government then vent out land
it is well established fact that ninety.
nine out Of every one hundred who sur
tered under the decree were notorious and
convicted robbers. But even this miser-
able subterfuge fails in five hundred other
cases. What apology is there for shoot
ing privaies 1T was desperate gam,
they were playing-these Mexican CAD
nibals-and as it eliminated no wonder
it appalled, them. They dreamed Of
coming days Of turbulence, when to then
there would lie 10 remission
No wonder there wls shaking and
trembling among the mcrcilesa leaders or
the morning of the 10Th of June. NJ
wonder they were stricken dumb wher
Miraman's "Niva Mexico; viva FL en-
perador,' thundcred in their ears. Stand
ing over his grave, his defiant, IL nm nc
traitor" swelled ike a trumpet on the
morning air. Faces grew paler then, anc
the ears Of his murderers tingled as they
awaited the tragic end. The dead, NJ
one can doubt, will yet be avenged. Per
haps before the sod of their grave is green
The noble martyrs, may be, will hav,
preceded but brief period the as-as,in
in tha urent rrocoSs,on of tho danI