Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-06-09
THE HERALD.
A Terrible Satire.


When nearly year ago, in the
gray dawn OF the summer morning
at Oueretero, the cold>hearted bru>
tai Imperial butcher, Macmillan,
whose black flag decree sent nearly
ten thousand men to untimely graves
for the crime of defending their coun.
try against treason and invasion. and
Justly damned his own memory To
eternal intamy, WAS brought out TO
die ielons death, royalty and the
"Divine right OF Kings" received u
blow more terrible than ever dealt
before in the history Of the world
| The duh Drained Austrian pulled up
with self. conceit, and the vanity ard
prejudices of his race. could dimly
comprehend that the stern republican
Benito Juarez might have aims high.
er than a mere desire to enrich him
self, when he refused TO make him
the subject OF \ princely ransom, and
in defiance Of the protests OF Europe
and the intercession OF the United
States signed his death warrant; but
he expected at least TO die like an
Emperor with something of the pomp
and pagentry Of royalty around him
When the carriage stopped and Ma
.Iiano Escobedo with simple move
ment OF the hand, which meant only
"come down. beckoncd him to de>
scend 10 the ground and face the
muskcts OF his executioners. the
dream of q life time was broken. He
saw in that expressive gesture BY the
grim apostle of republcanism, the as
tonlshing and to him almost incom>
prehensible fact that he was looked
upon and to be treated exactly as
any other robber and murderer. of
the common herd he was not even
to be sent TO his grave with theat>
rical display and flourish OF trum-
pets, but was to die like the veriest
cnt-throat Of the road. There was a
world Of concentrated inconoclastic
bitterness and contempt in the ia
nous exclamation of CROMWELL
"Take away that FOOLS bauble p but
Escobedo with mere waving of the
hand, had said ten times as much
Stunned, and as one walking in
dream, Macmillan looked at the
calm impassive face of the republi>
can conqueror, and descended me,
chanically and walked towards the
designated place of execution. He
repeated the set speech he had pre-
pared for the occasion with an alb
stracted air, and the sharp rattle of
the muskets proclaimed to the des-
pots of Europe, that on American
soil there was no royal immunity for
crime; that robber and murderer
was simply that and nothing more,
and found no pl election in blue blood
and the divinity which they had so
long endeavored to teach the world
to believe "doth hedge the King"
That blow was terrible one to
royalty the world over, and America
owes debt of gratitude to the hand
that dealt it, but doubt if it is more
effective, or brought more discredit
upon kingly pretention than one
which followed Juarez ordered the
body of the dead usurper embalmed
and sent home, but he had yet anoth
err insult to offer to Imperialism. The
outfit of the Imperial household, with
all the gaudy trappings which had
been relied upon to dazzle the eyes
and tickle the fancy Of the mob, was
sold at auction, and the gold laced
liveries Of the digntaries Of the pal
ace were turned over-to whom do
you think To the servants of the
President perhaps? Worse than
that To a troupe Of common circus
performers. The circus (Charinis')
made the tour of Mexico in their
CANDY trappings of Imperialism, and
is now en- route for San Francisco,
"the uniforms of the high dignitares
Of the late Mexican empire" forming
I leading feature in the play-bills
and placards "rhe scent of the
saw dust IS over them ALL Could a
more effective satire on the preten-
tons of royalty-anything better
calculated to bring it into utter con.
tempt--have been conceived by the
mind Of man ? There is a savage hu-
NOR in the joke that becomes more
apparent the longer you think on the
subject.