Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-04


,rosd, hare. mown swaih. leading back like
i wO avenues into the dim distance
MEXICO on her DIGNITY.
The Journals OF the Capital on the Impu.
dent Prctentions OF the Yankees
Extradition OF Prisoners.
From the Federallsta.
The question Of the extradi,ion Of pris-
,,ners on the northern frontier. in conform
iv with the treaty entered into between
Mexico and the United States on the 2Srd
o May, 1862, i. being seriously discussed
bv The press e Ma,amorns. The evslution-
..ry government (gohierno revolutionsrie}
is attack with veh.m, nee for delivering
~. hy order of Ministe, Vallarte, the sup
D sed prisoners, PARA Ontivero, aud
Ee oronceda, TO the Americaas The inpu-
ni,y with which the revo utionary govern
nrnt is delivering up prisoners TO Ameri IN
.xigency is truly frightful. This delivery
i rrontersmen to tn. Am rican authoriti.e
i. sentence of death for all, and judicialls
lynch law will BE- applied, and quickly
will they for,ei, their lives. That a Mex
lean president D,az). nsinR the faculties Of
government breaks law and treaties to
nhsequiously give up victims in exchange
TOR probable recognition Of his usurped
government, is 40 monstrous as to be hardly
conceivable. But nothing is more certain
than this shame. The nation looks on at
i,s laws vili6ed, at the traffic Of its sovereign
itv, and finally at tue delivery Of its citizens
the gallows of neighborina nation.
Could there be more abject submission? The
reply of Minister ValIarte on this subject,
which we publish el~ewhere, tries to discul-
pate the government in this proceeding, en-.
tirelv forgetting the extradition treaty to
which all such proceedings should be sub
ject To deliver Mexican citizens in such
manner ia . crime, and an attack on our
federal compact. If patriotism existed in
congress, Don Porfico Diaz and his minister,
Vallarte, would be arrested and tried be-
fore the grand jury to answer to their con.
duct for the vile deliveries Of Mexicans to
a foreign power. But in this age of social
diasolu,ion the great virtues have disap
peared to give place to infamous compile
ity.
From the Diario Official.
With regard to our foreign relations, al
friendly powers have answered the courte
ou. notification given by the Mexican gov
ernment excepting the United States o
America. For this reason the enemies o
th actual administration have spread the re
port that the object of Mr.. Mata's mission I,
Washington was to obtain, at my sacrifice
the Re coen,tion Of this government by tha
of tie United States rumor entirely false
as Mr. Mata received instructions to pro
cure the official rec gnition of the Mex cal
government by that of the United States r.
means which would in no wise compron,is
III. national decornm and interesta, vim
to understand at the same time that sa;
recognition is not favor bestowed upol
Mexico. but an act required BY internationa
Law, and already executed by several Euro
pean and American governments. No coun
try has the faculty to inquire into or qualif
|. the legitimacy or titles If smother govern
ment; and when Mexico has an administers
tion recognized and obeyed throughout ii
entire t. rritory, when the most perfect peac
reigns throughout II e same; and when, in
word, the country meets oil its compromise
both at home and abroad, the government
has the undeniable right to have itself rep
.ented among other nations, right whic
they cannot ignore without manifest viola
tion of international law.
From the same paper.
The aassilants and criminal escaped fror
he Jail Of Rio Grande Citv. Texas, havinI
been apprehended on Mexican Territory. tn
-upreme government IF the republic or
'ered them to be delivered to the extrad,
ion agent nf the United States, notwi,h
landing our government was not oblipe
there by ,reatv. The Mexican govern
: ment, on acting in sa'd manner, conforme
TO the practices and usages observed nv civi
''zed nations in similar cases but the gov
ernment of the United Sta'es was advise.
hat thi case should not go to establish III
precedent that Mexico was Obliged 10 deli
yer up her own citizens, for, not being Of
! lieed thereto by the treaty, she re,erved tn
liberty to do 90 or not, according to til
circumstances of each particular case. a
ways counting upon mutual reciprocit,
We understand that the executive has il
, formed the senate of all his acts in said del
} cate affairs and that, although no resolutio
, has been taken thereby As yet it Is the opi,
ion Of the state representatives that II
executive has directed all his proceeding
according to international Law, the laws
the country and the exigencies Of tn