The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-08-05
MEXICAN oUTRAGEs.

The Texans are getting their mad p in
dead earnest. Yesterday the Democratic
congressional convention n session at San
Antonio unanimously adopted series OF
very wArliks resolutions. iE which, among
other things. they dem anded chat we call
upon the president of the United States TO
take prompt action tor the release of Cut
ting, now imprisoned in Mexico, and TO
demand from the Mexican government the
punishment of the murdereTs of the.natur-
allied citizsD, A. Rasures, and full satisfAc-
ton and indemnity TO be paid his family
The Rasures outrage has produced In
tense excitement throughout Texas, and
the probabilities are that If some action lie
not soon taken by the general government
that the Texans with their natural hatred
of the "greasers'' intensified by the late
overlooking and insulting manners of the
latter, may take matters In their own
hands, and by attempted retaliation bring
on conflict for which Mexico is SEEM
ingly very anxious gipg by the mill
tAry preparations made. at that point on
the border and her c6saentration of troops
at that place.
And the sooner bluadAed or something
else that will arouse 4, Rericans enoagh
to defend the outraged ri pts OF her citi-
zens. Is INDUCED In, the bitter. Why, al
the present moment American cIIizsns In
the little. quarrslsome, revolutionary,
half-cIvillz ID and wholly despotic, so
called republic of Mexico, are not only
afraid to own that they are citizens OF the
greatest nation on earth, but are ashamed
to do so, because Of the insults heaped on
them with impuniiy; and SO they prefer
70 claim TO be EJglishman, we'll knowing
that none dare do injustice to the hum
blest subject Of her Briuanic majesty with.
out answering for it.
Were a subject of the British empire
In the place of Cutting, no mater what
he was or had been, so long as he was
entitled to the protection of the English
flag, he would be released Immediately
or there would be trouble. More than
once has the British feet been sent to
lombard the palace walls about the earl
of some eastern despot for q slighter in.
suit than this to Briton's pride. And
this Is as II should be.
The sooner the United States follows
In the footsteps of her mother IN this
mater. just thst Ruch sooner will ouI
citizens take pride In boasting of being
Americans. But jnst SO long as we allow
every little one-horse government to pluck
with impuuity the tail of our eagle, Just
so long will 1t be a by-word and re-
proach IN foreign countries TO be an
American.
The RaSures case Will pro baby serve to
at least call public attention to q peculiar
provision In the extrsdition treaty with
Mexico. Under other treaties a fugitive
criminal C .nuot be surrendered to a for.
elgn power without the authority of the
president of the United States, But the
Mexican treaty, made in 1861, provides
that sin the case OF crimes committed II
the frontier states or territories" the sur
render may be made by ''the chief civil
authority thereof, or such civil or judicial
authority OF the districts or counties Dor
dering on the frontier as may be for this
purpose duly authorized by the said chief
| civil authority of the said frontier state
| or territories" That is, the surrende
may be m4de bS = county Judge.