Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23
A SCRAP OF HISTORY
Recalled by the Case of the Saliva
dorean General EZeta.
He WIN Not be Surrendered Until There
is a Government Established That
VIII Give Him Fair Trial
by Legal Tribunal
THE CASE OF GEN. EzErA.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-Neither the
state department, nor Mr.. Romero, the
Mexican minister in Washington, has
yet received the slightest confirmation
by wire or mail of the statements sent
out from Mexico city that President
Diaz has acceded to the request of Don
Carlos Ezeta, ex-president of Salvador.
and had intercetled with President
Cleveland in behalf of his brother,
Gen. Antonio Ezeta, now a refugee on
board the
UNITED STATES MAN-oF-wAR BENNING-
TON,
and whose surrender to the properly
constituted authorities of Salvador, it
is understood, has been directed by
President Cleveland under certain con
ditions. Those conditions, as already
mentioned III these dispatches, were
that there shall first be established a
permanent, recognized government in
Salvador, and, secondly, that guar
antees shall be given that Gen. Ezcta
and his fellow-refugees shall receive a
fair and impartial trial by a legally
organized tribunal.
BOTH ARE ON RECORD.
Both the United States and the repub-
lie of Mexico are on record as opposed
to foreign Intervention in the domestic
affairs of nations. When the Mex
lean Emperor Maximilian was betrayed
into the hands of the republican Gen.
Escobedo President Juarez, general-in-
chief, the emperor of Austria asked the
intervention OF President Johnson in
his brothers behalf. Mr.. Seward, then
secretary of state, transmitted that
dispatch to President Juarez in San
Luis Potosi,
WITH THIS SIGNIFICANT COMMENT:
"While the United States is willing
to express the hope that the republic
of Mexico may find it consistent with
public policy to comply with the re-
quest and to extend clemency to the
Archdul1e Maximilian, it, at the same
time. desires distinctly to ssure the
government OF Mexico, that if a CON
trary policy should be deemed neces-
sary tor the peace and welfare of the
country no complications with Euro
pean powers need be apprehended there
from"
THIS DISPATCH SEALED MAMMALIAN s
DEATH WARRANT.
The only pretext upon which Presi-
dent Juarez could have resisted the de-
mand of his army for Maximilian's ex-
ecution is that it would bring about
foreign complications. This only ex-
cuse for clemency being removed, Max
imilian was shot.
Mr. Stewards dispatch was shown by
President Juarez and Minister of JUS
tice Iglesias both to Princess Sa I'M
Salm (the wife of Maximilian's aide de-
camp. and to the correspondent of the
New York Herald then in San Luis
Potosi. 1t has
NEVER APPEARED IN ANY OFFICIAL PUB
LEGATION
of diplomatic correspondence. Presi-
dent JuareZ, commenting upon it to
Princess Salm-Salm, said: Il have either
to shoot MaXimilian or be shot myself. .
1t appears to be the purpose of the
United States to defer the surrender of
Gen. Ezeta until contingency, such as
existed in Mexico in 1867, shall have
passed-that is to say, until the present
ruler of Salvador shall have reached
such point that it will not be neces-
sary to shoot Gen. Ezeta in order to
avoid being shot himself.