Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-23
A SCRAP OF HISTORY
Recalled by the Case of the Saliva
dorean General Ezeta.
He win Not he Surrendered Until There
Is n Government Established That
VIII Give Him Fair Trial
by q Legal Tribunal.
THE CASE OF GEN. EzETA.

WASHINGTON, June l9.--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
ont from Mexico city that President
Diaz has accedcd to the request of Don
Carlos Ezeta, ex-president of Salvador.
and had irterceded with President
Cleveland in behalf of his brother,
Gen. Antonio Ezeta, now refugee on
board the
UNITED STATES MAN-OF-wAR BENNING-
TON, t'sAza .'s9s
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 in 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. Ezeta
and his fellow-rcfugees shall receive a
fair and impartial trial by 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
Archduke MaXimilian, it, at the same
time, desires distinctly to assure the
government of Mexico, that if con
trary policy should be deemed neces.
sary for the peace and welfare of the
country no complications with Euro
pean powers need be apprehended there
from"
THIS DISPATCH SEALED MAXIMILIAN's
DEATH WARRANT.
The only pretext upon which Presi
dent Juarez could have resisted the de-
mand of his army for Maximiliap's ex
ecution is that it would bring about
foreign complications. This only ex
cuse for clemency being removed, Max
imlian was shot.
Mr.. Stewards dispatch was shown by
President .Iuarez and Minister of jus
tice Iglesias both to Princess Salm
Salm (the wife of Maximilian's aide-dc
camp, and to the correspondent of the
New York Herald then in San Lui.
Potosi. 1t has
NEVER APPEARED IN ANY OFFICIAL PUB
LEGATION
Of diplomatic correspondence. Presi
dent Juarez, commenting upon it tt
Princess Salm-Salm, said: Il have either
to shoot Macmillan or be shot myself.
1t appears to be the purpose of the
United States to defer the surrender o
Gen. Ezeta until a contingency. such al
existed in Mexico in 1867. shall have
passed-that is to say until the presen,
ruler of Salvador shall have reached
such point that it will not he neces
sary to shoot Gen. Ezeta in order t.
avoid being shot himself.