Evening star., 1916-04-30
tiers touch our hearts:

These letters touch our hearts:
From Chapultepec. June 2e. 1854.
Carlotta wrote to her grandma, the
sanity Queen Marie-AmeIie of Bel
gium:
MY Well Beloved. Dear Grandmama:
When they represent this land as hav-
Ing violence done to its sentiments IL 10
not true. They have profound conf
dence in Max and hope everything
from him. The Mexicans are docile peo-
pie. and military revolutions are inn
possible because the MeNicans don't
like revolutions. They are intelligent
and desire progress. We are sure TO
succeed The land Is so beautiful II
makes me think of Italy. Max says
that nothing In the world is so beau
tiful as the view OF Chapultepec"
Then a few weeks later:
Dearest Grandmamma: They are
so good to us. Never did ! hear -
much hurrahing. even in dear Belgium.
We risk no shadow of danger They
love us. and We are sure to make them
prosperous. ] am so glad. The regen-
Grafton and happiness of a people are
well worth the trip
1t seemed right and natural to i'm
nocent Carlotta that President Juarez
should be abandoned by his most trust
ed lieutenants and forced to fee to
the solitudes of north Mexico. The re-
publican bands were pursued by Ba-
ment was fully organized.
Beloved Grandma" twrote Carlotta
from Mexico City May 8. 1850: Max
has chosen for foreign affairs an emil
nent Mexican statesman who possesses
the confidence of all parties. and We
often have at our table former func-
tionaries of Juarez. We are giving them
the first good government they ever
had. and the people understand ii. As
nobody ever loved them before. they
dc yan tU-
sion"
Shortly after she wrote that the
land was completely pacifed.' She
retoiced. above all. in Max's tsupposed)
popularity.
Max. respected and esteemed from
the first day. is adored at present.
Even the republican leaders say that.
while they are not yet monarchists.
they are 'Maximilianists. We have
just received three generals of Uraga
who fifteen days ago were in arms
against us.
Later in 1865 she imagines that the
"entire republican party" has rallied
to her Macmillan, who sis choosing
his cabinet from among their grand
est intelligences."
Best loved grandma. nothing equals
the enthusiasm and confidence of the
Mexican people for Max affirmed the
misguided Carlotta. IT am so happy!
Activity is good for us. We are too
young to remain idle. Yesterday Max
and l strolled in the Paseo de la Viga,
acclaimed by the hurrahs of the popu-
lace. In Europe We could not have
strolled like that without the police"
Alas, the dream did not endure!
Had it ever been more than a dream
of self-deception?
1t is not SUFFICIENT to be young, kind
hearted and idle to impose a European
empire on America.
A year late. on August Fl. 1866. Car
lotta, who had rushed in vain to Eu-
rope to implore the crowned heads to
save not the throne, but the life OF
her Maximilian. wrote this last letter
to her friend the Countess de Grunne:
Pray for me and for Mexico! I left
things over there still capable of being
arranged. But high wills on that side
of the Atlantic have decreed otherwise.
God will make US know his will
The relentless and astute old Indian.
President Juarez. would listen to no
pleas. Carlotta knew 1t. Soon that
sweet if misguided intelligence was
shipwrecked in the horrors of demen-
tia On June 10. 1867. IL was the trag-
edy of Queretaro.
America remains republican.
STERLING HEILIG.