Year: 1867

ORR HERALD. TUEoDA


FAN of Qseresars aximnias 20 be sAos.
BY telegram we have the most startling news
from Tie Rio Grande. On the 10Th instant the


imperial line Of works at Queretaro was pene-


trsted, the convent of La Cruz captured, and


the garrison of the city, escaping to the Cerro
de la Campana, was, with all the generals and


Maximilian at their head, forced to surrender.
The Soms5ru do zwuyosa the official journal
published at San Luis Potosi, the present head
quarters Of the liberal government, states that
orders were immediately forwarded 10 General
Escobedo 70 shoot Maximilian and his generals.
The next news we receive may be that the
Archduke is no more.


The terrible consequences that may srise
from this desperate act on the part Of the
Mexican government cannot well be estimated
to their full extent In extending our moral
support to Mexico, we have, to certain degree.
become responsible fsr the acts which the
Mexicans commit in the restoration u the
republic. II Is IA tiis. light that Europe looks
upon us, and these are the demands which
foreign nations in moral sense make upon
u.s. We must meet them. We must respect
this demand upon as. Mexico must be told
that we cannot tolerate this wholesale slaughter,
not even on the plea Of retaliation for the
murdcroas work Of Macmillan. II is time the
bloody annals Of Mexican warfare were de-
corased with . page Of peace and mercy; and
il is our duty to see that II is done. Mexico is
in contact with us, and from us should learn
mercy. She is our neighbor, and from us should
learn republcanism. She pretends TO write
history on the same page with us; but she cannot
be permitted any longer to write it in blood.
The whole execration of the civilized world
will be called down upon her and her repub-
licanism for this act Of fancied retaliation.
The necessity for il no longer existed; for Maxi
liam no longer had the power TO enforce his
decree Of 1864 against the liberals, and there
fore revenge, not retaliation, has been the
incentive in the present shooting.


In Europe the consequences Of this murder
will call forth feeling Of indignation far greater
even than in the United States, through which
theysee the deed reflected. To Louis Napoleon
this event will be . rude blow; for all the
crowned heads will throw upon his throne
the whole blame of the unfortunate expedition
and it's still more unfortunate results. The
terrible scathing which the opposition in the
French Legislature will have an opportunity to
pour out against the government will again
stir the revolutionary fires of that country,
while the Austrian throne, already embittered
by the base desertion of their prince by the
French Emperor, will not fail in its enmity
towards him to prove q thorn in his side. The
letter Of Porfirio DiaE. which we published
yesterday, proves, too, that the French Emperor
not only basely deserted Macmillan in an
enterprise where he had sworn to uphold him,
but that Bazaine, upon his evacuation Of Mexico,
even offered to sell large quantities Of muni-
tions of war to the liberal government, which
they went to Mexico to overthrow, and
against which the Prince whom they had intro
duced into the country was still waging war;
Thus this Mexican tragedy still trails its bloody
form before the world; and each act, more
bloody than the preceding, calls loudly for a
strong hand to stay the tide. Imperialists and
liberals, bent on mutual destruction, hll the
history Of the New World with tales of horror
which have rarely been equalled even in the
blackest pages of the history of the middle
ages. Another sanguinary page like this, and
the people Of the United States will demand that
Mexico be blotted from the list Of nations, and
the memory Of her people buried SO deep under
the tread Of the Anglo-Saxon race that no pen
can rake up the black events of Mexican
history with which to curse the progress of
the nineteenth century.


Proposed sale Of the Miansonomoh and Other
Iron-Clads to the Gar or Russia.
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