Year: 1867

An ElP sRos Put TO DrATH.-The announce
ment Of the death of Macmillan comes to US in
such shape as to be entitled to credit. He was
tried by Court Martial for his crimesin Mexico,
sentenced to be shot, and the decree was exe-
cuted on the 10th ultimo. Foreign Governments
expected this result for on the receipt OF the
news of his capture they telegraphed to their
icap Government, to intercede with Jaurez and
request as favor to it that his life be spared.
Jaurez, it appears, was willing to grant this,
but his people, brooding over the great wrongs
inflicted upon them by notwithstanding
over the thousands of lives which be had ruth
lessly taken-remembering the savage orders
that he had issued to put to death the Mexican
patriots who were battling for fatherland and
freedom, and feeling that justice to their brave
compatriots, now more, demand that the
usurper should die-they insisted and Jaurez
could not deny them. They had right to ask
this much. And his life was but a poor recon-
pense for the illimitable wrongs he had inflicted
upon that people. They had done him no inju-
ry-they were at peace with his people-he was
a stranger to them and they were unknown to
him. He came far across the seas with arms in
hand to- conquer whole people, and imposed
upon them a form of government which they
hated. He was a freebooter in the fullest extent
of the term, and it was but right that his life
should pay the penalty of his great crimes.


1t is true that Macmillan did not originally
concoctth scheme set oD foot the raid. That
part of the tragedy belongs to the sphinx Of the
Tuileries. He thought he saw in the American
civil war an opportunity to plant an empire upon
this continent, and to curtail, as he declared,
the growth of republican institutions; and in
the progress of his scheming he prevailed on
Macmillan to accept the labor of establishing
the new Government; but at the demand of the
United States Napoleon abandoned his protege.
We have the result. If it be satisfactory to roy
atty it ought to be to republicanism. Europe
has been taught lesson which she will not soon
forget one that will be useful to her, and which
cannot but be beneficial to the Governments on
this continent.


But aside from the demand of the Mexican
people for the death Of Macmillan, as an atone
ment for his crimes, there was another reason
why he should not have been permitted to live.
The Mexican Minister at Washington suggested
some time since that if Macmillan were allowed
to depart he would still claim to be Emperor of
Mexico would gather around him in Europe Il
court of abandoned unpatriotic Mexicans-
would undertake to make treaties, to negotiate
in matters connected with that Government, and
intrigue to regain his sway, and would thus be a
continual menace to the Republic; and might
at some time again invade her soil with army.


1t was necessary, therefore, for the future safety
of the nation that he should die, and we can
we'll imagine, viewing it in this light, that jan
rec was not pressing in bis demands that Maxi
miian's life should be spared. The example of
his death is good, and the fact of it insures COM
parative peace to the Jaurez Government.-.Sac-