Show wrilon coir fr ilia thi all SIT T lat it tilro HOW MEXICO WAS CIVILIZED A ferij pir JAY avirt c TIBB the history of the mexican empire or rather Napo napoleon leba a attempt to establish one ho has satiny pages page of di df atrocities per on both sides ides during daring the contest but of 0 all the adventurers adventure ra who participated in that war whether for lame or personal gain none prove proad a greater terror or geourge to tho the van di distie of r mexico than col donial frenchman decorated with me ala of honor and who held tho the rank rani and title of general having been previously associated with the plundering dering of the iho palace of 0 peking by the french his hia name became no notorious dorious from the ilia mean a aon I 1 part he took in ID that graceful affair and which finally led to his hia from the french service bertice the war in mexico pr presented es eneeda field fiela for in il uch ch I 1 a character lie he 9 e embarked embar led for mexico and upon apon at r riving rang there here at once proceeded to or glaire the imperial mexican contra guerrilla at its head bead I 1 lie ht created terror god and consternation to the inhabitants wherever his hia operations operation extended this guerrilla band consisted auns cuns isted of d a col conglomeration of 0 frenchmen mex mei icing icons arjo sad aad degrees neg roca ia I a word th the C scam and or humanity made up a band of cute cut threats tile the lile like or of which hoa has not been seen or heard of on this continent dupins iron domination and rigid discipline held beld this thia horde in tolerable subjection and it served as aa officially announced to 11 pacify the land violation of orders or conduct in tile tho least prejudicial to discipline WM was punished by L instant death 31 murdering ur sur C og and klun plundering dering were permitted w he never circuns lances required dupas a i only was leas very in gular lan emal I 1 blacut black piercing eyes hilj low yet broad closely croal coopt iron grey hair fair ong white heard beard ilia his hea head rested on out read broad shoulders and IB his stature was waa imposing hiis if body spite of age and hardship was waa yet jet supple and elastic claa ic wil very ry r partial arthall to fine horses gorgo gorge 1 oua oils vun uniform ifo rm and fidalei profusely ornamented with gold and silver robbed from the unfortunate inhabitants lie had affection only for gold and blood to hang or chuman buman ft being always proved a task of pleasure to him if perchance a frenchmen J the district even a natural d dah jtb the whole population had to atone for it by heavy contributions of money which when collected found its yv tv intia hll M vat cc to ralle the amount required red the place wa WM pillaged and ba barned to ill hie ground one day dupin stir prisca an old lady and her daughter who were carrying each a package he ordered I 1 them era to allow pro proved veato to be clothing jot the acera of the liberal banac the mon coldly ordered the unfortunate ladies to lo be banged to the nearest tree but it was in ia tamaulipas that this ibis fiend in human form ravaged most of ou lis his march thither he stopped at a personage this ibis parson lie had lipen pen informed sympathized with and aided the Li berall papin suspected that ihal arms were not betray abis PY by we woid if 01 i looks lie ile of a good dinner at the parson a invitation and chatted freely on different subjects the aaroon entertained his guest to tile best at ot his ability and did aid not dream that during tile diato der the cloute w nag being search ed ad from garret to lo cellar just AS 3 the dessert was being IJu pins adjutant reported ing vienes pre been thoroughly searched arched but no na armo hail bad been found but thata that ai peon siave had for a promised reward jia dia tile feet fact lb that t arms anns were hidden tiodor the floor of oatlie the dining room baloon the cura did not nol understand I 1 reach toil and cupic did nothing to awaken him suspicion iio quietly I 1 ordered the ilia adjutant to lave tile tha wi ser of the Pardo olloe the io informer former lunged hanged to lo the trees treca of of file ahe garden alter after dione dinner r dupin arose and nl stamped his hia oa an tho the floor tie though to io ehrke the dust from bij baij boo boott and lo 10 it sounded bounded bollow beneath per oper awil by god cried the monet in onster cr ilia his glaring glaring eyes transfixing the cum cir you have v e here a very curious floor at the lae same time draw bog a large knife from lia his bootleg boot leg and inserting it through tile tho joints of the parson al decalli ah tripon scoundrel yelled P feho a on tied that the point n of tho afo L la a cone a in contact with wilb iton iron to lie and W pay your lajerel alita ay erml eight or ten contra gu guerrillas guerillas erillas into the room ron bound still anil gagged I 1 the he terrified anra adl him tion t loa that lie le mint might obnere lle ex cx or the dining saloon the fabor was torn vp lip bof taij I 1 turc sure enough a ev e I 1 muskets maali elii anti oil were acie fo foaud u n dl the hapless man wu was bound more inore ilia and anil and chilly rise lh build ing set on the contra resumed ill march shortly after the horrible deett re after okd ate d abe lote he be ret cliel the seaport of lipat la iti i a twinkling ill all the nuin main leading into tile towa were bro blockaded mi end a heavy 1 contribution laid on the population in initha I 1 the filet tilaco lupia caused diligent boarch to 4 V le mailo made for drio darin icalan ri 0 a young author au alii anil an n c re rc put licin vrho Ww ever for fat almair Ll mair was fu absent at a t the time dupin thereupon published an said edict to th the effial that all 11 hing havins in thir their possession money gooda or r moods di property belon belonging do dg 1 to balandrano Bal andrino were to report the time lame rt t his hi headquarters non com compliance with the iho edict would bo be punished with death lie ile then set get in flames ill fill the buildings mind and destroyed all ail the property ile belonging englif to tile the young republican r seven even or fight eight young men whom jhb dapin suspected of 0 having hating participated participate ansi in in the early part of if the war aint against intervention he caused to be arrested and banged to the lamp posts in the principal streets of tile town aa a warning g precedent re celent to i til ill era thus thua mexico was afas being bein 9 civilized a a french style fulp emperor for maximillian Maii millian bevia arao griot ed a dabill tin la audience jie he loathed the very name or of the bloodstained blood stained monster in ilia spring oi pa pin left mexico he saw the Sout souther bers C collapse and nd expected in an early termination of the french occupation lot of mexico he be therefore him hl B ill gotten booty in safety in good time and when in 1866 the men or tile old reaction returned retarn cd to mexico medico to perform tb the a closing scene of intervention in tho the la last st act of the ilia bloody drama dapin once more api pi geared this time as a mexican gen effal lie dil did not however dowewe display as aa much energy as a when chief of the contra guerrillas guerillas gu ue erillas rillas hut but was very cautious ious in all lin its operations rations or at the e end d of the austrian troops under hiron baron found themselves surrounded and besieged in jalapa by a numerically superior eo force of the liberals liberal commanded by gen alatorre dapin hood no more than right eight miles from jalapa at sao san andres Anil res with one thousand thon sand men A movement on his part towards jalapa would have hate been sufficient to la raise the siege or at i least to i weaken the investing lines linea so much that the could have cut their ival way iiii ull and vainly hoping and waiting fur for relief much precious iu tim timo 0 was I st the native dative troops no longer clothed provisioned provision edI and paid d lost faith in tile the cause and deserted in alarming numbers to the enemy messenger bless e a erli sent by the lie austrian austria baron met with no encouragement whether her dupin acted in accor accordance d an cc with instructions instruction from Af arshal Ra zaino who it seem left the imperial troops to their fata fat lie he did so on his own account is not lut but certain it is ia dupin did not movi move from san andres andrea but pillaged and plundered the in id his hia vicinity and not until new flews of tie the capitta capitulation lation of the ilia A Ana triana had bad relic reached I 1 d him did lie he movi move toward jal ap apa A sh si iorii ct 11 1 that hat fell into their hands hande as reprisals dupin however eluded the avenging avenging I 1 nemat u men distinguished for cruelty and fiendish Cen dish atrocities perpetrated oni ni women an and children are arc generally in mornen moment ts of danger as aa as all the days of their glory they were arrogant I 1 anil unmerciful dapin nal n n hi prosperous abys often r cd do youl you know wily I 1 thus a col with this thin degraded mexican because it is betta to kill two or mort more innocent than to permit one no guilty to f with this feint being male made of course too late and nd con brov ing ineffectual he be that ability from himself during the last ln l operations operal iona of the french the object ot of which WM was to la facilitate tle ilia did graceful r I 1 ce ful p to vera cruz lo 10 rutn rupio dupla was wa kept busy on the iho I 1 flanks of the concentrating army and was wai frequently attacked by republican r caring to rall into the ike hands handa of tho the enemy he ha i i showed great timidity in ID leading hia big troops and even een deserted them on several oc cc cautions cat ions I 1 imagining b a vc al position posit ioD on n the breast or of this be icing blazed the cro acroca croca of the legion of honor mail add the inevitable evitable iD mexican order of guadaloupe Guada loupo since then these distinctions have lost to honest men their with the last amt or of the french soldiers this Jis guar an the mexicans C called him d c parti A |