Show CUTTING RELEASED A K Cutting was released cstcrday by order of the Mexican Court that con vlctcd him and with tho American con sill and Homo friendscamo over tire border bor-der into tho United States Our dispatches dis-patches give IL view of a little side inlay nfletho release which plainly proves that Cutting was not seeking his release so much as10 was a general war on account ac-count of his arrest When In n public pub-lic place and surrounded bv tho Moxi ciii officers ho menacingly threatened the live principals m his arrest and trial nllll Raid ho would settle with them here alter Had airy Mexican done or said as much on United States soil all other things being equal to Cuttings case bo would have been immediately arrested for threats against life and punished > therefor The inglorious ending to tho Honsallonal arrest and trial kills all tho hopo Cutting bad of bcncfilllng my tire affair sun now bo wilt not bo a drawing card cither as a curiosity or lecturer Tho mam point at i ° sue however between be-tween tho United States and Mexico yet remains unsettled and in the event of our caso being made to lie agunst tho Mcicau Government we will be re duccd to tho pitiable spectacle ofn nation demanding mono for satisfaction of wrong from a bankuipt and weak neigh mar If Mr Bavard was right in his fiat then immediate release should follow nun not as foreshadowed in these columns col-umns some weeks ago wall till tho Mexicans Mex-icans had finished the legal work of their claim of extra territorial jurisdiction otsiy to ichovo themselves of responsibility responsibil-ity by releasing tho prisoner against whom all tire claims of their law mono enforced despite tire decision of our Stato Department As tire DLMOCIUT claimed in a recent issue tho outcome leaves Secretary 15aiirdin a poor si i a pa before tie cOllntry for in tire absence of Congress Con-gress ho could 1use his individual authority author-ity to compel at least a stay of proceedings proceed-ings in court until his envoy could have leached the ground and bo present at the trial The hole press of tho country is signally unanimous on the point that name one in autborit has blundered and will be nono tire less so until that blunder is traced home and this author relieved from office so that a like humiliating humil-iating speclaclolcannot again occur and tho United States Government bo mado to appear a part to it Cutting wilt bo swallowed up in tho whirl of everyday life but ho has furnibbed tho occasion for tins exhibition of singular lax methods meth-ods in tho State Department and for that reason nlono ho will alwaH bo remembered remem-bered Though a strict construction of tIns law will prove the affair legal yet tho harpies of the Republican press will hoist it into notoriety as a campaign doe nment ind out of it will come untold trouble to the Democratic part |