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through ignorance, when they endorsed and propagated such absurd accusations?
We shall send this pamphlet to Europe printed in three languages, and then those writers will certainly have no excuse if, in the future editions of their works, they fail to relate these events impartially, in compliance with their duty as truthful writers.
That in Europe there has always been the greatest ignorance respecting the men and the affairs of this country, has been said by Don Jose Maria Luis Mora, in 1836, and repeated by Don Lorenzo Zavala in 1845. But this ignorance cannot hereafter be alleged in explanation of error, since the incontestable vouchers which we now insert have had so much publicity during many years past.
Let the Italian historian read what these vouchers say:
«Diario Oficial of the Supreme Government of the Republic. Volume I, number 21, Monday, September 9th 1867.— The mission of vice-Admiral Tegetthoff.—We publish below these lines all the official documents relative to the mission of vice-Admiral Tegetthoff, and to the various efforts which have been made with the Supreme Government to obtain its permission in order to remove the body of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian to Europe. These documents will show what from the beginning has been the idea of the Government, which has given to this matter only the importance it really merits. They also give the lie to the absurd and stupid commentaries of the foreign press, and at the same time to some hasty remarks on the part of the national press.»
«Telegram.—From Veracruz to Mexico.—Received in Mexico on the 26th of August 1867 at 7.29 P. M.—
