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 And as a matter of course, there always will remain, without a satisfactory explanation, the imcomprehensibleincomprehensible [sic] fact that this immense majority, formed by partisans of the Empire, as it was affirmed in Europe, having, as it had, the support of the French army and the sound part of the country, would have permitted that a handful of bandits, demagogues or men of that stamp, could cause the death of the so-called monarch in the Cerro de las Campanas, re-establishing immediately the republican institutions which the said majority had vainly attempted to destroy.

The unjust accusations against Juarez will be repeated; the calumnies intended to stain his historic reputation and even his personal honor, will become multiplied; but all this will be perfectly useless, and moreover, all will produce the contrary effect, since the glory of the illustiousillustrous [sic] departed will be so much the greater, as the attacks of his enemies are unmerited and passionate.

Let them insult as they will the extraordinary man who sleeps the eternal sleep of death in the pantheon of San Fernando, and who there awaits the judgement of History and the sentence of posterity; they will not succeed, by this means, in overthrowing the venerated institutions which form the political creed of the great liberal party.

Abhor, hate, curse Juarez, as much as you will; you have the right to do so, and you do well, you who abhor the Republic, who hate the Constitution and who curse the Reform.

Copy that which Cesar Cantú has writenwritten [sic], if it will please you; cite the authority of a Saldapenna in