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E do not hesitate to do full justice to the Italian historian by declaring that, with his great learning and correct judgment, he could not have acted in bad faith when he wrote against Juarez, thus permitting himself to become a voluntary accomplice or instrument of ignoble passions. But it is important to state that Cesar Cantú. was a personal friend and professor of Maximilian; that the latter had conferred upon him honorary appointments and commissions in public instruction, and that therefore he was not in a position of complete independence to judge of Mexico and of Juarez with entire impartiality. In addition; it is not a secret that this historian belongs to the Conservative party of Europe, and that he has maintained his sympathy for the Pope and the Clergy, having even acted as Secretary to an Œcumenical Council. These were not, as we have said before, the most fitting conditions to judge impartially of Juarez, who in Mexico was the