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OUR duty is done.
We do not even remotely imagine that the documents which we have published, in other words, the true statements of the facts, will be enough to silence for ever the intemperate vociferations that, from time to time, are launched against Juarez by his political enemies.
They will continue to say, however absurd it may appear, that Juarez sold a part of the national territory to the Americans.
They will repeat that Juarez, for a money consideration, delivered to the Emperor of Austria the bloody corpse of his unfortunate brother.
They will repeat even to satiety that which so often has been said, that Juarez, as the leader of a demagogic minority, tyrannically imposed his will without having had, at any time, the support of the Nation, since the Nation, in its great majority, was Imperialist and gladly had accepted a foreign monarch sent by Luis Napoleon as a token of his benevolence.
