Order from the Minister of War against Negrete and Aurellano Rivera., May 18, 1868

Order from the Minister of War against Negrete and Aurellano Rivera.

Ministry of State and the Department of War and Marine–Section First–Circular.

The ex-General Don Miguel Negrete, after having deserted the defense of the national independence, withdrawing to foreign parts became a traitor to his country, placing himself at the service of Maximilian.

As a consequence of his evil conduct he had no place in the army. When the latter acquired its glorious triumph, and saved the independence and the republican institutions of the country, he remained a fugitive; and humiliated by his bad conduct, and awaiting only to find in a disturbance of the public order the means by which his crimes should remain without punishment, he sought proselytes in order to raise whatever flag if it was only the flag of rebellion. The only aid upon which he has been able to count, after a year of continuous effort, has been the public robbers of the highway. Of these he has made himself a chief, and leading a company of bandits, as has appeared in the official reports that have been published, he has been already twice attacked and beaten by the forces of the government, and completely put to rout.

The citizen President of the republic, animated by the desire to re-establish peace and the public order, and to extend to society the security that it merits, and which is so necessary to repair the great suffering it has experienced during the war, has thought proper to direct that all the authorities and the forces of the nation be required to apprehend Miguel Negrete and his accomplices wherever they may present themselves, in the understanding that any dissimulation or tolerance that may be used in this connection will make said authorities or forces responsible as co-operators and protectors of the crime of rebellion.