The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-01-10

i On arriving at Queretaro, Santa Anna fount
that. although the military authorities were pro
fessedy in his favor, yet the unto departmental hat
pronounced for the initiative OF Jalsco. There
fore. he made known to the members that il they
did not pronounce in his favor he would send them
prisoners to Perote They refused; and three oil
them were Immediately arrested oy his order, and
sent off under strong guard in the direction oi
! Mexico and Perote
When the report Of these proceedings reached
Mexico, the Congress Immediately summoned be-
fore it the ministers Of war and of government, to
know whether they had authorized General Santa
Anna to mprson the members ofthe junta depart
mental Qucretaro.
This subject occupied the chambers on the 10Th
and 30th Of November; and their attitude had now
become so menacing that the President ddmterim,
Canalizo (after consultation with Santa Anna
took the Eighhanded step of deciding to close the
session of Congress by force, and declare Santa
Anna dictator Of the republic.
| Accordingly, on repairing to the palace on the
lst of December, the members found the doors shut
against them and guarded BY soldiers; and on the
I'd appeared the proclamation Of Canalizo, as Pres
dento INFERNO. declaring the chamber dissolved in
defnately, and comforting all the powers ofgovern
ment, legislative as well as executive on Santa
Anna, as Presdento proprietario, the same TO be
exercised by Canalizo as PresideDto INFERNO until
otherwise ordered by Santa Anna.
For some days this forcble demolition Of the
constitutional government by the creatures of San
ia Anna remained without producing any apparent
effect in Mexico But on the very day when the
news reached Puebla, General Inclan, command
ant general of that department, in concert with the
civil authority, pronounced against Santa Anna;
and in few days ION the 6h) the garrison and
people Of HexIco rose against the government;
imprisoned Canalizo aud his ministers; Congress
rcassembled the president OF the council of govern
ment, General Herrera, assumed the exercise Of
the functions of President according to the consti
tuition; and new ministers were appointed the next
day, whose authority was Immediately acknowl-
edged in Vera Cruz.
the latest dates from Vera Cruz December
l2th) affairs stood thus:
The departments of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco,
Zacatecas and Aguascalientes were in state of
revolution, and in military possession of General
Paroles.
General Santa Anna (wIth Cortazar) had mill
tary possession Of the departments Of Guanajuato
and Queretaro.
Santa Annals President i,terino, Canaizo, and
his ministers, were imprisoned in Mexico. Con-
grcss had reassembled. and a temporary consttu-
tional government was installed there, composed
as follows, viz;
General Jose Joaquin de Herrera, President of
the Council of Government, charged temporarily
with the supreme executive authority.
d. Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Minister of Foreign
Relations, State, and Police
D. Mariana Riva PaIacios, Minister of Justice,
Public Instruction, and Industry.
D. Pedro ]. Echeverria, Minister of Finance.
d. Pedro Garcia Conde, Minister of War.
And it was already known that the departments
of Pueba and Vera Cruz had declared their adhe.
sion to the provisional government; and there is no
doubt that the most of the other departments will
also support the Congress.
Meanwhile, Santa Anna is constitutional Presi-
dent oi the republic, but unconstitutionay in COM
mand of the troops employed against Paredes.-
The new Minister of War has ordered him to give
up his command.
If he refuses, he becomes undoubtedly rebel
and traitor, because the new provinci al govern
ment in Mexico is constitutionally constituted. If
he consents he ceases to have any troops for b is
support: lie is placed at the mercy of his enemies.
His position is now an extremely critical one.
therefore. Every thing depends Oh whether his
troops adhere TO him against the Congress and the
constitutional government II they do, he becomes
the military dictator Of the country.
Reports were current at Vera Cruz that part of
his troops had already proclaimed him dictator, and
that another part had declared against him; but
upon this point no information In authentic form
had reached the public ear.
If any sufficient portion of troops adhere to him,
TO enable him to continue the war, still he sur
rounded with difficulties, being in the very heart
of the republic, with Jalsco aud its concurrent de-
partments to the Pacific against him on the one
hand and Mexico, with its concurrent departments
to the Gulf, against him on the other hand.
He may recover himself by some new turn in the
wheel OF fortune, and resume his place as the
sttutional President p,oprieiario of the republic;
but this is hardly probable. the public sentiment
is almost unanimous against him in nearly all the
departments.
Itseems more likely that he will have to yield to
the storm; and, if not deprived of his life. he may
escape to the United States by sudden march on
Tampico or TO South America by way of the Pa
cific.
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