Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-10-13
Manifesto CT Santa ARGa-His Views cHa
Policy.


Curiosity has been excited relative to
Santa Anna address to his countrymen,
onthe occasion of his return to Mexico
Prepared with caution, under the advice
OF his friends at Havanna,, this document
could not fail TO be an able one, not only
IN lis comments upon The existing condi-
ton OF that country; but in its exposition
of the policy which the general intends
TO adopt for the future management ofthe
foreign and domestic relations o. people
who have again called him TO helm of
state. 1t is dated at Vera Cruz, August
18th, the day after his arrival, and is con-
denseditby the Washington Union en-
Monday ob;ained from the navy
department the only copy yet received in
this country, las follows:-Plain Dealer.
ale commences with sort of APOLOGY
for the part whcih he played subsequent
to 1884, in forcing strong central gov
ernmentiupon the country, which he ad-
mits did not result in its quiet or pros
perily, aud he attributes to the discomfort
of the people the failure to preserve the
province of Texas. He then briefly re,
views the conduct of those who have
successfully administered the govern
ment since his exile. The aggreessions
of the U. States were encouraged, he
says, by the cabinet of Gen. Herrera.
Paredes, he says, had always been the
enemy ofany popular representative gov
eminent; when b. heard of his project
ed revolution at San Louis Potosi he
hoped that his opinions had changed;
but when he saw Parades' manifesto of
adhesion to the plan OF San Louis Pot
osi, he found it TO be rather diatribe
against the independence CT the notion,
than the patriotic address of a Mexican
general seeking in good faith a remedy
for the distresses of his country; and his
sinister designs were fully developed By
his act convoking congress, and by the
attempts to reconcile the people to the
idea of a monarchy and foreign prince.
He denounces and discusses at leangth
the proposal for a monarchical form of
government, which he considers absurd
and impracticablc. He accuses those
in favor of monarchy ofhaving, almost
in direct manner, provoked the United
States to take possession of Texas, and
advance an army into the interior of
Mexico, inorder that the nation might
be reduced to the alternative of submit.
ting to Anglo-Amefican domination or
adopting a monarchical form of govern
ment. 1t was with this view, he says,
that in 1914, and 1915, when they had
hecontrol in congress, they refused the
aid which the existing administration
asked for the purpose of defending the in.
legrity of the national territory, He
makes no direct or earnest profession of
an intention to prosecute the war againt
Uaited States. and does not speak of
this country in the usualterms of .yilifca-
ton. He concludes. by disclaiming any
desire or intention to exercise dictatorial
power, and therefore proposes that the
congress about to be assembled, shall
be empowered to regulate all branches
Of the administration of the. government,
and that the provisional executive be en-
tirely under its controle. He also recon.
n1eiids that, until new constitution be
proclaimed, the constitution of 1895 be
adopted for the internal administration
of the departments. ..aa !