Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-11-20

the other States, including the commentaries
generates, to conduct me a prisoner to AGA
pulco.
Fortunately these orders, dictated by ha-
tired the most concentrated, by an ignoble thirst
for vengence, by the most profound resent
ment, and, what is more criminal than all J, by
prior engagements which the head ofthe Mexi-
can Government had entered into with the
United States,* were rendered nugatory by the
good sense of the worthy chiefs who saw me
and who could have executed these orders, and
by those Sc .timents of Justice not yet extinct
among Mexicans, and by the honor excited by
the idea of converting them into the instru-
ments of despicable and unworthy PASSIONS
They refused with honest Indignation to exc
cute those orders, we'll knowing the shameless
tyranny in which they originated. 1t was no.
ferrous that the President of the Republic had
no authority to issue them, for it was expressly
forbidden by the Sd article of the decree OF
April 10th of this year, to impose penalties up
on Mexicans, Notwithstanding the design OF
the decree was to invest him with extraordina-
ry powers. 1t was an outrage, for it viola
ted the most sacred guarantees. / had not lost
my position as Mexican; was entitledto re-
turn freely to my country; there was no
legal resolution, no measure passed in regard
to me prohibiting my return. | was under the
protection of the laws, and these are the rea-
sons why those orders were disobeyed which
commanded my decentralization, my seizure and
imprisonment-orders directed against a man
who, oppressed with infirmaties and with af-
Fiction at seeing his country destroyed, her in
dependence and nationality threatened with
extinction sought to die upon her soul, and So
licited any place whatever amongst the ranks
of his countrymen TO accompany them to the
combat.
During this unjust persecution by the man
who has ruined Mexico and brought her to the
depth'of that abyss in which we now see her, ]
received repeated requests from military chiefs
to place myself at the head of the troops which
they commanded; but | constantly refused, SO
as not to afford to my enemy BY a division OF
the army an excuse by which he could palliate
or gloss over the disasters caused by his want
of skill and stupidity, by his total military in
capacity. Now that he has detached himself
from the direction of the Government by aban-
doning it, l await employment from the Gov
eminent which has succeeded him, should il be
deemed proper, and should ii be thought that
my services may be of any use. will never
accept any command unless it be by the order
of the Government.
Here, fellow-citizens, have / written in a
few words, with sincerity and good faith, the
history of my return to the Republic, of the
conduct which | observed upon my arrival
therein, and of the position which l now
maintain. Let calumny, hatred and malevo-
lence invent reports against me as they please,
my actions will constantly give the lie 10
them.
| desire that you would seriously fix your
attention upon the situation III which the coun-
try is placed. 1t demands vast efforts and sac
rifces. Its prostration is the fruit of divisions
and exacerbation of passions, of political ha-
tired, of rivalries and distrust, pushed to the
greatest extremes. Let us repudiate our errors,
lei. us detest our irregularities, and let the
school of misfortune make us cautious for the
future. Let not the lessons of experience be
lost upon us; let us not be blinded by illusions.
Let us apply remedy to the illsof the nation,
and recognizing its true necessities let us la
Dor together for its well-being, intrepidly: dri-
wing back the enemy who has penetrated to
the heart of the country, that so we may pre-
vent the humiliation and humiliation of our
country.
MARIANA PAREDES Y ARRILLAGA.
TuldncingO, Sent. 20, 1877.