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

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before them the Manifesto of Gen. PAREDEs, an
ex-President of Mexico, and one whom the Pic
ayune pronounces probably the best soldier Of
the Republic, and in view ofthose best able to
to judge, an honest man and patriot" 1t will
| be perused with interest.
Manifesto of Gen. Mariana Paroles ArriI-
laga to his tellOl1-citizenS.
| COuntrymen-The force of circumstances
and events constrained me to absent myself
from my family and to leave my country.
sought in Europe an exile, where | devoured
in silence the grief which l suffered as a father
and citizen-severe is the task of sitting the
feelings so natural under such circumstances
Notwithstanding, nothing so depressed my
spirits, nothing so preyed upon my heart, as
the impossibility of giving to my country the
same services which rendered her in the hap
pier days of her ependence-fghting for and
| pouring out my blood.
! This exile, and the constrained inacton to
which l was condemned, were to me a most
costly sacrifice. But one single consideration
could have brought me to submit to it, the ne
cessity of deprlving my enemies of the pretext
that In any person an obstacle was presented to
the defence of the national territory the fate of
which caused me the most painful disquietude,
for foresaw the consequences; and the dan
ger was becoming constantly more imminent.
! 1t is easy to conceive the agony of such po-
sitiOn, and the anxiety in which | lived.
sought increasingly to take part in the current
OF events, but the distance rendered this i'm
possible; each day seemed to me an age. In
the meanwhile the most sinister rumors were
current IN Europe, which are ever the precur-
sors OF the great calamities that natiors endure;
the Republic was insulted, Inundated, abased !;
It's gratultous enemies and those who were i'll
disposed towards it, omitted nothing which
could injure it. Unhappily the events ofMon-
terey, the Angostura, Vera Cruz and Cerro Cor
do ensued to confirm those ominous portents,
and they increased my anxiety and my distress.
| saw with dread large portion of the terri
tory of the Republic in the power of the enc
my; the States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, New
Leon, Tamauiipas, New Mexico and the Cali
tornlas had been invaded a like fate had be-
fallen Vera Cruz the city and castle had been
occupied, and the battle of Cerro Gordo laid op-
en- the road to the capital and exposed the ma
ton to the gravest and most frightful conse-
quences. On every side the Republic was as
saulted; she was hemmed in by line of steel,
and the cause of justice succumbed in every en-
counter. Difference of opinion did not disap-
pear; civil war again presented itself, and the
I blood shed in the combats with the foreign foe
was not sufficient to extinguish civil dissen-
sions.
Such a state of affairs was terrible, for who
could look with Indifference upon caamities
like these, following one upon the other? Who
could think upon the conflictand the difficulties
in which the country was involved without
feeling a vehement desire to sacrifice himselfin
her defence? DO you suppose that citizen in
whose breast had once burned the purest patri-
otism, could look with frigid egotism upon such
calamities? Could a soldier, pusilanimous and
cowardly though he were, remain an uncon-
cerned spectator, far from the scene and the
places where the conflict was going on for a
cause so just and interests so sacred? Could he
watch unmoved the audacious strides which the
the invader is making in his work of iniquity?
Misfortune never has overwhelmed my soul;
but my PROSTATE country, could not survive
calamities like these. | declare to you with all
sincerity, hesitated not a moment, and fol-
lowed the impulses of my heart, inspired by
patriotism pure and free from personal specu-
ations, | embraced the resolution ofcoming to
join my efforts with yours in favor of our coun-
try. | reflected not that | had enemies among
my countrymen, for had been the enemy of
none; lnever considered that | should become
the mark Of the poisonous shafts of calumny
for | was satisfied with the purity of my inten-
tons; all within me was truth. / came to offer
my services TO a country which saw me in the
ranks Of her glorious independence, and if
necessary, to sacrifice myself for her. / har-
bored neither suspicious nor fears, neither re-
sentiments nor enmities. | sought to unite my
efforts to those of her other sons again to pre-
sent the country to the world in an attitude of
dignity and to command respect. came not
} to arouse nor TO infame the passions of Mexi-
) cans against Mexicans, nor to excite recollec
lions painful for the country. But one thought
occupied me, and that was that there was still
toot-hold left from which to fight, still space
where the war might yet be waged and that
: the soil moistened with the blood of so many
martyrs might again become the theatre Of
lofty prowess in which valor and patriotism
5 could obtain their deserved reward.
e Occupied exclusively with this idea, gave
) notice to the Government of my determination
: from Paris, under date of the 18th June last
J made with all haste my preparation for the
: voyage, and embarked for Southampton on the
t July packet. | reached Vera Cruz the l4th o
+ August, and as | learned in Havana that the
1 same packet would convey to the Governor O
i Vera Cruz intelligence of my coming, was the
: first to leap ashore, and changing my dress
:, had the good fortune to escape from the city
: incognito, before the commandant of the enemy
/ had time to take measures, consequent upon tn,
II betrayal of me by an unworthy man who ha(
: recognised me.
S The precautions had taken and the promp
;, titude with which | acted saved me, for fiv,
; minutes had not elapsed before the gates of The