Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-30

elected to the Presidency, Santa Anna again
emerged from his obscurity, and raised the ban
ner of revolt in favor of Guerrero. In this rev.
dictionary attempt he manifested very great en-
ergy and courage. He was, however, finally
compelled to yield to the superior numbers of
the government troops Santa Anna fled, appa-
rently an utterly ruined man, to the mountains
of GaXaca. There he was Just commencing in
those untamed wilds, the dreadful career of pov-
erty and suffering through which Victoria had
passed, when the unexpected success of Guer-
reros party IN another section of the country,
drove Pedraza from the region, and Guerrero
was declared President of the republic. Santa
Anna was Immediately called from the Businesses
where he had taken refuge, and appointed to the
command of the very army which had been pur-
suing him, and was also constituted Governor of
Vera Cruz. And upon the Inauguration of
Guerrero into Office Santa Anna was appointed
commander-in-chief of the army of Mexico
In the ensuing summer, the King of Spain
sent an army of four thousand to attempt the
reconquest of Mexico, that it might again be
brought under the dominion of the Spanish
crown. In July, 1929, Barradas, the Spanish
General, with his army, landed near Tampico.
Santa Anna Immediately collected a force of
seven hundred men, and crossed the Gulf in
open boats, sklllfully avoiding the Spanish crus-
ers, and prepared with his feeble force to meet
the invaders. Night after night, with uncon-
querable perseverance, he attacked the Span
ards, till the Spanish General capituated sur
rendering all his arms and munitions of war
In this expedition Santa Anna displayed in the
highest degree the qualities of bravery and pru-
dence
As Santa Anna was reposing in the enjoyment
of laures obtained in this decisive victory, a
new revolution took place in Inflated Mexico
the President Guerrero was driven from office
and Santa Anna was again constrained to retire
to the secluslon OF his estate as private citl
} zen.
After remaining for some time in obscurity
Santa Anna is again seen heading a revolution
against Bustamente, who had seated himself il
} the Presidential char from which Guerrero hat
been expelled. With four or five hundred men
such as he could hastily assemble from the vicin
ity of his estates, he fearlessly advanced to thu
capital, where Bustamente was in the command
: Of eighty thousand men. The enterprise wa
: considered as perfectly audacious, but it was en-
tlreIy successful, and in few days Bustament
r was shorn of his power, and was in exile San
e ia Anna found himself, by this new revolution
of the political Wheel again at the top, and il
t a higher position than ever before. He wa
d invested with absolute power Says Wadd
d Thompson, whose candor and means of info
II nation no one can doubt, l." / must say, that
/ the hundreds of laws which were dictated b
IS Santa Anna during that time, | think all war
is wise and necessary And it should redoun
= tO his lastiuu homer that surrounded &c no w.
e by faction, intrigue and enemies, who have sine
l. oyerthrown him, in no single instance was ar
9 man punished for a political offence. Very fe
l. dctators in possession of absolute power for Il
n same length of tme and surrounded by the san
IN circumstances can say as much. The read
III will at least, agree that he is not the sanguina
n monster which some have supposed him to be
b. To be coRtinUed