Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-11-18
ADDRESS OF PENA Y PENA.

We lay before our readers translation of
this important public document-the most i'm
portant as the author is classedamong the most
prominent candidates for the next Presidency
of Mexico.-N. o. Picayune.
The President of the Supreme Court of Jus
tice, IN the exercise of the Supreme Erecu-
the POlUer, to the Mericdn Nation:
MExIcANs!-Called upon to take charge of
the Government of the Republic, not by the
triumph of a party or of political opinion
nor by an election, which, although legal and
honorable, might revive a recollection Of our
dissensions, but by an express and conclusive
mandate of the fundamental character, | can
address you under the simple and exalted title
of the constitution. The case which has been
forseen by that document, and the imperious
urgency not to leave our country buried in the
profound abyss of anarchy demanded of me a
sacrifice superior to my health and my strength
and a compliance with duty which | could
not evade without rendering myself unworthy
of the esteem of my fellow citizens.
Rash and inconsiderate would have been
my resolution to seize the reins of the Su-
preme Government in moments so caamitous
and difficult had it been competent for me bv
any legal means to place the destiny of our I'M
fortunate country in ADLER hands. You are
aware of the state and circumstances in which
we find ourselves, and you cannot doubt that
the difficult service to which have resigned
myself, and ofwhich | may be the victim, have
been as necessary as the observance of the cath
which binds me as President of the Supreme
Court of Justice. And if truly lamentabe
reverses have invested me mOmentarily with
the Supreme Magistracy, also acknowledges
as a signal blessing of Providence, that it has
been bestowed on me by no cause or proceed
ing which could foment disunion among the
Mexican nation.
My Administration WILDE of short duration
and if the situation of the Republic were not
so critical, | should not have considered it de-
sirable to address you; but l must, however,
now make known to YOU, with the greatest
brevity-because nothing can be Indifferent in
the terrible crisis of the county-what will be
my ideas and feelings, and what the course
have determined to pursue in order to dis
charge with honor and with the appreciation of
my conscience the enormous burden which the
constitution places on nv shoulders. With
out any other character but that bestowed up
on me by the constitution for the exercise Of
public power, and accustomed as an old mag
istrate not TO look at the public good except
in the observance of the laws and justice, it
would be useless to assure youthat my govern
mcnt, with bad or good results, with opposi-
( ton or without it, with success or without it.,
Will never DC OllltI lildll Wv
eminent, subject in everything to the laws of
the Republic, without ever exceeding the pow
ers conferred on the Executive.
Neither the difficulties of our present posi-
ton nor the importance and transcendency OF
the pending internal or external questions, nor
armed rebellion, can ever make me deviate
from the path which have ever considered as
the only one capable of saving the nation; and
true to this purpose, the nation can confident
" depend upon it that the Government will
exercise with firmness the power bestowed up
on it by the constitution, and that it will new
er aim at that mistaken energy which can on
+ ly be exercised by violence and by the usurpa-
ton of other powers, and which nearly always
subverts established order, | shall respect these
other powers, and shall afford them all the
support and assistance they may require in the
discharge of exalted functions.
!, The States which at present form the Mex
lean Federation, and of whose common inter
ests the Supreme Government is the centre, will
contribute with their resources and their for
ces to make it respected, and will meet in re-
turn harmonious and perfect reciprocity. L
, cannot escape the penetration and patriotism
of their worthy authorities that every transgres
sion or overstepping of the just limits fixed by
the fundamental laws for each, would destroy
the last hope of order and nationality. | con
luiC YOU all anu uOuub lOl llldI YOU VII
hearken to me, that there may be one coopera
ton and one feelingin favor of those principle
which we ought to revere, and which are tn
best guaranty for a happy termination of TIL
stormy position in which wenow find ourselves
For the same reasons, and with equal justic,
my Administration will respect and protec
the rights and public interests of every class
= To attack any one would be to inhame farthe
I, our passions and torender our dissensiOns NOR
: dreadful Religion, its worship and its minis
: ters will be the object of my special protection
= When all conspires to our ruin, when it ap
: pears that no guaranty can be given for the Sc
: curlty OF the conservative principles on whicl
. the Mexican nation should reply-and whel
. every thing portends confusion, and genera
= disorder, feel more pleasure than | can ex
i press in announcing to you this my determin
. alton, whatever may be the dangers and pei
: lis to which ny Government may be involved
Without re 5enues, as they all have been de
: stroyed, and without public treasures-as ther
u u are none-an equitable and proportionable CO
u operation may, notwithstanding. furnish tn
necessary means for defraying the most indis
u pensable expenses. If in the short time durn
II which shall remain at the head of the nation
5, | could contribute towards the settlement
a of so important branch, (fnances,) the onl
y basis of my DEGREES and measures would
st that no class or any citizen should have t
n complain Of the slightest injustice. The sci
a. wants of the Government, whatever may b