Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-08-30
From the Baltimore Sun.
he Abdication OF santa Anna.


We published telegraphic despatch yesterday
announcing the abdcation of Santa Anna and his
departure for Havana, together with the fact that
General Carrera had been appointed Provisional
President of Mexico for six months. We give
some additional particulars to-day, from which it
will be seen that liberty Of the press has been
established in that unfortunate Republic, and that
Santa Anna 5 departure was followed by scenes
of violence and bloodshed.
The career of Santa Anna has been truly an
eventful one. He came into public life in the
year 1921, when, after having expelled the royal
lists from Vera Cruz, he was appointed to the COM
mand of that city, but was deposed in 1922 He
then raised republican banner, fought against
Iturbde, agd overthrow him. More changes fol-
lowed, and republicanism not suiting his pur-
poses, he became leader Of the Federast party.
But he was defeated and retired to his estate at
Jalappa.
In 1928, he again appeared on the scene, once
more republican, laboring to support Guerrero
President against Pedrazza. In $780, he
wheeled about and espoused the cause of Pc
drazza, defeated the army sent against him, and
Pedrnzza was President until 1888 At the next
election, Santa Anna himself was chosen Pres-
dent Of Mexico, defeated Arista and d'Arran,
who took up arms against him, and held his seat
until 1885, when an instruction headed by La
catecos broke out against him. Having quelled
this outbreak, he proclaimed himself dictator,
which caused a number of those who rebelled
against such usurpaton of power, to 90 to
Texas and proclaim new government. war
followed, and Santa Anna ended his dictatorship
by being taken prisoner. He was however, soon
released, and the next we hear of him is fighting
in 1898, in defence of Vera Cruz against the
French. Out of that contest he came minus one
leg. Again the wheel turned, and in l641 he
was again made President, governed until l845,
when the wheel of revolution once more whirled
him from its top to its bottom. But it soon whrl-
ed him back, and in 1886, there being war be-
tween the United States and Mexico, Santa An
ma, with seventeen thousand men, met General
Taylor with four thousand, at Buena Vista, and
was routed after two days fighting. He was
again defeated at Cerro Gordo, and on the Cd Of
February, l646, the Mexicans having been totally
overcome, treaty was signed by which, as one
of the results Of victory, the United States gained
the golden land Of California
But Santa Annals troubles and changes were
not ended by the evacuation of the American
troops from Mexico. Internal revolution again
obliged him to abdcate, and he retired to Kings
ton, Jamaica, and then to Carthagena, New
Granada, where he became a man of trade and
business. But soon the wheel turned again and
brought him back TO the Presidential chair of
Mexico, which he soon changed into the seat of
an Emperor, which in its turn has now sunk
under him, and he is now on his way TO Havana
to-be and to do what battles all conjecture to de-
termine.
And conjecture is equally at fault to determine
what will be the next change in the affairs of dis
tructcd Mexico. Santa Anna has departed, but
the elements Of confusion are still in full play
Alvarez marching from the South, revolutionists
and American fllibusters leagued together in the
North, and all eager for the spols.