American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-09
Santa Anna and Macmillan.

restoration of the Republic and the over,
throw of the Empire. Supposing the
document to be authentic, the name Of
its author undoubtedly clothes it with
great political Importance.
Santa Anna has been longer and more
prominently active upon the political stage
of Mexico than any other Mexican states.
man now living. He has been himself
seven times President and twice Dicta-
tor, and was once even supposed to be on
the point of being elevated to an imperi-
al throne. On the great questions which
have agitated Mexico, Santa Anna has
repeatedly changed party connections,
being, in turn, Centralist, a Federalist
an opponent and friend of the Chulch
claims. The proclamation just issued ex-
plains these variations from the desire to
respect always the decision of the ma
jority of the people. The same desire,
the proclamation further states, led San
ia Anna to the recognition of the EN-
pire. On this point, however, the au-
thor of the proclamation feels the need of
more detailed apology. Santa Anna, in
recognizing, in 1864, the Empire, said :
"The last word of my conscience and OF
my conuictions is Constitutional Monar-
chy" This, he asserts, was extorted fom
him by the French authorities at Vera
Cruz. His stay in Mexico was made de-
pendent upon the recognition of the
French Intervention aud upon his keep.
ing quiet This he would not have done
had not the suiIerings Of his wife and
the advice of several friedds who came to
meet him overcome his doubts. He was
willing to recognize and to accept Maxi
milan as she choice of the majority of
the Mexican people, but not as the tool
of the French Emporer.
Santa Anna claims to have now gained
the conviction that Maximilian has no
intention to pursue truly national and
reformatory policy, but that he is estau-
fishing dcspotism which all Mexicans
should unite to overthrow. That this ap-
peal will meet with responses, and that it
will add to the opposition which is still
made to the Empire, cannot be doubted.
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Mexican, aud which has always had and
still has the power to rally around it a
party. There are, moreover, lew Mexi-
cans who have better acquaintance of
the current opinion among their country
men than Santa Anna, and who have b en-
more eager to turn this knowledge to their
own advantage The recent pronuncia-
mento may, therefore, be taken as a proof
that its author has satisfactory intorma-
tion of the decline of the cause of the
Empire apong his countrymen.
Although us general rule, the war
bulleting Of both the beligqrent parties in
Mexico cannot be received with too great
caution, there are many indications, en-
tirely trustworthy, that in the Govern
ment circles of. Mexico the situation is
not regarded as satisfactory. There are
ominous admissions in the letters written
by the most devoted partisans Of the En-
pire that the Juarist officers who had
given in their submission show again a
tendency to join the Republican army
that considerable bodies of Republican
farces are maintaining themselves in ev-
cry State of the Confederation, and that
no progress is made in the pacfcation of
the Western States. Letters publisbe d
in French, Austrian and Belgian papers
also clearly prove that many of the for
eign mercenaries who have been. sent
to Mexico to subdue the people begin to
see that the task is much more difficult
than it at first appeared to be, and that
they are as far as ever from realizing it..
Two things seem to US to be well estab-
lished--the unpopularity of the cause of
the Empire in Mexico as well as in Eu-
rope, and the popularity of the Republi-
can cause at me are both on the increase.
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