Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-31
Artifles.
From the New York Herald.
SANTA ANNA.
Sketch of His Remarkable Career.

! Sketch of His Remarkable Career.
Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, ex-Presi-
dent and Dictator of Mexico, arrived from
St. Thomas at Elizabethport, N. j., on the
11ta inst, and is now residing with friend
at that place The purpose for which be
comes is not generally known, but it is sup.
posed that it is to aid by some means the
cause of the Liberals in Mexico against
Maximilian of Austria. He has lately avow-
ed hostility to the latter, whom he former
ly looked upon as one destined to give peace
to his distracted country.
Santa Anna has passed q remarkable ca.
reer and is a remarkable character. He
was born in Jalapa, February 81, 1893
He first came into public notice in 1921, in
the Mexican war of independence and in
1922, having expelled the royalists from
Vera Cruz, he was appointed to the com.
mand of that city. In November of that
year be was deposed by Yturbide, who had
proclaimed himself Emperor but Santa
Anna refused to submit to his authority,
raised the banner of the Republic in Vera
Cruz, and in 1923 succeeded in comprising
Yturbide's downfall In the changes which
quickly followed he placed himself at the
head Of the federal party, but was defeated,
and retired to his estate at Jalapa.
In 1928 he took the field against the
Government of Pedraza, chosen to the Presi.
dency by an elected majority Of Two, declar.
ing the election Of Guerrero valid and af.
ter series of engagements retired to Oaja-
ca. The command of the forces against the
Spanish expedition under Bartradas was in.
trusted to him; and embarkiug at Vera
Cruz he forced Barradas to capitulate at
Tanpico,. September II, 1929. Guerrero
made him Minister of War and Comman-
der.in-Chief of the army, but continuing
afterward to exercise the dictatorial powers
with which he had been invested to repel
the invasion, Santa Anna combined with
Bustamente to overthrow him, and the lat
ter was made President by the army. In
January, 1882, however, Santa Anna head
ed a new insurrectiou, declaring for his for.
mer opponent, Pedraza, whose triumph be
insured by a victory over the government
troops in October of that year. Being him.
self chosen President in March, 1888, he
had to confront popular insurrectiou un-
der Arista and Don Gabriel Duran, but
speedily subdued it. He now left the par
| ty of the fsderalists, and put himself at the
head of the centralists, who wished the pow
er concentrated 10 the executive govern
ment Though favorite With the army,
which desired him to be made Dictator, he
was unpopular with the nation, especially as
a rumor was spreading that be aimed at the
imperial dignity.
| A new revolt broke out in four provinces,
and manifesto was issued at Texea against
his government. On May IL, 1885, he ut
terly defeated the army of the insurgents on
the plains of Guadalupe, near Zacatecas,
killing two thousand and taking two thous-
and seven hundred prisoners. This was fatal
blow to the republican party in Mexico, and
Santa Anna was named dictator. The de-
struction of the federal constitution was soon
cousummated; the State legislatures were
abolished, their places being supplied by q
departmental council, and the Governors of
the several States became dependent upon
the supreme power. Mexico was submis
sive, but revolutionary feeling had been
long existing in Texas, which now broke
out into open insurrection. Early in 1885
Santa Anna took the field in person. By
the middle of February he reached the Rio
| Grande at the head of six thousand troops,
stormed the Alamo at San Antonio on
March 6, after several days siege, and mas.
sacred its defenders, but with great less to
himself; and after the massacre at Goliad,
done under his express orders, marched to-
ward Gonzales. At San Jacinto he met the
Texan army under Houston, by whom he
was totally routed, April 2l, and the day
following taken prisoner. During his cap
tivity be made treaty with the Texans,
which resulted 10 nothing, as his functions
we're suspended by the Mexican govern
ment
10 1887 he was set at liberty, and return
ed to his native country by way Of the Uni
ted States. On reaching Vera Cruz he was
coldly received. At the Presidential eleo-
tion of that year be received but two out of
sixty:uine electoral votes. He had retired
to his estate, twenty-seven miles from Vera
Cruz, when (November 27) the Castle of
San Juan de Ulloa was bombarded by the
French. He hastcned to Vera Cruz, where
his services were accepted by Genera! Vic.
toria, and took command after the fall of
the castle. He repelled an assault upon
that city by the French December s., for
cling them to re.embark, but received a
wound in the leg which uecessitated its am,
putation In the contentious between the
centralists and the federalists which during
the following years distracted Mexico, he
was one of the leaders of the former and
from October 10, 1S4l, to June 4, 1874,
he was virtual Dictator, under the title of
Provisional President, Bravo and Canalizo
acting as his substitutes during two inter-
walls of absence with the army. He was a
gain Constitutional President, under the in
strument of June IL, l843, from June 4 to
September 20, 1914, when be was deposed