Arizona citizen., 1875-09-11
THE SONORA REVOLUTION.
Plans of 1t and Address by the Rev.
 OIutinuary Commander.

Just now we can give nothing of greater local interest than reliable mat ter concerning the Sonora revolution, which in the very nature of our loca- tiOn must command our attention and in some degree affect our prosperity. In another column, we refer to the ne cessity of United States troops in proX- imity to our southern frontier to pre- vent or punish outrages, and Leopoldo Calrillo recites in detail Gin Spanish) the outrage committed on him by the officials of Sonora. Below we give a translation by MT Carlos Fully, of a document lately issued, which sets forth the objections to Pesqueira, and peaceable and also warlike plan of redress; also an address by Gen. Serna, in pursuance of the call by his fellow citizens upon him to command the for ces in opposition to Gov. Pesqueira and his rule. Here are both in the or der named:
 At the village of Altar, on the 11th day of August, 1875, we, the subscri- bers, considering that the actual Gov ernor of State, Don Ygnacia Pesqueira, flRas by the abuseIOf the position which p4e occupies, falsified the vote of the people of Sonora, trampling over their rights and using for the purpose all those means contrary to law and mor ality, and thus making of our most sa- cred institutions a ridiculous farce which, were the people of Sonora to consent to, it would eventually demon strate that we are not worthy of the mo- ble title of citizens of free Republic; :; and as we do not wish by any means to appear as the instruments of the crim- inal ambition of the man who, during the long term of his office, has done nothing else but to ruin the State with. his exclusive and arbitrary policy Considering also, that the only princi- pie of authority upon which the gov ernment of Don YgnaciO Pesqueira might rest, is false principle, from the very moment that the people of this State are fully convinced that that government does not represent the ma jority nor the interests nor the aspira- tions of the people of Sonora, but it is simply a result obtained with power, employing all the means which are available in the position in which he is placed, not having spared any at tempt against suffrage through his agents, who are now vested with the legislative power and who have unfor- tunately ruled during this biennial ;; nor has he spared any threats, intrigues and coercions, of which he has made use, to prevent some from approaching the polls, and compelling others to give a forced vote by his superior orders, thus converting into bloody farce for our citizens, and shameful to our lnSti-I tutions, the most sacred act in the lifcl of a free people, and upon which ourI social building rests, based on the re- publican-democratic form of govern ment
 Considering at last, that the citizens of Sonora have no longer in the gov ernment of Don Ygnacio PesQueira any security for their interests nor safe ty in their persons, as is plainly shown by the eXcesses which he commits daily through his Prefects, violating thus the most sacred rights that the fundamental Chart of our Republic has given us, whether by shameful deeds or by still more shameful decrees which he is issuing and by means of which the persons and the property of our citizens are rendered unable to de fend themselves from so much arbtrar- mess and so much abuse, leaving them no other resort than an appeal to insur- rectiOn-a sacred right when people is in the condition in which Sonora now is, and which we cannot lay aside without renouncing the dignity of free men, and be satisfied with the reproach which an illegal and immoral govern ment is trying to imprint in the fore heads of the heretofore free and proud sons of Sonora.
 In consideration of these things we have enunciated, the citizens who sub scribe to this before God and the peo- pie of Sonora, as witnesses to our sen- timents, do proclaim:
 1. We disclaim the appointment of officials made by virtue of the local elections in the Districts of Ures, Her mosillo and Guaymas, as we consider them illegal on account of the unlaw- ful management of which Don Ygna- cio Pesqueira and the Prefects of those districts 1uade use of.
 ?. It is likewise declared null, the elections which were made in the so- called Electoral College of Hermo- sillo to elect Senators and Represen- tatives to the National Congress.
 3. We request the President of the Republic, that by virtue of the extra ordinary faculties (powers) with which he is vested, he may be pleased to ap- point Governor ad interim, who will roe,,aot tha riohts Ot the citizanS