The Lake County star., 1876-07-27
NUMBER l3.
Death OF Santa Anna.
Louisville Courier-Jo Journal. ]

Santa Anna used to be name very
familiar to Americans twenty-five or
thirty years ago. Many were the jokes
cracked about the old general during the
Mexican war but he is now dead. He
passed away in the city of Mexico, on
june %, aged 70 years.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born
in Jalapa, Mexico, February 81. 1898. He
commenced his military career by assist
ing in the downfall of the empire founded
by the unfortunate Iturbide /, and his
services were acknowledged in 1928 by
his appointment to the position of COM
mander-in-chief under President Guer-
rerO.
After indulging in two or three insur-
rections he was elected President in 1888,
and it then became his dutyto suppress
instructions. In 1886 he tried to sup
press a revolt in Texas, but was ignomin-
iously defeated by General Houston at
San Jacinto, and was taken prisoner.
Upon his liberation, in 1887, he went
back to Mexico, and ran for the Presi-
dency, but the people did not appreciate
him, and he was defeated at the election
and retired to his home in Jalapa, but
could not resist his war-like proclivities,
and in aiding in the defense at Vera
Cruz against the French he lost a leg.
From 1841 to 1874 he was provisional
President of the Mexican Republic, then
dictator and then constitutional presi-
dent, but in that year he was deposed and
banished for ten years.
When the war between the United
States and Mexico broke out, Santa
Anna was recalled and placed in COM
mand of the Mexican army. After be-
ing defeated at Buena Vista and CerrO
GOrdo, he returned to the City of Mexico
where he performed the functions of a
dictator most admirably. When Gen
eral Scott captured the capital, Santa
Anna resigned the Presidency and went
into the field again, when he was signally
defeated at Puebla. In 1848 he went to
Jamaica, but returned to Mexico again
in 1853, when the people received him
with enthusiasm and made him Presi-
dent for one year. Santa Anna made use
of his position to play the role of de-
spot, and his tyranical conduct brought
about revolution which resulted in his
abdication. He wandered about South
America for some years, but ventured to
Mexico in 1864, when the French were
indulging their imperial designs, but
General Bazaine ordered him out of the
country. Macmillan retained him,
however, as grand marshal of the empire,
and the old soldier of fortune got mixed
up in a conspiracy against the emperor
and had to flee to the West Indies.
In 1867 he tried to get into power in
Mexico, but was seized and condemned
to death. Juarez pardoned him, and
Santa Anna came to the United States.
For the last few years he has been liv-
ing in the City of Mexico in a quiet way,
his great age and growing infirmities
preventing him from indulging his ap-
petite for revolution. His life has been
a very eventful and exciting one, as he
was on the crest of the Mexican revolu-
tionary wave continually, and was not
happy unless engaged in an insurrection
or plot, or exercising dictatorial power. A
constitutional president it was not in his
nature to be. AS soldier his reputation
was not very well established.