Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03

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Bonito Juarez was full-blooded Zapotre
"a race which has never been fully con-
quered by the Spanisrds. Many times
have those valorous hidios de tds Sie,ras
(mountain Indians), to which tribe he be-
longed, marched down into the valleys and
dictated terms to their rulers. 1t was in
accordance with the eternal fitness" that
Mexicos final deliverer from bondage
should have been Mexican Indian of
blood unadulterated by Castilian stock.
He was born in the southern State of
OaXaca in 1906. The age of six found him
an orphan, without home or penny, and
for the next several years he was a street
GAMMA waif on the sea of life. AT
twelve he could
NEITHER READ NOR WRITE,
AS uncouth and ragged little specimen of
humanity as could well be found in this
land Of beggars. About this time some
lucky accident called the attention of an
expelled friar to young Bonito, and he was
elevated to the position of servant and
errand boy. Observing that his small
! charge developed an unusual degree of
intelligence, the priest sent him to the Sem
mary of Oajaca, intending to fit him for
the Church. In time it was discovered that
| he took up law instead, graduating from
the college with high honors, and at the
age of % becoming Professor of Natural
| History in his alma mater. Developing as
| a pronounced Liberal, he was sent to prison
in 1886 by the Conservatives; but six years
| later was made Chief Judge of the Re
public. soon afterward Secretary of the
| Government of Oajaca, and then Chief JUS
| tice of the Supreme Court. When his ma
| tive State resumed her original sovereignty
| Juarez was one of triumvirate in whom
| its Government was vested In 1916, when
| member of the national Congress, he
earnestly supported the war against the
| United States While Governor of Oajaca,
position which he held for five years, he
conducted its finances so well that he not
only paid off the State debt, but lett over
| $4,000 in the Treasury most extraor-
binary feat in the annals of Mexico" says
one, where the people are resigned if
only the vault which held the money is
left behind" In 1852 Santa Ana sent him
into exile, whereupon he spent two years
in New Orleans, studying our system OF
Government. In 1855 he returned to
Mexico, and was appointed by Presi-
dent Alvarez Minister of Justice
and Religion" in which position
he accomplished several important reforms
and banished long-standing abuses, one of
which was the abolition of clerical and
military Courts. by which the clergy and
militia had for years enjoyed exemption
from accountability to the laws of the ma
| ton. When again appointed Governor oil
Oajaca,
| HIS SECOND ADMINISTRATION
Was marked by still greater reforms than
the first. In 1857 he was reelected Con-
stitutional Governor, and at the same cleo
| ton was chosen President of the Supreme
Court of Justice which Office is also the
| Vice-Presidency OF the republic. 1t was
in 1858 that Juarez by virtue of his office
of Chief Justice was recognized as Presi-
dent OF Mexico by all the States but, I'M
able to contend against the opposing forces,
| he removed his Government to Guadalajara,
| then to Colima, thence, by the Isthmus OF
Panama and New Orleans, to Vera Cruz,
| from which point he marched toward the
Capital, defeated Miramon, who was then
claimant for the Presidency, and entered
| the City of Mexico in triumph But clouds
were gathering about the Mexican horizon,
and the reactionary or church forces,
under Miramon, and veterans of the
Crimea and Algeria under Bazaine, were too
many and powerful for President Juarez and
| his adherents, whose government was soon
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| to take refuge on the extreme northern
border. An American gentlemen who was
| with him at the time says that during all
| their reverses Juarezs energy, courage and
| infieXible purpose never to yield to foreign
| domination; his mistaken faith that he
would ultimately succeed in establishing
| himself at the national capital and in re-
storing the Mexican Republic, never fall
| tered for a moment His self-reliance was
! something wonderful, and his trust in
Providence earnest and sincere. The same
gentleman, who has mingled much with
European statesmen, and who had the best
of opportunities for studying Juarez's char
acter, pronounced him to be
ONE OF THE ABLEsT MEN
OF the day, equal in craftsmanship to Bis
marck, Beaconsfield or Gladstone, and in
answering integrity and lofty patriotism
the peer of Washington
| When the American civil war drew to a
close, and the French Emperor, realizing
his fatal error, withdrew his troops from
Mexico and abandoned Macmillan to his
fate, Juarez, who had been biding his
time, Immediately began the return
march to the capital. He had but three
or four regiments with him, his main
army being under command of General
Escobedo, who was now rapidly gaining
victories over the Imperialists The gen.
tleman above referred to, who accompanied
him on this march, relates an incident
which illustrates JuareZ' remarkable pow
ers of oratory and the veneration in which
he was held by the Mexicans. After a
long and tedious march the column had
been halted for a brief rest about the mid
die of the afternoon in an extensive plain
some eight miles from the city of San Luis
Potosi. The President travelled in an am
| bulance, the top of which could be thrown
back, and was drawn by four mules. Dur
ing the halt, band of thousand men
were seen coming from the city. On ap-
preaching the camp they spread out in the
form of regiment in line, two deep. Adj
vancing Immediately in front of the Presi-
dent, who was sitting in his ambulance,
they halted. As if at signal, every man
dismounted, and falling upon his left knee,
holding the bridle-rein with the right hand,
and doffing his sombrero,
BOWED IN HOMAGE
To the ruler. Juarez sprang to his feet,
and standing in the carriage. spoke in
thunder tones saving. ~ Men 0f Mayip0