The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-03
THE REBEL. MANIFESTO
FURNISHES EVIDENCE IMPLICAT-
ING roo MExICANs.
The Pronunciamento Declares tho Mexi'
can Nation TO be In a State Of Siege
and the People Are Called to Arms.

MONTEREY. MEX, Jan. 2.--The Mexi-
can Government, through the efforts Of
General Bernardo Ress. governor of the
State OF Neuvo Leon, has secured evi-
dence duplicating 200 prominent Mexicans
of the State of Tamaulipas and the
Texas frontier in the present revolution
airy movement This evidence is In the
nature of q secret revolutionary pro-
nunciamento, distributed only among
those believed TO be in sympathy with
the cause. The following is the transla-
tion of the pronunciamento:
The plan of revolution is conceived for
the purpose of overcoming the despotism
and tyranny Of President Diaz, and re-
turning the country to its constitutional
order. The undersigned Mexican citizens.
in full exercise of our rights and making
use of the national laws conceded to us
to govern ourselves, and In search Of the
means for securing happiness. consider
that the people at all times have the
right to revoke the power OF their SOW
erelgn, when the executive converts 1t
into tyranny and uses it to his personal
advantage; and that General DiaZ and
cabinet exercise an arbitrary power. taxi
ing for law their own voluntary caprices,
I'm order TO satisfy their own illegitimate,
ambitious and personal vengeance, ex-
ceeding i'm cruelty the most terrible
beasts. They exercise avarice and other
inordinate passions; they have demoral-
ized the nation with their system of ter
rorism, placing the common people under
the most terrible yoke. taking away their
principal rights-the right Of personal Sc
curity the right of individual liberty and
the right Of prosperity.
For the above reason We have agreed
to sustain a plan Of revolution to over
throw the power OF General Diaz and re-
establish the constitution OF 1881 In this
country; to disown General Diaz as Presi-
dent Of the United States of Mexico. and
we pronounce him traitor to his country
and the constitution he swore TO guard.
We denounce the secretaries of State
and governors who will be tried and pun
ished according to the charges which may
be placed against them. The military
chiefs and civil authorities of whatever
class that take up arms against our plans
will be considered traitors 20 their coun-
try, and punished accordingly.
From the publication and circulation of
this plan the Mexican nation is declared
to be in a state of siege. and for the
proper execution of this siege the Mexi-
can people are called to arms, to be called
the Constitutional Army, and its motto
shall be the constitution of 1857 and ma
tional integrity.
At the taking of possession of the capt.
tai. Cara will call general election of
the country for constitutional conven-
ton, 10 meet in the City of Mexico. four
months after the capture of the capital
to revise the constitution of 1857, making
such reforms and amendments as they
may consider proper. always keeping in
mind the liberal system of federal dem
ocracy. The governors and other authori-
ties who Immediately recognize this plan
will be retained i'm their present positions,
provided they may have been honorable
members of the Tuxtepec plan constitu-
tion of 1851, and national integrity, free
suffrage and no reelection
On the banks of the Rio Grande I'm the
State of Tamaulipas, December %. 1892.
(Signed) Prudencio Gonzales,
Sevrauo Julian Florens.
Eusticard Jose Pena.