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system, ioe winch Santa Ana had determined
10 Substitute Consolidation, and having proposed
son:c laws which ;renchsd upon the President
views and The powers of the Church and Aristo
cracy, Santa Ana sgniiied has intention OF ;is;n-
force 10 counteract even the discussion OF them.
oy which the Cong;css, thinking its Legislative
freedom invaded. suspended voluntarily its scs
sions about The middle Of May, 1884. SAINT.
Ana appealed at oncc TO the people to sus s,n.
him IN his maintenance Of the Religion and IL
s:;R'lous Of the country, which he alleged we.r
attacked By the Wee. President and The ,yrenn
cal majority OF the Legislature.


Prepared by this step, the people acquiesccd IN
a new piln from Cutcrasvaca, by which The scve
rel States were censoldaci INTO one body. Va.
RIOTS OF the States resisted; among others Zeca-
tccas, whose opposition was suppressed by Sanl,.
Ana himself. General Bravo now arrayed HIM
se!iaganst the Government. lie, hove, er, wa4
pu: down, aud the Republic became what it he'd
been declared to he by the Pan OF Cuernavaca
:. one and iaGirisi5lc"


All power maw rested in the hands oi Santa
Ana, (Far:qs Vclcat:ao having bccn dsfran
chssd) whesc, with tie exception Of the inter
reenui, Produced by his Imprisonment in Texas
1t has since resided.


The forms ofIhc Government require that there
should be ! President elected for eight years,
Chamber o; Representatives, and a Senate, Il
Supreme Court and High Court in each de
paFtnent. Besides this thcro IS Ccnscrva;iv,
body, which may revise and annul the acts o
either q :hc ether branches. ana Is accountahl,
only to God aad Public Opinion; but these pro
visions exist Only III Theory. Santa Ana is as
absolute Is Sy!. or Cesar ever was. and rules b,
his ONE Will, either from, The Presidential chair,
or from his retreat ID, Mango dc Clavo. viii
Dustamenia as nominal President.


While this Constitution was being formed, Il
body OF adventures from the United State
established themselves in Texas, where small
colony had been formed originally By the sanc,ion
OF the Mexican Government, and maneuvrcd L.
separate that Dcpartmcntfrom thcMcxicanUnior
The result OF the contest that sprung ont OF II,
the bloody fights O, the Alamo and San JaciatU.
arc vet in the mcmofy Of all and probably Wi
nc too deeply imprinted upon the history of our
ccnntry ever to bc forgotten. 1t may be iha'
contest is nat yet overt L the mad ambition
ruT Executive and the cov1tousncSs vi Il vast POI
ton ol the nation may force Us To endorse all tn
acts Of this organised sy stem ot ula.auclng, an'
no, only compel Us to prolong the distractions u
Mexico but involve us il: the terrible Wazcs of
war III which the Right may not bc or our side
Which may Heaven avert.