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As the latter had come without troops, there was nothing left but for him to recognize the revolution as an accomplished fact and make the best terms for his country he could. Accordingly he met Iturbide in conference at Cordova, and after a brief discussion signed the treaty bearing that name, August 24, 1821.
How delighted Viola would have been with that scene, I thought regretfully, as the train carried us through it. When we arrived at the City of Mexico, we drove to the Hotel Iturbide and took a room high up on the third floor, to be well lifted out of the suffocating atmosphere of the streets.
He was an emperor without traditional associations; he had an empire without a revenue; a large standing army without pay. The fickle multitude, who supposed that independence was to prove an antidote for every evil, began to murmur; while a host of demagogues, who envied the good fortune of Iturbide, were all beginning to clamor for a republic. The blow, however, came from an unexpected quarter.
See the statement of Iturbide in regard to his political life published in the Pamphleteer, London, 1827. The struggle of the South American peoples for independence was viewed from the first with feelings of profound satisfaction and sympathy in the United States.
By the terms of this contract, and for certain important pecuniary considerations, the uncles, aunt, and father of the boy agreed that the Iturbide family, including the parents, should leave the country, and that Maximilian should become the guardian of the child, the aunt, Dona Josefa Iturbide, the masterful mind of the family, remaining as his governess.
The Mexicans, like the Cubans, do not drink deep, but they drink often; and though it is seldom that a respectably dressed person is seen intoxicated, either on the streets or elsewhere, still the active bartenders of the Iturbide drinking-saloon did not quit their posts until nearly broad daylight in the morning.
Amidst the beauty and glory of Spain's dominion in California, while the gold emblazoned banners of Castile and Leon floated proudly under azure skies, while the Spanish governors, officers and colonists were doing honor and credit to their ancient race, and the saintly missionaries were working marvels for the souls and bodies of the aborigines of the land, while Spain was thus lending "her beauty and her chivalry" to California; Mexico, forgetting her old debt to Spain, when she explored her then heathen shores, had revolted against Spanish rule and set up an empire of her own, making Augustin Iturbide, a man of half Indian blood her Emperor.
Powerless to thwart it and inclined besides to a policy of conciliation, the new viceroy, Juan O'Donoju, agreed to ratify it on condition in obedience to a suggestion from Iturbide that the parties concerned should be at liberty, if they desired, to choose any one as emperor, whether he were of a reigning family or not.
The house is fairly well furnished so far as comfort is concerned, and the beds well, they might possibly be worse, domestic comfort is not the strong point in the Iturbide, where cleanliness is also one of the lost arts. All the chambermaids here, as in Japan, are men, and very good servants they are, according to their light and the material which is furnished to them.
Description of Manilla The two Towns Gaiety of Binondoc Dances Gaming Beauty of the Women Their Fascinating Costume Male Costume The Military Town Personal Adventures My First Patient His Generous Confidence Commencement of my Practice The Artificial Eye Brilliant Success The Charming Widow Auspicious Introduction My Marriage Treachery and Fate of Iturbide Our Loss of Fortune Return to France postponed.
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