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From this castle Santa Anna, in 1828, issued his pronunciamiento against Pedraza. In this castle he was imprisoned by Rincon, in 1845, after his capture at Xico. From this castle he was banished by decree of the Mexican Congress; and to it he was now returning to hold the supreme power in the State.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Jalapa, in 1795, and entered the army at an early age. With Iturbide he joined in the revolution and came out a brigadier-general, and was made commandant of Vera Cruz. A few years later he organised a revolt and overthrew the man he had aided, and in 1828 he deposed Pedraza and put Guerrero in his place.
Unluckily, his rude followers did not know the value of their prize; and they broke many of them in pieces by pounding them with hammers.16 They were led to this extraordinary proceeding, it is said, by one of the Dominican missionaries, Fray Reginaldo de Pedraza, who assured them that this was the way to prove the true emerald, which could not be broken.
Still, there are those that find means to labor and to work at repairing shoes or clothes in the midst of this babel of sin and tumult. The Acordada gave its name to that night insurrection to which I have so often referred. Two regiments of artillery, quartered in the palace of the Inquisition, pronounced against the legality of the election of Pedraza to the presidency.
Gómez Pedraza, the president whom Guerrero had deposed, was restored to fill out his own term; then, in 1833, Santa Anna was elected, but retired to his estate, leaving the vice-president Gómez Farías in power. He, like Gómez Pedraza, attempted reforms directed chiefly against the Church and the army, with the backing of the Federalist majority in Congress.
I was sitting in the United States Congress, when this constitution passed, and very much occupied with the politics of Tennessee." "I will not detain you with Mexican politics. It may be briefly said that for the last ten years there has been a constant fight between Pedraza, Guerrero, Bustamante and Santa Anna for the Presidency of Mexico.
"The grant to old Guerrero, Porfias del Norte's grandfather, was made by President Pedraza in 1832. Am I not right?" "What if you are?" "It means a great deal to Mr. Merriwell, as I will demonstrate. I have lately learned that there was an earlier claimant to that same territory. The first Mexican republic was organized in October, 1824, with General Don Felix Fernando Victoria as president.
Shaking his head up and down, the professor slowly opened the register and slowly scanned it while he called off the names in a low voice. "Palencia Palomo Panganiban Pedraza Pelado Pelaez Penitents, aha! Placido Penitente, fifteen unexcused absences " Placido started up. "Fifteen absences, Padre?"
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