Mexico and her military chieftains : from the revolution of Hidalgo to the . and acted so bravelyas to attract general attention to him. The result ofthis sad battle has already been described, and we will notnow follow Bustamente through the bloodstained episodesof this cruel w^ar, every page of the history of which isinteresting as it is horrible. Suffice it to say that atlength he joined the patriots, disgusted at the outragesof Calleja and Vanegas, and became a general in therepublican ranks. It is a pleasant task to say that oneof the first efforts of his authority was to take
Mexico and her military chieftains : from the revolution of Hidalgo to the . and acted so bravelyas to attract general attention to him. The result ofthis sad battle has already been described, and we will notnow follow Bustamente through the bloodstained episodesof this cruel w^ar, every page of the history of which isinteresting as it is horrible. Suffice it to say that atlength he joined the patriots, disgusted at the outragesof Calleja and Vanegas, and became a general in therepublican ranks. It is a pleasant task to say that oneof the first efforts of his authority was to take downfrom the stakes to which they had been affixed, theheads of Hidalgo and his comrades, whom he had op-posed, and have them buried w^ith the rites of the church;for they had been inhumanly treated as persons hereticaland accursed. This was the year of the revolt of Itur-bide, to whom Bustamente was always loyal, and inwhich for the first time he found himself in directopposition to Santa Anna, who was the first to declareagainst, as he had been the first to hail him the DON ANASTASIO BUSTAMENTE. FARIAS AND BUSTAMENTE. 237 From this time to 1828, when the constitutional presi-dency was terminated, Bustamente participated in allaffairs of state. On the 30th of November, an insur-rection broke out in the capital, for the purpose of an-nullins: the election of Pedraza, who had succeededVictoria, the consequence of which was the sacking ofthe seat of government, the expulsion of Pedraza, andthe accession to power of Guerrero, who, though calledvice-president, was the chief magistrate de facto. In thenext year, Guerrero shared the fate of his predecessor,except that death, not exile, was his portion. In December, 1829, Bustamente commanded a divi-sion encamped at Jalapa, when, as happened often inthat portion of the Roman republic Mexico has everseemed to imitate, the soldiers proclaimed their generalthe ruler of their country. On the 18th of December, heset out for the
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