Diplomatic memoirs . t return to the country and resume hiscitizenship without a tacit recognition of the revolutionaryregime of General Diaz, which he was determined never tomake. He therefore became a voluntary exile from hiscountry, which he had served so long and with so muchdistinction and to which he was greatly attached. There was no interdict against his return and no confis-cation of his estate, the income of which was regularly sent tohim in New York. He lived there a quiet, almost obscurelife, but at his death his remains were taken to the City ofMexico and buried with marked honors
Diplomatic memoirs . t return to the country and resume hiscitizenship without a tacit recognition of the revolutionaryregime of General Diaz, which he was determined never tomake. He therefore became a voluntary exile from hiscountry, which he had served so long and with so muchdistinction and to which he was greatly attached. There was no interdict against his return and no confis-cation of his estate, the income of which was regularly sent tohim in New York. He lived there a quiet, almost obscurelife, but at his death his remains were taken to the City ofMexico and buried with marked honors in the NationalCemetery, among the Immortals. He was a gentleman ofculture, an able lawyer, and one of the most useful of Mexicospublic men, having rendered important services during theWar of the Reform and the French Intervention. His greatmistake was in seeking a reelection to the Presidency, afterhe had denounced the practice and opposed the reelection ofJuarez. My personal relations with him in Mexico were very. PORFIRIO DIAZPresident of Mesico Wn^ NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ^8T0R, LENOX ANDTIUOEN FOUNDATIONS. THE TRIUMPH OF DIAZ 85 cordial, aud the visits which I made to him in his retirementin New York seemed very grateful to him. General Diaz, having received the adhesion of the Iglesiasarmy and of all the States, proceeded to estabhsh himself inauthority, as the decree announced, according to the termsof the Constitution by calHng for elections to choose a Presi-dent, members of the Supreme Court, and the Congress. Thedecree, however, excluded from candidature all persons whoin civil or mihtary grades had done anything to recognize thereelection of Senor Lerdo, who had participated in what weretermed the electoral frauds, or who had voted in favor of theextraordinary faculties. These prohibitions excludedfrom office more than three fourths of the members of thelast two Congresses, and of the Supreme Court, and a vastnumber of civil and mihtary officials, among the most e
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