. Young folks' history of Mexico. company withJuarez, a member of that immortal cabinet that for fouryears followed the fortunes of their chief, and strove to up-hold the principles of the constitution during that darkperiod of adversity. His firm character contributed morethan anything else to the success of the plans of Juarez,and these two formed an invincible force that eventuallyovercame the machinations of the enemies of their country. So8 Mexico. He was certainly entitled to the consideration of theleaders of the Liberal party, and deserved well of thepeople he had so nobly battled for
. Young folks' history of Mexico. company withJuarez, a member of that immortal cabinet that for fouryears followed the fortunes of their chief, and strove to up-hold the principles of the constitution during that darkperiod of adversity. His firm character contributed morethan anything else to the success of the plans of Juarez,and these two formed an invincible force that eventuallyovercame the machinations of the enemies of their country. So8 Mexico. He was certainly entitled to the consideration of theleaders of the Liberal party, and deserved well of thepeople he had so nobly battled for to conserve as a nation. There were then, the followers of Juarez—Juaristas;those of Lerdo — Lerdistas—who opposed the principle ofre-election as anti-democratic ; and a party of the opposition,mainly officers of the army, who fixed upon Porfirio Diaz,and hence called themselves Forfiristas^ or Constitution-alists. In the beginning of 1870 the principal papers of therepublic took sides with one party or the other, and party. PORTRAIT OF LERDO DE TEJADA. quarrels were soon commenced. In May, 1871, the first ofthe series of pronimciainientos declared itself at Tampico,when the federal garrison pronounced against the consti-tutional government. Troops were sent against them, anda battle resulted, in which more than six hundred menwere either killed or wounded. The most terrible of therebellions against constitutional authority was that whichtook place in the capital on the ist of October, in whichthe rebels got possession of the citadel, containing armsand military stores, armed nearly six hundred prisoners Juarez re-elected. 509 liberated from the jail of Belem, and bade defiance to theupholders of the laws. President Juarez was left nearlyalone in the palace, surrounded by a small guard, buthe preserved his habitual calmness and serenity, quickly sum m o n e dhis faithfulgenerals, andmade prepa-rations forbringing therebels to or-der. The cit-adel was at-tacked andcarried
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