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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Printed Broadside, "A Sus Conciudadanos" Issued While in Exile. ...
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Printed Broadside, "A Sus Conciudadanos" Issued While in Exile. One page, 8.5" x 12.5". Puebla: Inprenta de la Livertad, 1846.Letter written by the ousted president-turned-dictator in which he vehemently denies that he wrote a French article reprinted in the Mexican government newspaper suggesting that the nation should return to a monarchy led by a foreign prince. Dated "Habana, May 20, 1846" and signed in type, Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna.
Translated into English, Santa Anna writes, in part, "On the 24th of last April, a French newspaper article titled; Mail from the United States, was published in the Official Daily of the Government of Mexico, which recommended the establishment of a monarchy in the republic [of Mexico], with a foreign prince, and it was assumed that I was an instigator of this article, of which the newspaper directly accused me of organizing, so that it gained the attention of Madrid, Paris, and London. Such an accusation was made without any further commentary, at times suppressing the freedom of the press, and denying my friends any measure of defending me, as such I have detected that this is a traitorous move to depict me as the author of such a murderous suggestion, forming as such part of a malicious attack against my person under the appearance of the innocuous publication of a foreign newspaper, and I shall not let this run without offering a contradiction...
Santa Anna had been driven into exile and sent to Cuba in 1845, and it is during this exile that he pens this message. Despite his insistence that the government was trying to frame him as an enemy of the republic, Santa Anna returned to the presidency only three months later at the behest of federal officials. After Mexican forces faced stunning losses to American soldiers in the early battles of the Mexican American War, conservative politicians removed President Mariano Paredes from office and reinstated the Constitution of 1824 with Santa Anna in charge. He remained in power until 1848 but was again exiled, this time to Jamaica, after losing in the war.
Condition: Lightly toned and creased along the fold. Irregular left margin, likely from being disbound, with pinpricks for sewing. Pencil notations at the bottom left corner verso.
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