CHAPTER VI. 

 1829 — 1843. 



CONSPIRACY AGAINST GUERRERO BY BUSTAMANTE GUERRERO 



BETRAYED AND SHOT. ANECDOTE REVOLT UNDER SANTA 



ANNA HE RESTORES PEDRAZA AND BECOMES PRESIDENT. 



GOMEZ FARIAS DEPOSED CHURCH. — CENTRAL CONSTITUTION 



OF 1836 SANTA ANNA HIS TEXAN DISGRACE MEXIA. 



BUSTAMANTE PRESIDENT. FRENCH AT YERA CRUZ. RE- 

 VOLTS IN THE NORTH AND IN THE CAPITAL. BUSTAMANTE 



DEPOSED SANTA ANNA PRESIDENT. 



Violent as was the conduct of the pretended liberals in over- 

 throwing their rivals the Escocesses, and firmly as it may be 

 supposed such a band was cemented in opposition to the machina- 

 tion of a bold monarchical party, we, nevertheless, find that treason 

 existed in the hearts of the conspirators against the patriot hero 

 whom they had used in their usurpation of the presidency. Scarce- 

 ly had Guerrero been seated in the chair of state when it became 

 known that there was a conspiracy to displace him. He had been 

 induced by the condition of the country, and by the bad advice of 

 his enemies to assume the authority of dictator. This power, he 

 alleged, was exercised only for the suppression of the intriguing 

 Escocesses ; but its continued exercise served as a pretext at least, 

 for the vice president, General JBustamante, to place himself at the 

 head of a republican division and pronounce against the president 

 he had so recently contributed to place in power. The executive 

 commanded Santa Anna to advance against the assailants ; but this 

 chief, at first, feebly opposed the insurgents, and, finally, frater- 

 nizing with Bustamante, marched on the capital whence they drove 

 Guerrero and his partisans to Valladolid in Michoacan. Here the 

 dethroned dictator organized a government, whilst the usurping 

 vice president, Bustamante, assumed the reins in the capital. In 

 Michoacan, Guerrero, who was well known and loved for his 

 revolutionary enterprises in the west of Mexico, found no difficulty 

 in recruiting a force with which he hoped to regain his executive 

 post. Congress was divided in opinion between the rival factions 

 of the liberalists, and the republic was shaken by the continual 



