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CHAPTER X.
BASES OF TACUBAYA.
1841-1842.
More Taxes and Less Reform — Paredes Pronounces at Guadalajara Valencia Seconds Him at the Capital — Santa Anna Steps Forward to Assume the Leadership — Bases of Tacubaya — Federalist Counter-pronunciamiento by the President — Mexico again Besieged — Bustamante Resigns — His Character and Rule — Santa Anna Vaults into the Chair — Small Concessions to Cover Large Encroachments and Abuses — Yucatan Defeats the Centralist Troops and Obtains Practical Autonomy — Sentmanat's Invasion of Tabasco — Movements along the Texan Border Claims of the United States and Growing Bitterness 226
CHAPTER XI.
INTRIGUES, MISRULE, AND OVERTHROW OF SANTA ANNA.
1842-1845.
A Prospective Liberal Constitution — Santa Anna Withdraws behind the Arras — Intrigues against Congress — The Chambers Forcibly Dissolved — Installation of the Junta de Notables — New Organic Bases — Further Political Juggling — A Dummy President — Reëlection of Santa Anna — His Ridiculous Vanity and Peculiar Mode of Life — Administrative Corruption and Abuse — Paredes again Pronounces at Guadalajara — Santa Anna Promptly Takes the Field — The Hall of Congress Closed — The Capital Joins the Spreading Movement — Herrera Proclaimed President — Bluster and Vacillation of Santa Anna — His Flight, Capture, Impeachment, and Exile — Efforts at Reform Hampered by Factions 252
CHAPTER XII.
POLITICAL COMMOTIONS.
1845-1847.
José Joaquin de Herrera as Constitutional President — Opposition to his Policy on the Texan Question — Preparations for War — Archbishop Posada's Course — Plan of San Luis Potosí — Herrera Deposed — Paredes as Provisional President — Dissatisfaction — Revolution at Guadalajara — Paredes Overthrown — Santa Anna Recalled — He is Elected President — Gomez Farías as Vice — president Assumes the Executive Office — Santa Anna Supersedes Him 288
CHAPTER XIII.
CAUSES OF WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES.
1836-1848.
Coercive Diplomacy Claims against Mexico Their Remarkable In crease Demands for Adjustment American Hostility and Mexican Forbearance — Diplomatic Relations Suspended and Renewed — Arbitration and its Results — More American Claims and Mexican Counter — claims — Unfairness of the United States Government — Recognition of Texan Independence — Foreign Intrigues — Annexation of Texas — Means of Accomplishment — A Casus Belli — Rupture of Relations — Pressure on Mexico — Warlike Demonstrations — Slidell's Unsuccessful Mission 307