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CHAPTER XXVIII.
DOWNFALL OF LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS.
1857-1858.
Conservative Intrigues — Talk of a Coup d'Etat — Spanish Complications — Comonfort's Vacillating Course — Hostility of the Clergy Continues — Congress Installed — Comonfort Avows Liberalism — His Election as Constitutional President — Promises Made and Violated — Plan of Tacubaya — Comonfort Becomes its Chief — Action of Congress Arrest of Juarez and Others — Reactionists Victorious — Comonfort's Overthrow — Civil War in Full Blast — Zuloaga, Reactionary Presi dent — Juarez, Constitutional President — His Narrow Escape from Capture — He Establishes his Government in Vera Cruz 715
CHAPTER XXIX.
STRIFE FOR SUPREMACY.
1858-1859.
President Juarez — His Government at Vera Cruz — War Operations — Zuloaga's Difficulties — His Change of Policy — Echeagaray's Pronunciamiento and Plan — Robles Pezuela's Reformed Plan — Zuloaga Set Aside — Miramon Comes to the Front — Zuloaga Reinstated — Robles Pezuela Retires — Zuloaga Names a Substitute — Miramon as President — His Campaign in Vera Cruz a Failure — Battle of Tacubaya — Constitutionalists' Defeat — A Day of Horrors and its Evil Consequences 738
CHAPTER XXX.
TRIUMPH OF THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS.
1859-1861.
United States Recognition of Juarez — Miramon's Action — Confiscation of Church Property — Interior Campaign of 1859 — Treaties Miramon's Second Expedition to Vera Cruz — United States Armed Intervention — Interior Campaign of 1860 — Miramon's Return to Mexico and Resignation — President Pavon — Miramon's Title to the Presidency — Approach of Constitutionalists — Miramon's Defeat and Escape — Juarez Triumphant Entry into Mexico 765