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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 181
1834 A11g. 30, L. DE ZAVALA, TO F. LOl\IBARDO, (l\IEXICO, · ::\IEXIC0] 21 Excellent Sir-I cannot answer the review relative to public events in Mexico which your Excellency -presents to this Legation in a letter of the 28th. of last June, without showing you the state of my political conscience in regard to those events and without ex- pressing my convictions; because, if silent, I migl1t be confused with that party of demoralized men who either have no system or firm principles, or if they have, they sell them in order to maintain themselves in offices which th~y could not haye obtained by any other means; and who finally are traitors to their chiefs or the rulers wbo so lightly placed their confidence in them. I enter upon the subject.-! believe that the General Congress has made mis- takes, among others, that of adjourning before the session period had ended.-! also believe that the representatives thus dissolved had neither the right nor the power to reassemble, the period of the regular session having passed. These are my opinions. · But I also believe that the Government of the President has com- pletely destroyed the Constitution by not assembling the cabinet, the constitutional body and a vital element of our form of government. This body assembled,-all difficulties would have been overcome, he- cause then it was possible to call the legislative body in extraor- dinary session for the purpose which would be made known. But it is evident that it did not want to do this, and more evident that that which it did want was to shake off the yoke of national repre- sentation. Instead of strangling in infancy those ridiculous publica- tions which the l\Iinister of Relations described in official documents as public opinion, it should have repressed its well-lmown authors, and the energetic voice of the President ,vould have triumphed for the· third time this year, and for the seventh dtiring the period of ~is puhlic life, over the forces of a party which can never rule in the United l\Iexica.Jl States.- Exactly the opposite was done: the ecclesiastic-military alarm was created, official periodicals evapo- rated in eulogies of those tumultuous mov~ments, in speeches against a Congress which, whatever may have been its aberrations, was the first to enter with honor and glory upon a career of reforms estab- lished by social necessities and by the conservation of liberty. The friends of abuse who saw the arm of power protecting their work clared to raise their heads, and they sang their triumph in the very moment of their last agony-The :Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States who writes, would be untrue to his trust, if he did not show the Chief of the Republic with republican frankness and regardless of his apparent breach of good faith, that which he thinks. Consequently, he cannot continue in a charge which, be- cause his ideas are in opposition to the existing GoYernment, will not permit him to defend his principles, either in the press, in pri- vate conversation, or in court; for the reason thnt he has never 11 Cop_v by George Fisher. In no. 183.
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