legilimalcly represented by its Legislature, Protest in the most solemn manner that having confederated hy virtue of the Fundamental compact, and under Lhe basis which in it is established, does not acknowledge nor will nol acknowledge the measures and provisions which emanate from the General Congress, if lhey are nol regulated in conformity, with provisions and requisites which il prescribes in said articles, nor will admit of any other reforms of the constitution than such as are subjected lo the course which it requires," and in regard lo the disbanding of the Civic Militia, the same legislature declares- The Civic l\'lilitia in all the republic are reduced or more properly speaking, the only bulwark of Liberty, and the rights of the community are destroyed. The General Government which should put its attention to the revolutions of the South, prepares an expedition of troops against a pacific state, such as is Zacalecas, that has given so many days of Glory to the Nation, by brideling arbitrary power and abuses- The commander General of the Internal States of the East, intervening in the Interior administration of the State of Coahuila and Texas, in the most scandalous manner even to the dictating of orders lo prevent Laws, made by the Legislature, being complied with, moving the troops from the places which they guard on the frontier, and where they are necessary to protect the inhabitants from the barbarous Indians, and is bringing them towards this capital in order without doubt to suppress the supreme authorities. The General Government to whom this body has applied to curtail these abuses, and advances of the ~lilitary authority, preserve a profound silence in this delicate affair, so that every thing indicates the dangerous road we are traveling in, and which, should there not be every degree of reflection, prudence, and mildness of procedure, we shall again be involved in all lhe disaslers of a civil war and the misfortunes consequent upon it even more afflicting and terrifying, than any which have preceded." To compel obedience and reduce these slates to submission, Santa Anna on the 18th day of April last marched from the city of Mexico al head of six thousand men. His first attack was on the gallant, patriotic and Republican state of Zaccatecas whose citizens he defeated in battle, and making prisoner the Governor, and dispersing the congress, garrisons the whole country with strong garrisons: the same fate is nearly sustained by Durango. and
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