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CHAPTER II. THE TRAVELLERS.
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At the period when our story takes place, Mexico was going through one of those terrible crises, whose periodical return has gradually brought this hapless country into the extremity1 to which it is now reduced, and whence it cannot possibly emerge unaided. The following are the facts that occurred:—
General Zuloaga, nominated President of the Republic, one day found—it is not known why—power too oppressive for his shoulders, and abdicated2 in favour of General don Miguel Miramón, who was consequently appointed interim3 President. The latter, an energetic and most ambitious man, began by governing at Mexico, where he was careful in the first instance to have his nomination4 to the first magistracy approved by Congress, who unanimously elected him, and by the ayuntamiento.
Miramón hence found himself de facto and de jure legitimate5 interim President; that is to say, for the period that must still elapse until the general elections.
Matters went on tolerably well for a considerable period; but Zuloaga, doubtless wearied of the obscurity in which he was living, altered his mind one fine day, and suddenly at a moment when it was least expected, issued a proclamation to the people, came to an understanding with the partisans7 of Juárez, who, in his quality of Vice8 President on Zuloaga's abdication9, had not recognized the new President, but had himself elected constitutional President at Veracruz by a so-called national junta10, and published a decree, by which he revoked11 his abdication, and took back from Miramón the power he had
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