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TEXAS.
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in
as virulent activity as it had been ten years before,
when he was a suitor for the confirmation of
his contract of colonization.
On the 1st of June, little more than a fortnight
after Santa Anna had formally entered upon the
exercise of the Presidential duties, General Duran
promulgated a plan, at San Augustill de las Cuevas,
in favour of the church and the army, and calling
the illustrious Santa Anna to tllhe Supreme Dictatorship
of the Mexican nation. Although there
were the strongest grounds for believing that the
versatile and ambitious President had secretly instigated
this movement, he raised a large force, and
appointing Arista, one of Bastamente's most devoted
partisans, his second in command, left the capital
with the professed intention of quelling the revolt,
Lorenzo de Zavala, governor of Mexico, and a
political associate and supporter of Santa Anna
in federal principles, lhad in vain remonstrated
against the appointment of Arista to such an important
trust. The government troops had not
proceeded far when Arista, changing his views, declared
in favour of the Plan of Duran, and secured
the President's person, simultaneously proclaiming
him Dictator. News of the movement reached the
military in the capital, who joined in the cry of
" Santa Anna for Dictator!" but the Vice-President,
Gomez Farias, distrusting Santa Anna, and
convinced that the arrest was a voluntary trial of his
popularity, to test the probability of succeeding
in his ulterior aim of unconstitutional ascendancy,
rallied the Federalists against the soldiery, and, aided
by Zavala, f'rustrated the ingenious scheme of tll
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/30/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.