Proclamations

Title -   El Presidente Constitucional a la Republica Mexicana. Mexicanos: Aunque acabo de dirigiros la palabra, tengo el deber de manifestaros mas detenidamente, que la obra grandiosa y nacional del 6 de Diciembre vuelva á estar amenazada…

Translated Title(s) -   The Constitutional President. To the Mexican Republic. Mexicans: although I just addressed you, I feel it is my duty to express to you in more detail that the magnificent and national effort of December 6th is once again in danger…

Date -   December 22, 1845

Publication Information -   Mexico City, December 22, 1845

Format -   Broadsides (notices); Proclamations

Collection -   Mexican War broadsides collection, 1844-1859. The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections.

Call Number -   GO31 Dec 22, 1845

Description -   On December 22, 1845, as troops under General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga marched on the capital, President José Joaquín de Herrera called upon the nation to rally behind the federalist government. In his indictment of the rebels, Herrera drew a distinction between the revolt and “the magnificent and national effort of December 6th,”-- the coup d’état which had brought him to power a little more than a year earlier.