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Show SPANISH i Na 4i a ey bee eS) ; é ee v fare Vie Mt i 7 bal18 } ‘ | f { A \5 ‘aa ‘ Hib } ; @ ie ue mt ; | 1.5 a > ; i & { i }} seme a *@ : agpanen - US & » ee eae 4@ ime 4 ' i i ey . ‘ j 481 The indepen- excelled Vigil, Bautista Juan postmaster, in himself painting decorations; the excesivo independiente alcalde, Pedro Ar- ; 4 i Pe eaten : 4 1822 did Santa Fé behold such a splendid display. dientisimo Seat t ih Sau + % ry 1700 TO read aloud to the crowd at the postoffice, the governor reading a patriotic address from the city of Tepic, with a poetic effusion of that ‘liberalisimo europeo’ Don Pedro Negrete, on listening to which, all, from the ‘tierno parvulito’ to the ‘trémulo anciano,’ were beside themselves with joy, and filled the air with vivas, as Melgares shouted, ‘New Mexicans, this is the occasion for showing the heroic patriotism that inflames you; let your sentiments of liberty and gratitude be published abroad, and let us show tyrants that although we live at the very extremity of North America we love the holy religion of our fathers; that we cherish and protect the desired union between Spaniards of both hemispheres; and that, with our last drop of blood, we will sustain the sacred independence of the Mexican empire!’ The 6th of January, 1822, was set apart for a formal celebration, which should, if possible, excel that of Tepic. At dawn the salutes of artillery and the marching of processions began; and with the dawn of the next day, ended the grand baille at the palacio. Never 4 RULE, mendaris, led a triumphant paseo; and a grand loa de tres garantias was performed, by Alférez Santiago Abréu representing indepenTerrazas, religion, and Chap- dence, Curate and Vicar Juan Tomas lain Francisco Osio, the union. All through the day and night the villa was painted red with independence or death, and Governor Melgares wrote a flaming account of the whole affair for the Gaceta his Imperial.**® Doubtless Don Facundo, realizing the side on which the telling in lost was nothing that it bread was buttered, saw to story; and presumably the fall of Iturbide, a little later, was cele- brated with equal enthusiasm. ”’ solemnizar la Indepen516 Melgares, Facundo, Demonstraciones que para In Gaceta Imperial, March dencia del Imperio hizo la Ciudad de Sta. Fé, 1822. e 23, 26, 1822, ii., 85-93. of the five ey Naas Os ‘Beni e 10, 1822, New Mexico was made one to t gona Internas under a comandante general at Chihuahua, ay, Sage lier intendencia; that is, there Mem. Guerra, 1823, p. 25. was practically no change In Bancroft, Htst. Arizona @ in 7 nt Sore a: 309, sie gee of New List of Spanish governors and captains general aa oe Juan ee ea Juan de Ofiate, 1598-1608. ’ ’ Valverde y Antonio Pedro de Peralta, 1608-. ; 1717-22. . Juan de Estrada y Austria (%), ad ae A ae Mar Fernando de Argiiello, 1640 (?) a e interim, 1721 (%) - e 9 Z |