the country.[1] Her navy- — she had none; and her privateer commissions, and certificates of citizenship, were bandied about in the market, without purchasers or bidders.[2]
General Anaya's term of office expiring on the 8th of January, he was succeeded by Peña y Peña, as President of the Supreme Court of Justice. There was no change, however, in the determination of those at the head of the government, to conclude a peace. Attempts to incite a revolt were made during the winter, in the states of San Luis, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Oajaca, by the Puros and the followers of Santa Anna and Paredes; and, in January, a pronunciamento was issued, at San Luis Potosi, in favor of continuing the war, and against the course pursued by the administration. But the Mexican Executive was firm and decided, and his vigilant measures prevented an outbreak. The negotiations were continued, and on the 2nd of February, 1848, a Treaty of Peace was signed, by the Mexican Commissioners and Mr. Trist, at the city of Guadeloupe Hidalgo.
- ↑ General Scott ordered a yearly contribution to be paid by the Mexican States, (New Mexico, California and Yucatan excepted,) amounting in the aggregate, for the year 1848, to $2,745,000, which was nearly quadruple the former annual assessments of the federal government of Mexico.
- ↑ Fears were entertained in our principal commercial cities, prior to the commencement of the war, that serious injury would be inflicted on American commerce, in the event of the occurrence of hostilities, by Mexican privateers. "With Mexico," said Mr. Theodore Sedgwick, in his "Thoughts on the Proposed Annexation of Texas," (p. 22, second edition, New York, 184-1,) — "with Mexico no glory can be earned, and she has scarcely a dollar afloat, — while the privateers, the legalized pirates of all mankind, would sweep our commerce from the seas." These apprehensions proved to be unfounded, or rather, they failed to be realized.
