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the charge of treason launched forth so hastily by the Deputy from Nuevo Leon and Coahuila.
«We have not the right to investigate what may be the intentions of Mr. Aguirre. Conscience is a sanctum into which we cannot penetrate, and we are only allowed to judge of facts from what is patent and apparent in them.
«In critical and solemn moments for the country, we do not think it prudent to sxcite alarms or distrust, or to attempt to depreciate the worthy citizen whose republican virtues, whose love for independence, whose sincere adhesion to our institutions are undoubted by the whole country, and whose constancy and integrity have contributed more than anything else to the re-establishment of the constitutional regimen.
«If in the pretended presidential question, and we say pretended, because really there is no such question, when the laws are clear and definite, as we shall soon demonstrate, it is the intention to extol one candidate, there is no necesity to depreciate the other, nor to ignore the thousand rights whereby he has acquired the acknowledgements of his fellow-citizens,
«But be this as it may, the accusation made by Mr. Aguirre is somewhat late, and it contradicts the eulogies which he, as President of Congress, offered to Juarez in his speech delivered on the day in which the sessions were opened. It cannot be said that the usual courtesies or the official urbanity demanded those eulogies. The President of Congress was only obliged to reply in general terms, and he was under no necessity to applaud the acts of the funtionary whom he now calls a traitor.
«Mr. Aguirre, when the sessions commenced, was among those who offered their support to the Executive for the purpose of consolidating the institutions, of securing the constitutional regime and of pacifying the country, how could he believe that such noble intentions as these could be held by the Magistrate whom he now calls a traitor.
«The election of Mr. Aguirre as President of Congress
