congress, when he sustained the government in raising funds on the ecclesiastical property for the war against the United States. In 1847 he was chosen constitutional governor of Oajaca, reëlected in 1849, and discharged the office till 1852, when he retired to private life, the constitution not permitting a second reëlection. These five years of service gave him renown throughout the republic. After his surrender of the executive authority, he became president of his beloved instituto, and opened a law office, being then as poor, plain, and honest as before he held his first public trust. But he was allowed only a few months' rest. His presence in the country was dangerous to any tyrannical ruler.[1]
After the triumph of the revolution of Ayutla, we have seen Juarez a member of the president's cabinet, and later appointed governor of Oajaca in 1856. His administration at this time was marked by much ability and energy. Among the many benefits it conferred on the state was the restoration of the instituto de ciencias which Santa Anna had suppressed. In 1857 he was chosen constitutional governor of the state by 112,000 direct votes.
The blow which the constitutionalists received by Parrodi's surrender tended to decrease their number, as well as that of the towns which had hitherto rec-
- ↑ The conservatives having triumphed in Oajaca in January 1853, Santa Anna arrived in Mexico in April; a few months later he had Juarez banished from his home to Jalapa. Soon after he ordered him to Huamantla, and on arriving in Puebla, the next day, Santa Anna's son José arrested him, and without allowing him time even to get his clothes, conveyed him in a closed carriage seventy leagues to the pier at Vera Cruz. After a confinement of a few days in San Juan de Ulúa, he was put on board the British mail steamer without even paying for his passage, or allowing him time to procure money to live on during an indefinite period of exile. Some friends, however, went to his aid, and paid his passage to Habana and thence to New Orleans. At the last-named place he lived on the little his wife and friends could send him, and we are assured that at times he had to eke out a livelihood by twisting cigars. He remained in New Orleans till July 1855, when he went to Acapulco, via Panamá, and joined General Alvarez, then commanding the forces in revolt against the dictator Santa Anna, and was made a councillor of state. Zerecero, Mem., 536-42; Baz, Vida de Juarez, 78-91; Rivera, Gob. de Méx., ii. 592; Id., Hist. Jalapa, iv. 426, 505; Juarez, Vida del Ciud., 13.
