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provisional president and his cabinet favored the policy of settling the Texan and American ques tions by compromise; but they encountered violent opposition from the press, the people, and the army, all of whom clamored for war. Amid the confusion, it had been arranged that the presidential office should be filled by a president constitutionally chosen. Con gress, on the 14th of September, 1845, counted the votes cast by the departments, and declared José Joaquin de Herrera elected; and on the 16th he was formally installed. In his inaugural address Presi dent Herrera promised to abstain from partisanship and to look after the army and finances. Of the Texan question he spoke vaguely.

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