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Rh command to Antillon, and Marquez had to turn over his to J. M. Arteaga.

In a circular of the minister of war to the governors, after speaking of the evidences of hatred to the invaders displayed on thę journey, and of the necessity of forgetting party dissensions to think only of saving the country, they were reminded that authorities set up by the foreign bayonets were spurious and did not constitute a government, the governnent both de facto and de jure being in existence; and therefore, the republic could not and would not be bound by any treaties, compacts, or pledges, or by any acts of commission or omission of those functionaries, so-called. The governors replied with assurances of their unswerving fidelity to the republican government. Several of the states, San Luis Potosí at their head, having contemplated a coalition for their common defence, to which Zacatecas refused her assent, the president disapproved the scheme as unconstitutional.

The reactionists at the capital lost no time in their preparations for coming events, their action being