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| CHAPTER XV. | |
| REPUBLICAN RECONSTRUCTION. | |
| 1867-1868. | |
| Movements of Marquez and Diaz — The Last Imperial Cabinet — Progress of Republican Arms — Marquez in Mexico — Diaz Besieges the City — Results of Intervention — Juarez' Entry into the Capital — New Republican Cabinet — Treatment of Rebels and Traitors — Proposed Reforms — Parties and Principles — Election Laws — Popular Discontent — Diplomatic Relations | 333 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| END OF THE JUAREZ REGIME. | |
| 1868-1872. | |
| Under the New Order of Things — Reelection of Juarez — Seditions and Uprisings — Ministerial Crisis — Earthquakes and Hurricanes — Creation of New States — Administrative Reorganization and Improvements — Pronunciamientos and Revolutions — Insecurity — Amnesty — Political Parties — Juaristas, Lerdistas, and Porfiristas — Plan of La Noria — Failure of the Porfiristas — Death of Juarez — Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada Installed as President — Remains of Juarez — Reflections on his Career | 365 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| LERDO PRESIDENT. | |
| 1872-1874. | |
| Effect of Juarez' Death — Ledro Retains the Ministers of Juarez — General Amnesty Proclaimed — Diaz Refuses to Accept It — Conflagration in the Palace — The Country Tranquilized — Diaz Submits — Lerdo Elected Constitutional President — His Popularity — He Persists in Retaining the Ministers — Disappointment — Closing of Congress — The Vera Cruz Railroad — The Tepic Rebellion — Guadalajara Threatened — Capture and Death of Lozada — End of the Rebellion — The District of Tepec — Congressional Acts — Expulsion of the Jesuits — Passage of the Reform Laws — Disturbances — Seventh Constitutional Congress | 390 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| LERDO, IGLESIAS, AND DIAZ. | |
| 1874-1876. | |
| Political Troubles in the States — Affairs in Yucatan — Religious Uprising in Michoacan — Condition of the Country — Progress of Protestantism — The Stamp Act — Prerogatives of the Supreme Court Attacked — Decline of Lerdo's Popularity — Political Persecutions — Reelection Schemes — Diaz Leaves Mexico — Insurrection in Oajaea — A Revolutionary Blaze — Plans of Tuxtepec and Palo Blanco — Diaz in the North — His Return to Oajaea — Fraudulent Elections — Lerdo Proclaimed Reëlected — Iglesias Protests — He Assumes the Executive Power — Diaz Defeats Alatorre at Tecoac — Flight of Lerdo — Constitutionalist versus Revolutionist — Diaz Enters the Capital — Proclaims Himself Executive — Iglesias Leaves the Country — Diaz at the Head | 408 |
