Hermenegildo Carrillo to General Triso Rafael Cordora, January 10, 1867

[Translation from the Sociedad of January 13.]

PROCLAMATION.

General Hermenegildo Carrillo to the Troops under his command:

Soldiers: Our native land is in danger. The men whom we believed to be the warmest defenders of our liberties, guardians of our interests and the integrity of our soil, have sold a considerable part of its territory, and invited our enemies to their support. You have already-seen the conduct of him whom they call our protector, in Matamoras. You already know that the banner of the stars has waved in that port which was occupied by forces of the United States after they had strewn the soil with innumerable corpses of our compatriots. They desire the extinction of our race, and then to possess themselves of our country. The North, our constant enemy, wants, under a plausible pretext, to penetrate into it, never again to abandon it. The foreign intervention having ceased, the cause which separates us from the imperial government no longer exists. Our duty calls us to-day around the banner which his Majesty, the Emperor has planted; let us rally around it; it is the flag which sustains our independence—let us battle without cessation against its enemies.

Soldiers! the hour of danger is at hand; Mexico expects everything from you, and I trust in your valor and patriotism.