Lerdo de Tejada to Citizen, November 20, 1865

[Supplement to No. 121 of the official paper of the constitutional government of the Mexican republic, Chihuahua, November 21, 1865.—Translation.]

Department of Foreign Relations and Government.

[Circular.]

The citizen President of the republic left El Paso del Norte the 13th of this month, and arrived in this city to-day, where he has determined to locate the national government for the present.

The foreign invader remained but a few days at a time at any place in the very patriotic State of Chihuahua, and soon withdrew, without leaving a single officer to organize a government. He has thus been obliged to confess his inability to extend his dominion over the State and keep it; and that if, unfortunately, he found a few ungrateful children in Mexico, he found the great majority rejected the foreign yoke, that has only been imposed where bayonets could penetrate. The temporary plan of intervention will soon disappear from every part of the territory.

The President of the republic has returned to this capital amid the greatest patriotic demonstrations of its citizens; and he will continue to do his duty, as he always has done, in adversity as in prosperity, sustaining the cause of independence and the institutions of the republic.