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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Intervention in Mexico. (search)
utional monarchy, the Chief of the State to have the title of Emperor. The imperial crown was to be offered to Ferdinand of Spain on Ferdinand's refusal to proceed to Mexico and assume the Imperial dignity, to his brother. Don Carlos; on his refusal, to Don Francisco de Paula, father of the present King Consort and in the last instance it was to be offered to the Archduke Charles, the well known adversary of the first Napoleon. There is a precedent, then, for offering the crown to an Austrian Prince. In case all these refused, the Sovereign was to be elected by the Mexican Cortes. Ferdinand of Spain declined the honor for himself and his brother; he had then no children. In spite of these successive refusal Iturbide remained faithful to his monarchical principles, and to the election of an independent sovereign, and he gave the world a proof of his sincerity by proclaiming himself Emperor of Mexico by the style and title of Augustin the First. But his reign was brief, it la