Show I 1 MEXICO santa anna anaa has been made in fact though not in name by the authorized perpetuation of his and it is stated to be the general belief in 1 th the e city of mexico that he will soon be elected I 1 emperor under the title of antonio primero those californian and other menaced expeditions furnish the steps step by which santa anna mounts to the supreme power the great one legged is the luckiest of men the mexicans can can no more do without him than without garlic with one part of him under ground and the other part above it he is a fitting representative of the mexican state still he is apparently the ablest man in mexico and not no t unreasonably unreason ably do the people cling to his wooden I 1 leg as to the only staff of their national salvation |