Congressman Lincoln and the return of the wooden leg of General Santa Anna

[Bill Richter]

As I understand it, Santa Ana was a Centralist or a caudillo out primarily for himself and Juarez was a Federalist or democrat, which is why Lincoln, Johnson, and Seward backed Juarez against the French. But Juarez was one of the few Mexican leaders who kept the faith with the people. The Juarez revolution was betrayed in the usual manner by Porfirio Diaz, one of his generals, a dictator until the 1910 revolution.