In March 1861, two presidents of Mexico and the United States were sworn in: Benito Jurez and Abraham Lincoln.
In Mexico, the The Reformed War ended with the liberal victory of December 1860But the country was disaster and the Conservative Party lived another day to fight. In the United States, the north and south civil war was on the brink of the civil war, and by the end of February, seven states separated from the union.
Lincoln, who followed the 1858 defeat in the US Senate by winning the country’s highest position in 1860, did not hear from a European leader when he won the presidency. He never traveled outside the United States. So Lincoln never went to Mexico, and he could not have met a Mexican until a lucky snow day in January 1861.
At the time of Lincoln’s swearing -in, Matias Romero was working for a year at the Mexican Legist in Washington DC. In January 1861, the enthusiastic and ambitious young diplomat and the future Mexican Treasury Secretary received a letter, “You must go to the place where the President (Juaves) is elected to the residence of the president, in the name of the government. Animation, that restriction, enters the president, that restriction, entering the president, entering the leader, entering the leader, what is the control, the control, the restriction, the restriction, the restriction, the restriction, the restriction, the restriction. If you enter, the restriction is that the opportunity is animated, and the armor is animated.
Romero Lincoln sent a letter of congratulations to his election. Lincoln acknowledged the letter and congratulated the people of Mexico on the joy, prosperity and freedom of the people. In his government’s instructions, he set out to meet Romero Springfield and congratulate the newly elected president personally. Although his support for Mexico went to 1846, Rombero first met Juvenil Lincoln, who believed in Juarrez that he could create friendly relations with the Republicans.
As a young congressman from Illinois, President James K. Sivakumar was the 1846 invasion of Texas, who launched the Mexican-American war. Lincoln did not oppose the regional expansion, but opposed the expansion of slavery. He also respected Mexico’s sovereignty, and thought that the United States had a good relationship with its southern neighbors.
He accused Bolk of using a lie to justify a war. After a confrontation in the controversial territory of South Texas, Polk declared that “American blood is shed on American soil”, and as a result, there was a war with Mexico.
Lincoln introduced the first eight resolutions against the war. The first questioned the Constitution of the War and challenged the “space” to the war supporters. His resolutions were known as “Spot Resolutions”, and people called him “Spatty Lincoln”. His opposition to war with his members in Illinois was very influential and he decided not to run for re -election.
Lincoln is not the main American opposing the war. John Quinzi Adams and Henry David Tore openly challenged the war effort. Ulysses S. Grand said in his memoir, “The most unfair war that waged as a mighty against the weak nation.” The United States won the war and increased its territory by 750,000 square miles, which reduced Mexico’s territory by half.
Explaining Lincoln about the situation of Mexico, the Romeo crowd launched the crowd: New President Benito Jurez accepted the leadership of a country that was disastrous by civil fights, and its treasury diminished. But Lincoln believed that the friendship between the two countries was premature. The Romeo papers protected in the Banco National de Mexico mentions that the conversation went well and Lincoln was taken with the young diplomat.
During the Independence War, Mexico received a lot of foreign debt. French emperor Napoleon III planned to challenge the United States to challenge the United States and planned to use Mexico’s debt to France as an excuse to occupy the nation and establish the colonial empire.
Mexico sought economic cooperation with the United States and should be considered a respected southern neighbor. Most importantly, the Mexican administration believed in Lincoln to respect Mexico’s sovereignty.
Romero American President and First Woman Mary Dod Lincoln and Union Generals Ulisses S. Grand and Philip developed a personal relationship with Sheridan, which would be very helpful in the struggle of Mexico against French. Lincoln was grateful to Romero, because she would often come with the first woman on shopping trips and freed Lincoln from a responsibility.
The US did not officially recognize the French rule in Mexico, but was neutral in war. However, the US needed Mexican troops to slow down the French progress. From the first meeting, Lincoln’s approval letter and his friendship with Lincoln used fertile Romero to raise US $ 18 million from major bankers to support Mexican troops. Grand helped him to protect Springfield guns, which are considered the best weapons.
In 1863, the French took the city of Mexico and founded Austrian Archbishop Fertinand Maxilion, because Emperor Maximian I. Mexico needed more weapons from the United States.
At the end of the American Civil War, Grand indirectly sent 50,000 troops to the lower border of the lower border, and advised them to lose 30,000 guns that could “find” the Mexican troops. By 1867, the Frenchmen withdrew from Mexico and Juaves won. The Mexican Republic was recovered, although Lincoln did not live to see it.
Lincoln’s bold position against the Mexican-American War and Benito Jurezin (sometimes referred to as Mexico’s Abraham Lincoln) loved him to the Mexican people. The support of political equality, economic opportunities and opposition to slavery proved that he shared their values.
Some historians have believed that if Lincoln lived, the two leaders would have formed a close alliance between the US and Mexico in economic and cultural matters. Some historians say they could not have had a close relationship because they had never met and had no correspondence between them. However, it is thought that Romero, as a diplomat, is thought to have carried news between the two leaders, and there is evidence that he had a conversation between the two of Romero’s documents.
If you go to Mexico city – in all the statues of Mexican historical people and events – you may have surprised the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The statue at Park Lincoln is similar to the original positions in the London Parliament Square (Lincoln Park in Chicago).
There are plenty of Lincoln statues in Mexico, including Dijuana’s Grand Bowlard, Basio de Heros and one of the Chiudat Jures. Washington DC also has a statue of Juarz
On April 15, 1966, President Linden Johnson dedicated the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Mexico, which refers to the friendship between the two countries. On October 26, 1967, Mexican President Gustavo Artas Washington reviewed the statue of Juarz in DC by dedicating the statue
