Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — Sketch of Juarez. [ARTICLE]

Sketch of Juarez.

A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune 1 gives the following sketch of Juarez, the Constitutional President of Mexico: “He was born fifty-six years ago, in a mountainous district of Southern Mexico, and is by blood a pure Indian. His father raised a few sheep and cattle, and gained a scanty subsistence by the sale of their skins. At twelve years of age the young Juarez ran off to attend a fair, and being afraid or ashamed to return, he hired himself to a mule-driver, from whose service he passed into the service of a wealthy Spaniard, who, pleased with his intelligence, caused him to be taught to read and write. Still retaining the favor of his employer, he was sent tothe College of Oaxaca, and having chosen the profession o/the law, which the revolution had opened to men of his caste, he rose rapidly to the head of h ; s profession, and, with the triumph of Alvarez, was made Chief Justice, from which post he passed to that of the Presidency,.”