PART III
THE ERA OF CONSTITUTION MAKING
CHAPTER I — The liberals in power—freire and pinto | |
| Freire's rule — Doings of the congress — The new tariff — The first constitution — Freire's unsuccessful expedition to Chiloé — Dissatisfaction and demoralization — Dissolution of the senate and setting aside of the constitution — Freire's efforts to build a
navy — Cienfuegos, Muzi and Ferreti — First troubles with the church — Financial difficulties — Revival of the estancos — Political excitement and attempted assassinations — Congress dissolved — Troubles in the new congress — Political parties — Freire's second expedition to Chiloé — Defeat of the royalists and the incorporation of Chiloé into the republic, — Attempts to form a confederacy — Freire first president, Pinto vice-president — Freire resigns — Pinto assumes the office of president — The last acts of the congress — Troubles with the Araucanians — Difficulty between a British officer and a Chilean — Assembling of congress — Further efforts to draft a constitution — Pinto resigns — Party agitations |
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| CHAPTER II — The conservatives in power — prieto and PORTALES — freire's REVOLUTION EXPEDITION AGAINST PERU THE BATTLE OF YUNGAY | |
| Political changes and disturbances — Revolution started by Prieto — Junta formed and congress called — Vicuna, Tagle, Ovalle, Portales — Deplorable condition of the country — The battle of Lircay — Bulnes dispatched against the Pincheiras — The constitution of 1833 — Freire captured and banished — Santa Cruz — Affairs in Peru and Bolivia — War with the confederation of Peru and Bolivia — Death of Portales — Defeat of Santa Cruz — Distinguished scholars — Educational matters — William Wheelright, and the first steamers — Church dignitaries — Markets and finances | 216 |
CHAPTER III — The administrations of presidents bulnes and montt — the civil war of 1859 | |
| Bulnes' cabinet — University at Santiago — Bello— Literature, | |
