MEXICO. 165 ciples which led to the Insurrection of 1810 were daily gain- ing ground ; they were disseminated by the Indultados them- selves amongst their friends and connexions ; the Creole troops were their first proselytes : disaffection spread amongst them, until whole regiments were ripe for revolt; and when, in 1820, the re-establishment of the constitutional system in the Peninsula allowed again of a freedom of intercourse amongst the Creoles, they fovmd, with surprise, that all differences of opinion had disappeared, and that the army was ready to co- operate with its old enemies, the Insurgents, for the attain- ment of those political rights, against which it had fought during the earlier stages of the Revolution. Before we arrive, however, at this national movement, in which IturbTde took the lead, it will be necessary to take a rapid view of the events, by which it was preceded. After the death of Morelos, the country (as I have already stated) was divided into districts, in each of which one of his former lieutenants took the command. Guerrero occupied the Western coast, where he maintained himself in the fast- nesses of the Sierra Madre until the year 1821, when he joined IturbTde. Rayon commanded in the vicinity of Tlal- piajahua, where he successively occupied two fortified camps, one on the Cerro del Gallo,* and the other on that of C5p6r6. Teran held the district of Tehuacan, in La Paebla. Bravo was a wanderer in different parts of the country. The Baxio was tyrannized over by the Padre T5rres ; while Guadalupe Victoria occupied the important Province of Veracruz. The intervening spaces were overrun by insurgent parti zans. Al- bino Garcia, el Pachon, Epitacio Sanchez, Osorno, and Ser- rano, who sometimes acknowledged one of the principal chiefs as their superior, and sometimes acted independently of all ; as was the case with the famous, (or infamous) Vicente Go-
- It is from the Cerro del Gallo that the large view of Tlalpujahua is
taken, which is now engraving.
