acts on the part of Guatemala roused the agitation of a party, which encouraged Mexican troops to enter and take possession in August 1842.[1]
On the other hand appeared a series of unfortunate events and despotic acts that far outweighed the benefits conferred. Early spring frosts inflicted great injury on the crops round the capital, and the flight of laborers before the severe conscription law added to the scarcity. The usual indulgence in pronunciamientos and outbreaks rippled the political surface and spread their evil in different sections. Sonora was stirred by civil war, waged against Comandante General Urrea by Gándara, a native aspirant for power.[2] Lower California had a similar lighter experience, and the provinces eastward suffered from the usual bloody raids of wild Indians;[3] while the mountaineers of the Chilapa region rose against the government, and encouraged by the sheltering ranges and several military successes, they promoted an extensive if not very strong movement all along the Mescala into Puebla and Oajaca, which continued throughout this and the following years.[4]
- ↑ And by decree of Sept. 11th the territory was attached to Chiapas. Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., iv. 262-3; Diario Gob., Aug. 31, 1842, Feb. 8, 1843. Larrainzar, Soconusco, Méx., 1843, 1-194, reviews the question at length in favor of Mexico; also in Soc. Mex. Geog., Bol., ii. 121-68, 392, etc., while more or less contrary arguments may be found in Bustamante, Diario, MS., xlv. 119, 205; Gac. Ofic., Oct. 18, Dec. 24, 1842; Méx., Mem. Rel., 1814, 3.
- ↑ As will be related in Hist. North Mex. States, ii., this series.
- ↑ A treaty was celebrated with the Comanches on January 31, 1843, to be broken by the Indians at the first promising opportunity, as so many previous arrangements had been. Siglo XIX., Mar. 6, 1842, etc.
- ↑ The cause lay in certain acts of injustice by proprietors and judges. Diario Gob., ap. 26, 1842, etc. In Méx., Mem. Guerra, 1844, 51-9, the government course is naturally upheld and victories spoken of involving as many as 250 Indians killed; yet the war continued. The comandante general Álvarez was known to be hostile to Santa Anna, who dared not do aught than dissimulate; and he was supposed to be secretly in sympathy with the rebels. His elaborate Manifiesto of 145, 1-180, dɔes not wholly clear him. There was an agitation at this time to erect this region, the former Tecpan, into a separate department, Bravo and Alvarez, Maif., 1-35; Pap. Var., ixxxii. pt 7, cxxii. pt 2, and to establish two presidios, at Chilpancingo and Cuernavaca, to protect the route from Acapulco against robbers. Méx., Col. Ley., May 1854, 14-20.
