for which Rincon was arrested.[1] He effected his escape, however, took command of his battalion, and issued a proclamation to the effect that he would recognize no authority not emanating directly from the supreme federal powers.
Seconded by the artillery brigade, Rincon maintained himself upon the defensive, till finally the president ordered him to Tlaliscoyam, there to await further orders. The president also compelled several of the chief escoceses to remove to Jalapa; placed San Juan de Ulúa, which had been surrendered in 1825 to the Mexicans, in trusty hands; and in July Barragan, who was in command there, was superseded by Guerrero.[2]
The failure of their plans in Vera Cruz demoralized the escoceses, to the great joy of their opponents. The escoces party, which about the middle of 1827 had taken the name of novenarios, had spread in Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Guanajuato. Its members were not numerous, but among them figured several prominent political men, and not a few wealthy ones. The Spaniards belonged to it, and supported it in its work by contributions of money.[3] The society made a strenuous effort to recover its influence, proclaiming at Otumba on the 23d of December, 1827, the plan of Montaño, so called after an obscure lieutenant-colonel of the old insurgents, who was its figure-head, Nicolás Bravo, the grand master, being the real leader. The plan embraced four articles, namely:
- ↑ A riot occurred, during which the yorkinos in arms destroyed the press of their rivals, who were supported by the governor and General Barragan.
- ↑ The name novenarios was assumed because each member of the grand consistory had to catechise nine men and bring them into the society; each of these nine had to procure nine others, and so on, thus multiplying themsclves ad infinitum. The members of the escoces party also bore the names of hombres de bien, chaquetas, borbonistas, aristócratas, defensores de la constitucion. Atleta, 1830, Apr. 15, 467.
- ↑ Guerrero remained there a short time, during which Esteva assumed his office. Cor. Fed. Mex., 1827, Ap. 27 to Nov. 24; Bustamante, Voz de la Patria, ii. nos 21, 22, 25, and 26; Zavala, Revol. Mex., ii. 21-4; V. Cruz, Contestac. Guerr. 3-16; El Atleta, 1830, Ap. 16, 476; El Observador Rep. Mex., i. 36-8, 314-16, ii. 77-100; El Amigo del Pueblo, i. 13-15, ii. 200, ii. 19, 69; V. Cruz, Manif. Cong., 11-23; Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, ii. 425-39.
