have risen in force in different quarters; for the capital was in a ferment, and spasmodic though ineffectual pronunciamientos took place during the summer and autumn in the provinces around. Even the troops, on which Marquez counted in vain, rose for a moment with Santanist cries against the unpopular governor of San Luis Potosí[1], and farther north in Tamaulipas a band did succeed in holding its ground for some time;[2] while in the Mizteca the Indians sought to renew their former prolonged fray, with its attendant raids and turmoil,[3] although General Álvarez this time prevented it.
The feebleness of these outbreaks was due rather to inherent weakness than to efforts of the governments to check them, as may be instanced by the impunity with which Governor Cosío of Zacatecas manœuvred the dissolution of the local legislature and bid defiance to the supreme authorities when they sought to interfere.[4] The desolation of the late war was still too fresh among the people for them to encourage the petty military pronunciamientos; and more, the war of races in Yucatan, and in the Sierra Gorda, which bordered on the valley of Mexico itself, acted as a fear-inspiring sedative on the white and mixed races, especially as it was well understood that revo-
- ↑ Los Reyes. General Uraga quarrelled with him, and withdrew his men from the city, leaving it exposed to the revolted Indians of the ranges.
- ↑ Under leadership of Flores. About the same time that he raised the standard of revolt, in June, a conspiracy was discovered at Orizaba. Three months later a man named Villalva made a call for Santa Anna at Cocula, troops of Izcúar displayed mutinous sentiments, and the natives of Tlascala rose against tax collectors. Details of these movements are given in Universal, Siglo XIX., etc., for June to Oct. 1849, passim.
- ↑ They appear to have been encouraged by a military outbreak at Temascaltepec and Sultepec under Zamudio and E. Leon, and Felipe Santiago figured as the chief leader among the score of villages which had rallied. Heraldo, Jan. 17, 19; Universal, June 26, 27, July 1, 1849. Allusions in Мéх., Меm. Рolit., 1850, 1-62, ар. 1-13; Revisor, Jan. 12, 1830, etc.
- ↑ Partly by seeking to substitute the vice-governor, Garcia. In this case, however, the governor had the people chiefly on his side, for the legislature was taking a course not wholly in accord with the constitution. Zacatecano, no. 118, etc.; Universal, Oct. 6, 8, 11, 23, 1849. There were troubles also in and round the federal district that called the attention of the government. Id., Sept. 10th, 25th, attended by an increase of the garrison. Méx., Legisl. Меј., 1849, 179.
