History of Central America, Volume 3, 1801-1887: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 8Bancroft, Hubert Howe
History
History of Central America, Volume 3, 1801-1887: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 8
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Central America -- History
The two legislative chambers were installed at San Vicente on the 17th
of September, and on the 20th counted the votes for president of the
state. No candidate having the requisite majority, Guzman was asked
to continue provisionally in charge of the government. His inaugural
address was a repetition of his manifesto of the 7th, greatly pleasing
the conservatives.[XIV-10] But harmony was not long to prevail between
Salvador and Guatemala. The trouble arose from the independent action
of Salvador in granting an asylum to the remnants of Morazan's forces
against the protests of Guatemala and Honduras, even though the final
decree of admission contained some very severe clauses.[XIV-11] Another
cause of dissatisfaction against Salvador was that Guzman would not
muzzle the press. The independence of Guzman, and the disposition
shown by Malespin not to be at all times a facile instrument of the
aristocrats, prompted the latter to promote an insurrection of the
volcaneños of Santa Ana for their overthrow.[XIV-12] Salvador, though
under the pressure of aristocratic control, still had a leaven of
progression that made itself felt. The publication of _El Amigo del
Pueblo_ was an evidence of this fact. The Aycinenas, Pavon, Luis
Batres, and Chatfield, unable to compete with it in the field of
discussion, demanded its suppression.[XIV-13]
Guzman in his correspondence with Pavon upheld that journal, and
Malespin would read it with satisfaction.[XIV-14] Guatemala resolved at
least to use coercion. Carrera established his headquarters at Jutiapa
to favor the volcaneños in their rebellion.[XIV-15]
[Sidenote: REVOLUTION.]
The cordial reception given in October to Colonel M. Quijans,
commissioner accredited by Nicaragua to Salvador to negotiate a treaty
of friendship and alliance, was displeasing to Bishop Viteri, who took
advantage of Guzman's absence at San Vicente, in the latter part of
that month, to bring about a quarrel between him and Malespin. The
latter at this time was said to be in poor health, and the bishop often
visited him, and in other ways manifested interest for him. Viteri
had directed his clergy to abstain from interference in political
affairs, and yet he preached against Morazan and those who had
banished Archbishop Casans. The Dominican Vazquez[XIV-16] was virulent,
declaring that the ecclesiastical authority would never be under the
civil, and threatening the people that the priests would abandon them
to suffer from plagues, epidemics, war, and famine, if they continued
their iniquitous hostility to the church.[XIV-17]
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