[V-88] 'Son reos de alta traicion, y como tales, acreedores á la pena capital.' Arce, Mem., 108; Mem. Rev. Cent. Am., 151; Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 130.
[V-89] The text is given in full in Id., 131-4; Mem. Rev. Cent. Am., 253-7; Guat., Recop. Leyes, i. 254-6.
[V-90] 'Y por lo mismo sujetos á la jurisdiccion militar de los mismos Estados.' Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 134-5.
[V-91] Crowe, Gospel Cent. Am., 131, erroneously asserts that all their property was confiscated.
[V-92] Arce addressed to Morazan a most virulent protest. He afterward boasted that he had bearded the tyrant. The very fact that he dared to send such a document, and did not lose his head, proves that Morazan was not a tyrant. Arce, Mem., 113-14. Antonio José Irisarri, Manuel and Juan Montúfar, protested before the assembly and government of Salvador, before the assemblies of all the states of the union, before Gen. Morazan, before all the republics of America, and before all the free people of the world. The document was drawn up by Irisarri, who was not a soldier, though a colonel of militia; the language was pure and elegant, but it was virulent and full of sophistry. Irisarri also in several publications boasted of his courage in having sent such a document. He must have known that it would not have any effect on Morazan. The latter was a generous man. The effect would have been different on Rafael Carrera, whom the serviles at a later period made their master, as well as of the whole country. Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 135-6.
[V-93] Marure has it in Efem., 25; Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 137-9.
[V-94] Portrait in Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 138.
[V-95] The senate, dissolved in 1826, was reinstalled July 9th. Marure, Efem., 25.
[V-96] Arce, Mem., 122-3, and Mem. Rev. Cent. Am., 167-9, assert that they were not even allowed to make preparations for the journey, and many had furthermore to start on foot. The decree of expatriation was not, however, issued till August 22d, and José del Valle is said to have been its author. The persons thus exiled for life were Arce and Beltranena, and their ministers, Aycinena and his secretaries, Cáscaras, Villar, and other high military officers, Spaniards not naturalized that served the usurping governments, and many other prominent officers. Others were expatriated for various terms of years. Montúfar, Reseña Hist., i. 144-50; Marure, Efem., 26. Arce and Aycinena left Guatemala on the 7th of Sept. They were required to reside in the U. S. of Am.; embarked at Omoa for Belize, and thence went to New Orleans.
[V-97] Dunlop, Cent. Am., 177, and Squier, Travels, ii. 408, speak of plots against the republic as the reason, but it was probably what the liberal party alleged.