[XIII-12] The assembly considered a bill granting him large tracts of land.
[XIII-13] The constitution to be framed was to be ratified by the first subsequent council of double the no. of representatives. The doc. had 12 articles. Guat., Inf. Pavon, 2-5; Niles' Reg., lxvi. 242.
[XIII-14] On the 14th of March, 1844. Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 114-16.
[XIII-15] 'Consejo constituyente' it was first called; afterward it adopted the name of 'congreso constituyente.'
[XIII-16] Being appointed early in 1849 corregidor of Jutiapa; while on his way there he was murdered with others.
[XIII-17] They had counted on Carrera's aid, and he failed them, for which they again at their secret conferences reapplied to him the name antropófago.
[XIII-18] A number of persons were blindly persecuted, particularly Brigadier Monterrosa and his family. Barrundia, Rev. de los Partidos, in Montúfar, Reseña Hist., iv. 662.
[XIII-19] Duran's pledges went for nothing. Blood and extermination ended the drama of Feb. 1845. Id., 663-9; Dunlop's Cent. Am., 244-7.
[XIII-20] The most despotic captain-generals of the colonial period, without excepting the tyrant Bustamante, are not to be compared with these men. Barrundia, in trying to console the young men who bewailed the condition of the country, assured them that it was transitory, 'un régimen salvaje en pleno siglo XIX. no puede ser perpétuo en la América independiente. La luz nos viene por el Norte y por el Sur; solo el centro está en tinieblas, y esa noche lúgubre no puede ser eterna.' Montúfar, Reseña Hist., v. 9.
[XIII-21] Azmitia was an enlightened man, and thirsted for no one's blood; but his influence, outside of the foreign department, was small, and men, unheard and untried, were shot before his eyes, without his being able to prevent it. His friends claimed, however, that through him Guat. was spared many more acts of barbarity.