[XIII-22] It consisted of 222 articles, and was drawn up at Quezaltenango; it came to nothing. Pineda de Mont, in Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 86.
[XIII-23] Cruz had risen with Carrera, but had a mild disposition, and was liberal-minded. He learned erelong that the people had nothing to expect from the aristocrats.
[XIII-24] Barrundia left an account of all the proceedings. One man only, José Gándara, had the courage to back his convictions and vote for the constitution.
[XIII-25] The plan had been to shoot him as he came out of the cathedral. Dunlop's Cent. Am., 248; Iris' Españ., Dec. 12, 1846.
[XIII-26] The arms to be those Cent. Am. used on the obverse side of her coin, but so arranged that the sun and volcanoes should be in the centre of a shield, with the inscription, Guatemala en Centro América, 15 de Setiembre de 1821, having in the quiver an olive crown.
[XIII-27] A shield divided transversely into two quarters; the upper one on an open field azure with vertical bars argent; and the lower with three volcanoes on a light sky-blue field. Over the shield was a sun, and on each side of it two flags with the national colors displayed, and the extremities gathered downward, and knotted on the poles. On the right side of the shield is an oak bough, and on the left, one of laurel. On a white waving ribbon is the legend in golden letters, Guatimalæ Respublica sub D. O. M. protectione.
[XIII-28] The man-of-war flag has the coat of arms on the yellow stripe. The mercantile flag does not show the coat of arms. The flag consists of seven stripes; the uppermost and lowermost, or be it the 1st and 7th, blue; the 2d and 6th white; the 3d and 5th red; and the 4th, which is the centre one, yellow. Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 55-8; Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., vi. 119-20; Mex., Col. Ley. Ord., 1850-1; i. 388-9; Mex., Leg., 1851, 307-9. New national flag decreed Aug. 17, 1871. Guat., Recop. Leges. Gob. Democ., i. 9.
[XIII-29] With France, March 8, 1848, and one for the settlement of French claims, Aug. 18, 1854; Costa R., March 10, 1848; G. Britain, Feb. 20, 1849; U. S., March 20, 1849; Belgium, Apr. 1849; Mex., Nov. 1850; the pope, Oct. 7, 1852; Peru, 1857; and others in later times.
[XIII-30] Crosby's Events in Cal., MS., 103. It tried to avoid entanglements in the questions then pending between Spain and Peru. The time came, however, in 1875, when the govt was not afraid to make recognition of Cuba, then in the throes of revolution for independence from Spain as a nation.
[XIII-31] Full particulars on the foreign relations may be found in Guat., Recop. Ley., i. 303-81, 423-30; Id., Gob. Dem., i. 209-19; Squier's Trav., ii. 451-2; Annals Brit. Legis., 1866, 333; Guat., Gac., Feb. 21, March 7, May 3, 1850; July 29, 1853; Jan. 27, Apr. 7, 1854; Comm. Rel. Flagg's Rept., i. 792; Derecho Intern. Mex., 2d pt, 325-8; Mex., Mem. Rel., 1851, 10-11; Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., v. 755-7; Nic. Corr. Ist., May 1, June 1, Aug. 1, 1849; Id., Gac. Ofic., Feb. 25, 1854; Aug. 4, 1866; Costa R., Gac., Feb. 13, March 13, June 10, 1854; Salv., Gac., Jan. 13, 1854; Crosby's Events in Cal., MS., 90-5, 102-4; Rocha, Cód. Nic., i. 141-5; Salv., Diario Ofic., Apr. 20, Sept. 9, 1875; Guat., Mem. Rel., 1882, 26-7, and annex 8; La Estrella de Occid., Dec. 2, 1864.