[XIV-22] A physician by profession, and a modest, honorable citizen, actuated by the purest motives; an excellent family man and friend; but unfortunately, as events showed, he was weak when firmness and resolution were demanded to uphold his position. Aguilar, in his later years, after losing his wife, was ordained as a priest.
[XIV-23] Eustaquio Cuéllar, J. M. San Martin, J. M. Zelaya, the clergyman, Isidro Menendez, and Indalecio Cordero.
[XIV-24] He hinted that he had power to annex the state to the archdiocese of Guat. The text of his letter is in Montúfar, Reseña Hist., v. 54-5.
[XIV-25] The officer Anjelino, sent to reënforce the guard of the jail, was waylaid, and nearly murdered, and in that condition taken to the bishop's house, where the bishop abused him by word of mouth, and turned him over to the rabble, by whom he was stabbed, beaten, and kicked. He was, however, rescued by the priest M. Serrano, and taken back into the bishop's house. These facts were testified to by Anjelino, in the criminal prosecution of Viteri.
[XIV-26] Nic., Registro Ofic., 330; Dunlop's Cent. Am., 249-50; Iris, Esp., Oct. 3, 1846.
[XIV-27] It is given in full in Montúfar, Reseña Hist., v. 70-4.
[XIV-28] The decree was dated July 27, 1846, and referred to articles 210-13, 304-9.
[XIV-29] The Salvadoran govt published a decree against seditious persons from Hond. Nic., Registro Ofic., 272-3. The authorities of Hond. solemnly promised that Viteri should not be allowed to reside near the Salv. frontier; but the promise went for nothing; Viteri and Malespin being aided from that state. They found material assistance in Nacaome, Tegucigalpa, Sensenti, and Guarita. Guardiola's note of Aug. 31, 1846, to the min.-gen. of Salv., in Id., v. 87, 254-7.
[XIV-30] His decree of Feb. 23, and pastoral of June 10, 1845.
[XIV-31] His execution left a bad impression in the public mind. Ignacio Malespin had been a friend of Morazan, served with him in 1840, and was one of the heroes of the capture of Guatemala as well as of the subsequent escape. He was gentle, kind, and sociable, and but for Viteri's influence never would have joined the revolution. He ought to have been spared. The women of San Salvador, both old and young, pleaded for a commutation of his sentence, but the govt was relentless.