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vote for Guerrero and Esteva. He was encouraged still more by many of the Escoceses members with promises which .they had no intention of keeping. In order to more fully assure his success and to place it beyond doubt, he appeared in the midst of the Assembly at the time the election was to be held and in a high and arrogant voice said that, as the will of the people was indisputably in favor of Messrs. Guer- rero and Esteva, he hoped that the Legislature of Veracruz would not produce discord in the country by opposing this will, emphatically adding that if that body forgot the obligations which it owed to the country, treated the petitions of the municipalities with disdain, and cast its vote against public sentiment, the people would certainly take up arms, and that without doubt he would place himself at their head. Having stated this, he left the hall with all the importance of Crom- well when he dissolved the Rurnp Parliament. He had scarcely left when, in contempt of his threat, the election was held, and the vote cast, not in favor of Gu~rrero, but of Pedraza. The news of this result was like a thunderbolt to him. He was filled with anger and despair, and, burning with a desire for vengeance, he returned to his mansion, pretending illness, and remained hidden from everyone for some time in order to calm himself and to regain his energy. During the few hours of his retirement he occupied him- self in considering the part which he should play under the circulI,l- stances, and concluded that he would foment an outbreak among the ignorant and inflammable classes. In accordance with this, eight thou- sand men ran through the streets that night with burning torches, accusing the Legislature of having been bribed by the Spaniards' gold, and shouting: "Long live Guerrero, the President of the Republic!" The town council also assembled and declared itself opposed to the election of Pedraza. The Legislature was able to sustain itself better than Faifulla had expected, because Pedraza, foreseeing such difficulties, had ordered the Commanding General Mora to J alapa with a sufficient force to maintain order and repress any attempt toward an insurrec- tion. The Legislature, supported by the military force and under the shadow of its protection, continued its deliberations and took vigorous and active measures against the rebels. The Vice-Governor was sus- pended from office and ordered to be punished as a traitor, the council was dissolved and lawsuits were instituted against many who were im- plicated. Farfulla became extraordinarily alarmed on seeing the consequences of his foolhardiness. His enemies persecuted him with a severity which he had not expected. He was terrified at his indiscreetness. He had supposed that the Escoceses were completely humiliated and overwhelmed by recent events and would not dare to proceed against him, whatever might be the measures they took against his subalterns; but when he saw with what firmness they worked and their determina- tion to catch up with him, he was suddenly filled with terrible fears for his personal safety, the only thing capable of causing him alarm, for little did he consider the consequences which were not going to cease at that point, but when his life was in danger no man was the victim of a greater fear than he. He was always bold but never courageous. His situation became more hopeless when he found him- self abandoned by his old friends in the Legislature and realized the
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