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the doing of justice to our general discontent. A great imposture: the discontented ones are not few, but we are the._majority of the Costa- rican people, for, excepting the relatives and • accomplices of Senor ]\fora, all the remainder, all, despite his administration. The follow- ing acts will show the reason. We now see for what we have to thank the administration of ]\fora & Company, and the good which we have received from it in the period of nine years during which its absolutism has weighed upon our un- successful Republic. These we find in part in a series of charges which were published in its honor, at the beginning of this year, in a South- .American paper, from which we extract the following, "He has trampled the Constitution under foot, leaving it without life." . "He has been a perjurer, violating the oath which he had taken before God and man to support the constitution." "He has usurped the legislative power, power which resides solely in the sovereign people, for it has created, by force of corruption~ intrigues or infamy, an assembly of deputies (the approvers of his acts), taken partly from the bosom of his family and partly without ability, ousting the legitimate representatives of the people because they did not obey him. "He has usurped the judicial power, appointing judges without the ability to judge, or who are molded to give judgment to win the ap- probation of Mora. He has elevated himself personaJly to an absolute tribunal. He has pronounced sentence in many cases in which he him- self was plaintiff and defendant; he has annulled judgments without appeal, thus destroying every form of individual guarantee; he has compromised his country with foreign countries by his wicked acts. He has. disposed of private property, he himself capriciously legislat- ing for his own benefit or that of his relatives. He has disposed of the public money, misapplying part of it; and appropriating the larger part to himself; disposing of it without ever rendering account of its investment. He has created a multitude of unnecessary offices in which to place his relatives, associates and accom- plices. He has divided his dictatorship with his brother who exercises mili- tary authority; he has raised an army from the flower of the country to have it wage war on a newspaper, because it disclosed part of his wicked deeds; he (together with his brother) has cowardly abandoned that same army, allowing it to perish from hunger, pestilence and pov- erty by fleeing from Rivas in April 1856. For these and many other analogous acts, Senor J\fora complains that we are not grateful to him. What will the near future, say when we state that: In March 1856 you took to Nicaragua the flower of our youth· to make war on a little newspaper, taking them under the pretext of liberating our brothers, the Nicaraguans, from the tyranny of Walker ! Vain pretext ! Who is to blame for the sufferings of Nicaragua, of our own people, and, finally, of those of all Central America? To solve this question we need only remind Senor J\fora that he is the one who fomented the revolution in Nicaragua, that he supplied sums of money and a large amount o~ arms and. 3:m1;11unition to the democratic party to carry ·on the war agamst the leg1hm1sts, that
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