choosing the successful Victoria for lieutenant-general, under the pretence of adhering to the congress.[1]
Rosains gave vent to his rage by sending an agent to ravage and reduce to ashes the town of San Andres, simply because the otherwise well disposed population had been reduced by his rivals.[2] Undaunted as ever, he thereupon collected all the force he could muster against the leaders in Vera Cruz. His men by no means relished a campaign against brethren in arms, and their chief having been repulsed on the Jamapa, they nearly all abandoned him.[3] Teran, who had so far remained true, was now persuaded to arrest and remove him from command. This was effected August 20th, and after being tossed from one leader to another, it was resolved to send him in chains to the congress. On the way he escaped, accepted pardon from the viceroy, and repaid it with most injurious exposures of insurgent plans.[4] And so disappeared a man who owed his rise to the partiality of Morelos rather than to ability[5] as a leader, and who chose to sacrifice the cause of his country and the blood of his adherents to satisfy a selfish ambition and indulge a choleric temperament.
Calleja considered this a good opportunity to seize upon Tehuacan, the centre of Rosains' district. The
- ↑ Rosains' agents, Velasco and Joaquin Perez, were arrested. Foremost among the rebellious leaders were Corral, who had so warmly upheld Rosains, and Montiel, the cobbler of Orizaba, leader of one of the finest cavalry bands there.
- ↑ Details of the outrage in Negrete, Mex. Siglo XIX., vii. 21-7. He also attempted to shoot the intendente Perez, and he escaping the guards suffered in his place.
- ↑ He rashly insisted on charging the intrenched camp of Corral and Montiel, at the close of July. By this time his disaffected force had dwindled from 700 to 200. Details in Teran, Manifest., 13-22; Orizava, Ocurrenc., 103-4.
- ↑ The text is reproduced among others by Zamacois, Hist. Méj., ix. 843-53. For pardon and character, see Noticioso Gen., Oct. 23, 1815; Bustamante, Notic., 22-4. He claims in his Rel. Hist, to have aided the insurgents with information, although taking no active part in the war, and Victoria certainly rewarded him with a pension after 1823. He became in 1824 senator for Puebla, where he had been residing with his family all this time. In 1830 he conspired with Victoria's brother against General Bustamante and was shot at Puebla Sept. 27th. Bustamante, Voz Patria, v. no. 31, p. 3.
- ↑ For 'no sabe mandar ni obedecer,' says Teran, Manifesto, 31, who also intimates that he came on the battle-field merely to turn his back.
