134 ARMIJO*S INTRIGUES. 



the Government for the purpose of queUing 

 the disturbances. 



As I have observed before, the most active 

 agents in this desperate affair were the Pueblo 

 Indians, altliough tlie insurgent party was 

 composed of all the heterogeneous ingredients 

 that a Mexican population teems with. The 

 rancheros and others of the lowest class, how- 

 ever, were only the instruments of certain dis- 

 contented ricos, who, it has been said, were in 

 hope of elevating themselves upon the wreck 

 of their enemies. Among these was the pre- 

 sent Governor Armijo, an ambitious and tur- 

 bulent demagogue, who, for some cause or 

 other, seemed anxious for the downfall of the 

 whole administration. 



As soon as Armijo received intelligence of 

 the catastrophe, he hurried to the capital, ex- 

 pecting, as I heard it intimated by his own 

 brother, to be elected governor; but, not 

 having rendered any personal aid, the ' mobo- 

 cracy' would not acknowledge his claim to 

 their suffrajres. He therefore retired, Santa- 



Anna-like, to his residence at Alburquerque, 

 to plot, in imitation of his great protot>^je, 

 some measures for counteracting the opera- 

 tion of his own intrigues. In this he suc- 

 ceeded so well, that towards September he 

 was able to collect a considerable force in the 

 Rio-Abajo, when he proclaimed a contra- 

 revohcion in favor of the federal government 

 About the same time the disbanded troops of 

 the capital under Captain Caballero, made a 

 mxmidx pronunciamento, demanding their arms, 



