END OF MORAZAN'S CAREER. 



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try. With the rest he marched to Zonzonate, seized a 

 vessel at the port, manning her with his own men, and 

 sent her to Libertad, the port of San Salvador. He 

 then marched to the capital, where the people, who had 

 for years idolized him in power, turned their backs upon 

 him in misfortune, and received him with open insults 

 in the streets. With many of his officers, who were 

 too deeply compromised to remain, he embarked for 

 Chili. Suffering from confinement on board a small 

 vessel, he stopped in Costa Rica, and asked permission 

 for some of them to land. He did not ask it for him- 

 self, for he knew it would be refused. Leaving some 

 of them behind, he went on to join his family in Chili. 

 Amid the fierceness of party spirit it was impossible for 

 a stranger to form a true estimate of the character of a 

 public man. The great outcry against General Mora- 

 zan was hostility to the church and forced loans. For 

 his hostility to the church there is the justification that 

 it is at this day a pall upon the spirit of free institutions, 

 degrading and debasing instead of elevating the Chris- 

 tian character ; and for forced loans constant wars may 

 plead. His worst enemies admit that he was exemplary 

 in his private relations, and, what they consider no 

 small praise, that he was not sanguinary. He is now 

 fallen and in exile, probably forever, under sentence of 

 death if he returns ; all the truckling worshippers of a 

 rising sun are blasting his name and memory ; but I 

 verily believe, and I know I shall bring down upon me 

 the indignation of the whole Central party by the asser- 

 tion, I verily believe they have driven from their shores 

 the best man in Central America. 



The population of the town was devoted to General 

 Morazan, and an old man brought to us his son, a young 

 man about twenty-two, as a guide ; but when he learned 



