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his place. But there was no such person ; the term of 

 the council had expired, and no new elections had been 

 held ; and while Morazan was dispersing the wild bands 

 of Carrera, and relieving the Guatimalians from the 

 danger which had brought them to their knees before 

 him, the old jealousies revived, and incendiary publica- 

 tions were issued, charging him with exhausting the 

 country in supporting idle soldiers, and keeping the city 

 in subjection by bayonets. 



About the first of July General Morazan considered 

 Guatimala relieved from all external danger, and re- 

 turned to San Salvador, leaving troops in different 

 towns under the command of Carvallo, and appointing 

 Carlos Salazar commandant in the city. Carrera was 

 supposed to be completely put down ; and to bring 

 things to a close, Carvallo published the following 



" NOTICE. 



The person or persons who may deliver the criminal Rafael Carrera, dead or 

 alive (if he does not present himself voluntarily under the last pardon), shall re- 

 ceive a reward of fifteen hundred dollars and two cabellerias of land, and pardon 

 for any crime he has conunitted. 



" The general-in-chief, 

 *' Guatimala, July 20, 1838. J. N. Carvallo." 



But the "criminal" Carrera, the proscribed outlaw, 

 was not yet put down. One by one, he surprised the 

 detachments of Federal troops ; and while the city ex- 

 hibited the fierceness of party spirit, forced loans, com- 

 plaints of the expense of maintaining idle soldiers, plans 

 to abolish the state government and form a provisional 

 junta, its actual prostration, and the organizing of a 

 Constituent Assembly with M. Rivera Paz at the head, 

 Carrera, with still increasing numbers, attacked Amati- 

 tan, took the Antigua, and, barely waiting to sack a few 

 houses, stripped it of cannon, muskets, and ammuni- 



