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by which he agreed to deliver up one thousand mus- 

 kets, and disband his remaining followers. In execu- 

 ting the treaty, however, he delivered only four hundred 

 muskets, and those old and worthless; and this breach 

 of the convention was winked at by Guzman, little 

 dreaming of the terrible fate reserved for himself at 

 Carrera's hands. 



This over, Morazan deposed Rivera Paz, restored 

 Salazar, and returned to San Salvador, first laying 

 heavy contributions on the city to support the expense 

 of the war, and taking with him all the soldiers of the 

 Federal Government, belying one of the party cries 

 against him, that he was attempting to retain an influ- 

 ence in the city by bayonets. Guzman returned to 

 Quezaltenango, and the garrison consisted only of sev- 

 enty men. 



The contributions and the withdrawal of the troops 

 from the city created great dissatisfaction with Morazan, 

 and at this time the political horizon became cloudy 

 throughout the republic. The Marquis of Aycinena, 

 who had been banished by Morazan, and had resided 

 several years in the United States, studying our institu- 

 tions, by a series of articles which were widely circu- 

 lated, purporting to illustrate our constitution and laws, 

 hurried on the crisis ; Honduras and Costa Rica de- 

 clared their independence of the general government : 

 all this came back upon Guatimala, and added fuel to 

 the already flaming fire of dissension. 



On the 24th of March, 1839, Carrera issued a bulle- 

 tin from his old quarters in Matasquintla, in which, 

 referring to the declaration of independence by the 

 States, he says : "When those laws came to my hands, 

 I read them and returned to them very often ; as a 

 loving mother clasps in her arms an only son whom she 



