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 CHAPTER XVII.

ALVARADO S RULE TROUBLES IN THE SOUTH.

1836-1837.

THAT the changes effected at Monterey were not approved in the south was due almost entirely to sectional, local, and personal causes. The provincial prejudice was as strong in one part of California as in another. The arribeflos were not more radical federalists than were the abajenos, nor were they more unanimously opposed to Mexican rulers. The loyalty of the sureflos and their natural shrinking from revolutionary measures were not notably more pronounced than the same sentiments among the nortefios. It was San Diego and Los Angeles, not Monterey and San Jose, that had begun the revolt against Victoria in 1831. It was the south that sustained Echeandia, and the north that supported Zamorano s counter-revolt in behalf of the supreme government. There was not much opposition to Gutierrez personally in (478)