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Rh be stopped. Obeso was sent to serve in the military camp at San Luis Potosí, and Michelena in that at Jalapa; the rest were released from prison, but confined to the limits of Valladolid and its suburbs.

This affair thus nipped in the bud, in spite of the failure to prove its connection with Hidalgo's later in surrection, was in fact the initiation of active movements in the revolution. The views and intentions of the leaders had been widely spread; numbers of their associates having escaped zealously carried on the work, and in nine months after the failure at Valladolid the battle-cry of freedom was raised at Dolores.

In order to allay the excitement caused by the discovery of the affair at Valladolid, the viceroy, on the 22d of January, 1810, proclaimed that there was no reason for alarm, as the late occurrences had only arisen from a difference of opinions relative to the result of affairs in Spain. He himself was wholly free from anxiety, and the public were exhorted to rest without dread of popular commotion.