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86 1823 caused great displeasure to Campeche, whose trade with Cuba was thereby interfered with. Mérida, though an equal sufferer, did not shrink from fulfilling her share of duty.

The state enjoyed peace during the four years' constitutional period of Governor Lopez, though he had to struggle against the spirit of military favoritism that had been fostered by the comandante general Felipe Codallos. The latter showed him much opposition, but Lopez upheld his prerogatives, and Codallos was recalled.

The revolutionary projects which were contemplated in Mexico to put aside the federal system were warmly taken up in Yucatan, and when the long-expected cry of revolution was at last heard, it was in that distant part of the republic. The garrison of Campeche, on the 16th of November, 1829, by a public acta, demanded the abolition of the federal government, and the adoption in its stead, of a central military system, that is to say, a single government for the whole country, recognizing Guerrero's authority as far as it did not conflict with the plan, and demanding of the congress that it should convoke another clothed with powers to constitute the republic under a central form of government; with the express understanding that the civil and military authority be vested in the same person. This movement was seconded in Mérida, where José S. Carbajal deposed the governor, J. T. Lopez, assumed all the powers, styling himself 'comandante general, gefe superior político y de hacienda,' and with his accomplices declared, on November 9th, the secession of Yucatan from the union until a national majority should adopt the institutions proclaimed in the plan of Campeche. The news of this event reached