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Rh statesman and journalist, but also a historian and writer of travels. I give in a note an account of his works.

While the events above recited were occurring in Yucatan, General Bustamante, vice-president of the republic and commander of the largest military division, proclaimed on the 4th of December a plan destructive of his government, under the pretence of restoring constitutional order, and the observance of the laws which he and his accomplices said were infringed by the dictatorial powers vested in the executive — powers which, though, perhaps, not judiciously used in every instance, never became oppressive. Santa Anna tried to prevent this movement, and not succeeding, surrendered both his civil and military commands, the former to Manuel Arguelles and the latter to Colonel Antonio Juillé.

Bustamante, though a yorkino, was influenced by Jose Antonio Facio, a number of discontented yorkinos, and not a few escoceses, or novenarios.