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628 Santanist conservative type. Tornel, who alone stood credited with federal sympathies, was above all devoted to his patron; and the leader Alaman bore so strong a reputation for Spanish leanings, monarchical tendencies, and aristocratic bias against the masses and their independence champions, as to be almost offensive to the people at large. Here, then, was already an infringement of the national will, which in the revolutionary plans demanded due respect for public opinion, and representation at least for the leading parties.

Lombardini made a formal surrender of authority April 20th, and died soon after. Two days later the new government issued its basis or programme for administration till a constitution could be framed. It defined to some extent the duties of the ministers, and of the projected council of states, whose twenty-one members were to form into committees corresponding to the ministerial departments. States and territories were to return to the limits and condition prevailing before the late revolution; and in order to facilitate the reorganization now entered upon, their legislative authorities must retire, leaving to the governors their functions until the projected constitution could be issued.

The unsettled state of affairs following the revolution, and the all-absorbing expectancy of coming events, offered every opportunity for thus quietly and