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CHAPTER VII.
RULE AND OVERTHROW OF VICTORIA.
1831.
APPOINTMENT OF VICTORIA ARRIVAL ECHEANDÍA'S DELAY COMMAND SURRENDERED BEGINNING OF A QUARREL GOLPE DE ESTADO SCHEMES OF PADRES AND PARTY VICTORIA'S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVERNOR REFUSAL TO CONVOKE THE DIPUTACION MEMORIALS AND THREATS VICTORIA'S MANIFIESTO REPLIES OF BANDINI AND Pico ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE THE DEATH PENALTY CASE OF ATANASIO THE ROBBERS AGUILAR AND SAGARRA EXECUTION OF RUBIO EXILE OF ABEL STEARNS VICTORIA AND ALCALDE DUARTB OF SAN JOSE TROUBLE AT Los ANGELES EXILE OF JOSE A. CARRILLO JOSE M. PADRES BANISHED PLOTS OF CARRILLO, BANDINI, AND Pico PRONUNCIAMIENTO OF SAN DIEGO ECHEANDÍA IN COMMAND ANGELES REVOLTS FIGHT NEAR CAHUENGA DEATH OF PACHECO AND A VILA VICTORIA SENT TO SAN BLAS RODRIGO DEL PLIEGO ACTION IN THE NORTH CARRILLO s EFFORTS IN CONGRESS.
Lieutenant-colonel Manuel Victoria was appointed March 8, 1830, to succeed José Maria Echeandía as gefe politico of Alta California, and three days later official notice was sent to the incumbent.[1] Victoria was then at Loreto, where for several years he had been comandante principal of Lower California; but nothing is known of his career on the peninsula, nor of his previous life beyond the current and probably accurate belief in California that he was a native of Acapulco, and commandant there in 1825, who had won his rank by personal bravery in the war of independence.[2] Antonio Garcia had previously been
