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ARREST OF THE COLONISTS.

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date.^[1] Vallejo received the order on the 14th, "watched the colonists until their preparations called for prompt action, and then suddenly fell upon them on the 16th at 4 P. M., arresting Verduzco, Lara, and others," who the next day were taken on board the Rosa at San Francisco.^[2] On the 15th, several sessions of the Monterey ayuntamiento were held to approve all the governor had done and proposed to do; though the latter seems not to have made known his orders to Vallejo, and the ayuntamiento declined to name the persons who ought to be sent away. Next day Figueroa issued a printed address to the people, announcing that "the genius of evil has appeared among you, scattering the deadly poison of discord," declaiming in the most bitter terms against Híjar and Padrés, congratulating all that he has been able to save his beloved country, and promising a more complete vindication of his policy later.^[3] On the 17th, Híjar, still at Solano, replied to Figueroa's order of the 13th with a protest against the insult offered him, a declaration of his belief that the revolt was purely imaginary, a denial of the governor's right to suspend him, an expression of his determination to drag his prosecutor before competent tribunals, a complaint of unnecessary outrage at the hands of Vallejo, but at the same time an announcement of his disposition to yield to force and obey the order to

↑ March 13, 1835, F. to Vallejo in Dept. St. Pap., MS., iv. 11-12; Id., Ben., ii. 29-31. Private note of same tenor and date, in Vallejo, Doc., MS., iii. 18. Ignacio Coronel, Rafael Padrés, and other suspected persons were also to be sent on board the Rosa. Request to capt. of the Rosa, who was desired to take the prisoners to S. Blas if possible — the same being also communicated to the captain of the port at Monterey, in Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxxvii. 69. F. to Alf. Valle. Valle, Doc., MS., 40.
↑ Vallejo, Doc., MS., iii. 25. 37 rifles were seized besides other munitions. Id., xxiii. 4. Mar. 19th, Verduzco to Padrés from the Rosa. Id., iii. 21. March 20th, Vallejo certifies that before the rifles were taken 2 parties of the colonists had departed to other parts of the territory. Also that no resistance was made. Id., iii. 22. Vallejo went back on the 18th to Solano after putting his prisoners on the bark.
↑ Monterey, Actos del Ayunt., MS., 73-80. Figueroa, el Comandante Gen. y Gefe Político de la Alta Cal. á los Habitantes del territorio. Monterrey, 1835, 1 sheet, in Earliest Printing in Cal.; Castro, Doc., MS., i. 22; Figueroa, Manifiesto, 151-4.

[1] March 13, 1835, F. to Vallejo in Dept. St. Pap., MS., iv. 11-12; Id., Ben., ii. 29-31. Private note of same tenor and date, in Vallejo, Doc., MS., iii. 18. Ignacio Coronel, Rafael Padrés, and other suspected persons were also to be sent on board the Rosa. Request to capt. of the Rosa, who was desired to take the prisoners to S. Blas if possible — the same being also communicated to the captain of the port at Monterey, in Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxxvii. 69. F. to Alf. Valle. Valle, Doc., MS., 40.

[2] Vallejo, Doc., MS., iii. 25. 37 rifles were seized besides other munitions. Id., xxiii. 4. Mar. 19th, Verduzco to Padrés from the Rosa. Id., iii. 21. March 20th, Vallejo certifies that before the rifles were taken 2 parties of the colonists had departed to other parts of the territory. Also that no resistance was made. Id., iii. 22. Vallejo went back on the 18th to Solano after putting his prisoners on the bark.

[3] Monterey, Actos del Ayunt., MS., 73-80. Figueroa, el Comandante Gen. y Gefe Político de la Alta Cal. á los Habitantes del territorio. Monterrey, 1835, 1 sheet, in Earliest Printing in Cal.; Castro, Doc., MS., i. 22; Figueroa, Manifiesto, 151-4.

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