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CHAPTER XVII.

ALVARADO S RULE TROUBLES IN THE SOUTH.
1836-1837.

CAUSES or SOUTHERN OPPOSITION SECTIONAL, LOCAL, AND PERSONAL PREJUDICE THE NEWS AT ANGELES SAN DIEGO AROUSED PLAN OF NOVEMBER COUNTER-PLAN OF SANTA BARBARA NEW AYUNTAMIENTOS AND NEW PLAN LETTERS OF PROMINENT MEN CASTILLO NEGRETE Osio BANDINI Pio Pico CARLOS CARRILLO ALVARADO IN THE SOUTH THE BARBARENOS SUBMIT ANGELINOS OBSTINATE DIEGUINOS PATRIOTIC BUT NOT WARLIKE DEFENSIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGN AND TREATY OF SAN FERNANDO ALVARADO AT Los ANGELES CASTRO S ARRIVAL ANOTHER PLAN SPEECHES FEARS OF ATTACK FROM SONORA CASTRO AT SAN DIEGO DIPUTACION SUSTAINS ALVARADO PLAN DE GOBIERNO INTRIGUES OF Osio AND Pico Los ANGELES SUBMITS GOVERNOR S MANIFIESTO OF MAY RETURN TO MONTEREY EVENTS IN THE NORTH, JANUARY TO MAY.

THAT the changes effected at Monterey were not approved in the south was due almost entirely to sectional, local, and personal causes. The provincial prejudice was as strong in one part of California as in another. The arribeflos were not more radical federalists than were the abajenos, nor were they more unanimously opposed to Mexican rulers. The loyalty of the sureflos and their natural shrinking from revolutionary measures were not notably more pronounced than the same sentiments among the nortefios. It was San Diego and Los Angeles, not Monterey and San Jose, that had begun the revolt against Victoria in 1831. It was the south that sustained Echeandia, and the north that supported Zamorano s counter-revolt in behalf of the supreme government. There was not much opposition to Gutierrez personally in

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