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SAN DIEGO AND LOS ANGELES LOYAL.

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guaranties be offered of protection to lives and property of Mexicans.^[1]

Bandini and Argüello returned home, and their report of what had taken place at Angeles was presented at the ayuntamiento meeting of the 29th, a report which, like the speeches made, was full of loyalty and brave determination to avenge the insult to the Mexican nation, with expressions of surprise and regret that selfish interests had prompted certain unprincipled men to "abuse the candor of the Californians, and compromise them so shamefully." This was simply 'Bandini versus Ramirez.' San Diego of course approved the plan of Los Angeles, and the three electors named in accordance therewith were Bandini, S. E. Argüello, and J. M. Marron, Pio Pico being substituted for Bandini a few days later on account of the latter's illness. Meanwhile the troops at San Diego and San Luis became infected with a revolutionary spirit and refused to do duty – that is, they 'struck' for pay or supplies now that there might be urgent need of their services. This delayed the electors, and it is not quite certain that all of them reached Los Angeles at all.^[2]

All seemed favorable now for the establishment of a separate provisional government in the south, which should either defeat the Monterey administration, or at least exact favorable terms of compromise; but obstacles began to present themselves. The action of the garrisons at San Diego and San Luis seemed to

↑ Los Angeles, Arch., MS., iv, 200-12. Sessions of Nov. 25th-6th. Action of citizens of Sta B. on Nov. 20th, announced by Alcalde Dana on Nov. 23d, also in Dept. St. Pap., Angeles, MS., ii. 67-8. Art. 3 of these Sta Bárbara resolutions is unintelligible. The Los Angeles plan, as reported by a committee of the ayunt., is also given in Los Angeles, Arch., MS., i. 106-8, with a preface condemnatory of the people of Monterey, who, 'hallucinated with the idea of ruling all California themselves, have been deceived by adventurers.'
↑ Nov. 28, 1836, report of the comisionados; Nov. 29th-30th, acta of ayunt. of S. Diego; Dec. 1st, notice sent to Angeles; Dec. 3d-4th, Pico's appointment; Dec. 2d, 9th, 11th, corresp. between Argüello, Salazar, and Pico about the revolt of troops; Dec. 16th, Alcalde Argüello complains that communication has ceased with the ayunt. of Los Angeles, and that all his patriotic efforts have been in vain. S. Diego, Arch., MS., 139-43, 147; Los Angeles, Arch., MS., i. 107-20.

[483-4-1] Los Angeles, Arch., MS., iv, 200-12. Sessions of Nov. 25th-6th. Action of citizens of Sta B. on Nov. 20th, announced by Alcalde Dana on Nov. 23d, also in Dept. St. Pap., Angeles, MS., ii. 67-8. Art. 3 of these Sta Bárbara resolutions is unintelligible. The Los Angeles plan, as reported by a committee of the ayunt., is also given in Los Angeles, Arch., MS., i. 106-8, with a preface condemnatory of the people of Monterey, who, 'hallucinated with the idea of ruling all California themselves, have been deceived by adventurers.'

[2] Nov. 28, 1836, report of the comisionados; Nov. 29th-30th, acta of ayunt. of S. Diego; Dec. 1st, notice sent to Angeles; Dec. 3d-4th, Pico's appointment; Dec. 2d, 9th, 11th, corresp. between Argüello, Salazar, and Pico about the revolt of troops; Dec. 16th, Alcalde Argüello complains that communication has ceased with the ayunt. of Los Angeles, and that all his patriotic efforts have been in vain. S. Diego, Arch., MS., 139-43, 147; Los Angeles, Arch., MS., i. 107-20.

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