be stopped. Obeso was sent to serve in the military camp at San Luis Potosí, and Michelena in that at Jalapa; the rest were released from prison, but confined to the limits of Valladolid and its suburbs. [1]
This affair thus nipped in the bud, in spite of the failure to prove its connection with Hidalgo's later in surrection, was in fact the initiation of active movements in the revolution. The views and intentions of the leaders had been widely spread; numbers of their associates having escaped zealously carried on the work, and in nine months after the failure at Valladolid the battle-cry of freedom was raised at Dolores.
In order to allay the excitement caused by the discovery of the affair at Valladolid, the viceroy, on the 22d of January, 1810, proclaimed that there was no reason for alarm, as the late occurrences had only arisen from a difference of opinions relative to the result of affairs in Spain. He himself was wholly free from anxiety, and the public were exhorted to rest without dread of popular commotion. [2]
- ↑ When the revolution headed by Hidalgo broke out in September 1810, these conspirators were again placed under arrest, and their case continued by the junta de seguridad. No connection, however, between the Valladolid conspiracy and that at Dolores could be proved against them, and in 1813 they were released under the pardon granted to revolutionists by the Spanish córtes on the 15th of October, 1810. Copy of decree in Dublan and Lozano, Legis. Mex., i. 336. Michelena on the occasion of his second arrest was treated with great severity by Viceroy Venegas, who imprisoned him in the fortress of Ulúa. There he was cruelly dealt with, though suffering from rheumatism, and was finally shipped in a helpless condition to Spain where he served as a captain in the regiment of Burgos. Padre Santa María having escaped from the convent of S. Diego where he had been confined, died of fever at Acapulco, whither he had gone to join Morelos, who was besieging the castle. Obeso died soon afterward, having been imprisoned for more than two years. Few of these early patriots lived to see the day of independence. Michelena says: 'Casi todos murieron y solo vimos realizada la independencia D. Antonio Cumplido, D. Antonio Castro, D. José María Izazaga, D. José" María Abarca, D. Lorenzo Carrillo, yo, y no sé si alguno otro.' Bustamante, Cuad. Hist., i. 16. The same authority states that both Allende and Abasolo, so conspicuous at a later date as leaders in the revolution, were connected with this affair. Bustamante is of opinion that Iturbide was the informer, offended at not being given a high command by the revolutionists whose meetings he attended. Alaman, however, advances arguments to disprove this. Hist. Mej., i. 317-19.
- ↑ 'Y pues vuestro virey está tranquilo, vivid vosotros tambien seguros.' Mex. Proc. del Virey, 12.
