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Guatemala City, September 23rd, 1832 · The Shattered Congress
El Tiempo
Manuel Francisco Pavón y Aycinena (player)
Chaos and lawlessness reigned freely in Omoa last night, when the good mayor Ramón Guzmán was forcibly stopped from sieging his own city by the very men under his command. Apparently exhausted by continuous siege and weary from the news of conservative losses elsewhere, the Spanish nationals under Guzmán's direction went mutiny and turned him over to the liberal authorities.
This marks another failure of the Restorative Plan, and perhaps the last, with no remaining men of command willing to defy the iron grip of Mr. Morazán. The insidious liberals under Mariano Gálvez, in their never-ending plot to radicalize the people of Guatemala, have flippantly taken to calling our failed Plan the 'Conservative Invasion.' As if it were not the liberals who have invaded this good land, driving out the noble and the faithful alike!
Let us take a moment to recall, at least, the friends we have at home and abroad. San Salvador remains a bastion of conservatism, standing proud against the ideological assault from Guatemala City, with welcome and open arms to any man who names themselves a friend of Aycinena. Our friends foremost from Spain, who provided us with men and allowed us fly their flag for some glorious months. Our friends from Mexico, who allowed former President Manuel José Arce to organize, rally men, and return to safety upon his defeat; Distinction upon Vicente Domínguez, the good Mexican colonel who arrived to lead our forces against Honduras. Our friends in British Honduras, who graciously allowed entry of Spaniard and Mexican and provided a safe haven for defeated conservative Salvadorans. Our friends in Cuba, who harbor the holy men Morazán and Gálvez have devilishly cast out of our God-fearing country, and promote their foreign contact. And, lastly, our sincere condolences to the family of the Frenchman Captain Richard Duplessis, whom Colonel Domínguez's forces slew surely without intent.
Though this loss is disheartening, we must take some satisfaction in the knowledge that the conservative Central American is surrounded by friends, while men like Morazán and Gálvez invite the ire of all around them. Our sentiment will only grow with each man crushed under the boot of the dastard Morazán, who plays at reform while acting the strongman. Perhaps still could a glorious Spanish American union be formed of Central America, Mexico, and Cuba, ever to prosper under mother Spain.
Let us lastly spare a prayer for mayor Ramón Guzmán, who left God's earth by manner of execution to-day, and for colonel Vicente Domínguez, who is set to be executed to-morrow, despite his request for clemency.
