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Rival classes compose Scotch Lodges. The Yorkinos. Men desert from the Scotch to the York Lodges. Law to suppress Secret Societies. The Escocés, or Scotch Masons, take up arms. The Battle. Their total Defeat. As Jalapa is a pleasant resting-place in a journey to the interior, we will stop here to discuss national affairs for a little while.
Besides the seductive influences of the lodges, two generals, distinguished for their services in the first insurrectionary war, brought with them a number of soldiers to the party to which each severally belonged. General Nicholas Bravo was the head of the Escocés, and Don Vincente Guerrero was the leader of the Yorkinos.
Mad struggles raged between partisan chieftains and their bands of Escoceses and Yorkinos, crying out upon the "President" in power because of his undue influence upon the choice of a successor, backing their respective candidates if they lost, and waiting for a chance to oust them if they won.
When the Escocés had so far lost ground in popular favor, as to be in the greatest apprehension from their prosperous but imbittered rivals, the Yorkinos, as a last resort, to save themselves, and to ruin the hated organization, they pronounced against all secret societies.
"In the assemblages of the Yorkinos were united all who were republicans from conviction, and those who followed the popular current the mass of the people having devoted themselves to this organization. It is enough to say, in order to mark the position of both parties, that among the Yorkinos figured, in great numbers, those that believed the name of republican was not a mere imagination.
This victory was so complete as to prove a real disaster to the Yorkinos. The want of outside pressure led to internal dissensions; so that when two of its own members, Guerrero and Pedraza, became rival candidates for the presidency, the election was determined by a resort to arms, which brought about the terrible insurrection of the Acordada. Mexico becomes an Empire.
The Scotch party feared the day would come, in which the deputies the majority of whom were their enemies would decree the total proscription of all those persons who were hostile, or suspected of being hostile, to the Yorkinos, as the Chambers had fallen into the practice of submitting to the caprices of the dominant order. They therefore appealed to arms, having exhausted the right of petition.
The first political subject in order is the furious contest that for ten years was carried on between two political societies, known as the Escocés and Yorkinos or, as we should call them, Scotch Free-Masons and York Free-Masons whose secret organizations were employed for political purposes by two rival political parties.
Here, at about daylight on the morning of the 7th January, 1828, he was assailed by General Guerrero, the leader of the Yorkinos, and commander of the forces of government." After a slight skirmish, in which eight men were killed and six wounded, General Bravo and his party were made prisoners; and thus perished forever the party of the Escocés.
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