Note X-3 — Chapter X · DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. 1839-1852.

In the protest they set forth the machinations brought to bear to defeat them. Nicaragua and Salvador had asked Guatemala and Costa Rica to enter the convention. Ferrera, the executive of Honduras, played a double game. He had representatives in the convention, while he was leagued with the aristocrats of Guatemala, who spurned the idea of reorganization. Montúfar, Reseña Hist., iv. 144.