Note XIII-6 — Chapter XIII · REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA. 1840-1865.
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Several deputies, under one pretext or another, tried to resign, but only the clergyman Lorenzana was permitted to do so. Tempsky's Journey, 341-56. A man named Andrade slightly wounded Carrera in the evening of Aug. 8, 1841. He was murdered by the troops, and Carrera, with the assent of the govt, had the body quartered in the presence of hundreds of persons, and the pieces placed on exhibition at the city gates. The order for so doing was signed by Rivera Paz, and his minister Viteri, afterward bishop of Salvador. Id., 541-8; Guat., Gac. Ofic., no. 22, 86-7; Dunlop's Cent. Am., 248; Nouv. Annales Voy., xcii. 375; Niles' Reg., lxi. 177.