Note XXIV-31 — Chapter XXIV · INDEPENDENCE OF THE ISTHMUS. 1801-1822.
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The king had decreed the reëstablishment of the order in Spanish America, but it was not carried out on the Isthmus, there being no members of the society here, nor any one willing to join it. 'Andábamos ya algo despreocupados,' says an authority. The society was already looked on as an agent of despotism and perpetual state of vassalage. Bol. Ofic., 1868, 112.