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Show eee eer 232 LEADING FACTS OF NEW HISTORY MEXICAN News that an insurrection which was rapidly gaining ground. tionary movement was on foot and apt to be launched at any moment Don Diego Archucame to General Price through Secretary Vigil. leta, who considered that he had been cheated, owing to the representations made to him by Santiago Magoffin, was a leader in the movement. He was ably assisted by Don Tomas Ortiz and others. When Price was notified he immediately caused the arrest of those supposed to be implicated and an investigation was had, in the course of which it appeared that a plan had been formed for a general uprising on Christmas eve. The principal leaders, Ortiz and Archuleta, escaped in the direction of Chihuahua, the project was further frustrated by the arrests which had been made and in a few days the alarm entirely subsided.?® 168 These men considered themselves to country lost without a single effective blow. been chief alcalde of Santa Domingo Fé, Juan Felipe be patriots, They were unwilling to see their Tomas Ortiz, who had Ortiz, the vicario, Diego C. de Baca, Miguel E. Pino, Nicolas Pino, Manuel Archuleta, Chaves, Santiago Armijo, Agustin Duran, Pablo Dominguez, José Maria Sanchez, Antonio Maria Trujillo, Santiago Martinez, Pascual Martinez, Vicente Martinez, Antonio Ortiz (of Arroyo Seco), Facundo Pino, Rev. Antonio José Martinez, Fr. Leyva of San Miguel. Not one of these had favored the abandonment of Apache Pass by Armijo, and all were related either by blood or marriage. The plan as formed by these men was that on the appointed day those engaged in the conspiracy in Santa Fé were to gather in the parochial chureh and remain concealed. Meanwhile friends from the surrounding country under the lead of Archuleta were to be brought into the city and distributed in various houses where they would be unobserved. At midnight the church bell was to sound and then the men within the church were to sally forth and all were to rendezvous immediately in the plaza, seize the cannon there, and aim them so as to command the leading points, while detachments under special orders were to attack the palace and the quarters of General Price, and make them prisoners. The people throughout the whole north had been secretly notified and were only awaiting news of the rising at Santa Fé in order to join in the revolt and make it a success. _ A full account of the manner of escape of Don Tomas Ortiz is to be found ae Military Occupation of New Mesxico, 1846-1851, R. E. Twitchell, Denver, The only definite and literally preserved testimony of the facts in this affair is that of Don José Maria Sanchez, who says that on December 15th he was summoned by Don Miguel Pino to a meeting at the house of Tomas Ortiz. He found there Tomas Ortiz, Diego Archuleta, Nicolas and Miguel Pino, Santiago Armijo, Manuel Chavez, Domingo ©. de Baca, Pablo Dominguez, Juan Lopez, Tomas Vaca, Blas Ortega, and Fr. Leyba. Agustin Duran, it appeal) was not at this meeting, but he also confessed. Sanchez stated that Diego Archuleta was the leader at the meetings and made the motion for the nomination of a governor and a commanding general. He named Don Tomas Ortiz for the first office and himself for the second. The motion carried and the proceedings were signed by every one present. This paper was hid in the house of the mother of the Pinos. The writing has never been recoverel™ At the meeting the date set for the assault was fixed at the 19th of December; Representative New Mexicans of the Nineteenth Century 3. Major Harry R. 2. Col. Max Frost. 1. Don Trinidad Alarid. 5. Col. Albert J. Fountain. 6. 4. Don Antonio Ortiz y Salazar. 8. John 7. Don Benito Baca. Francisco Antonio Chavez. 9. Don Felix Martinez H. Knaebel. Whiting. Don |