Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1890 [PAGE 14]

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Hictiug interests rapidly developed two rival political divisions, the Monarchisl and the Republican. The former including the cler and Spanish subjects, was thedominanl party. The republicans constituted the needy minority. I linand's refusal of the throne of Mexico somewhat str gthened the Republicans, but the action of the Mon•*chil as rapid and decisive. In May. 1822, they pro-

ned and enthroned the Emperor Augustin I. The inaint» of the new- empire and the largi army drained the

r« «.t' th< antry, bringing weakness to the empire and sthening the republican party, which on became ng jn 18: I they defeated the Imperial] and hlished r'l the Republic with Gov. Victoria as its first president, clergy through their influence eded in ins< \ in the bion a clause by which the nianI ' be Roniaurch was i I in the Roman Pontif, thi shy exemptiemselves, their wealth and iheir monopol from tl in i' the g iimeni of the Republic. Under the operaof this Itution th< ican p pic divid two ntially antagoni ic pai inservath , ing tiously to the chi h and its i tent, anuJjiberals \ miner for innovation- od r inn. AndquCon tndLiberal appe i I'm the, strn led until in 1 ih( he Lil emboldened ihem I" ppi n of t he chuux ion i he agricultnral prod which had yieldedir nue to th ch . I he u, now concent rated

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