[Honduras]

Manifiesto a los Pueblos de Honduras por el Que Suscribe... [caption title]

Guatemala: December 31, 1853. Broadsheet, approximately 13 x 8.5 inches. Two very short, closed tears at upper left margin. Light tanning and dust soiling, faint foxing. About very good. Item #5732

A scarce, anti-Cabañas screed penned by his political rival in Honduras, José Santos Guardiola. José Trinidad Cabañas was at this time president of the country and attempting to reunite the states of Central America in a new federation. Here, Guardiola accuses him of trying to "enthrone himself" as the ruler of Central America through the negotiations and of selling the country by the "atrocious act" of allowing Anglo-Americans to build an "imaginary and impossible" trans-isthmian railroad. Guardiola became president in 1860, after Cabañas was overthrown; he served six years before being assassinated by his own guard. OCLC locates four copies, at Berkeley, Kansas, the Huntington, and Boston Public.

Price: $500.00