THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

376 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
Kolettes, already meditating a stroke for the supreme
power, now threw himself into opposition, and made
Agostino's pro-Ilussian policy especially the object of
his attacks.
The National Assembly was summoned to meet at
Argos on the 19th of December. The national crisis
arising from the death of Capodistrias might have been
used to make, at any rate, some attempt to heal the
divisions in the State.
Kolettes, supported by the English
and French Residents, urged that the representatives
who had been summoned to the Congress at Hydra
should be invited to attend at Argos;
but to this
both Agostino and Kolokotrones strenuously objected,
and the opportunity for healing
the breach was lost.
When the Assembly ultimately met at Argos, it
was
discovered that the majority of the deputies were devoted
to the Capodistrian party; and in the division on
the future constitution of the Government, a hundred
and forty-six of these voted for the exclusion of Kolokotrones
and Kolettes from the provisional committee,
and the appointment of Agostino Capodistrias as sole
President.
The growing jealousy of the Moreots for the Rumeliots
now broke out into open feud.
Many
of the
chieftains had descended to the Assembly, as usual,
surrounded by crowds of followers; and Argos was