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This article examines indultos after the Golpe de Melo of 1854. While the government hoped that these acts of clemency would erase all traces of the rebellion, a flood of appeals for indultos ensured that the post-war reckoning went on longer than the war itself. Drawing on archival and published material documenting this phenomenon, the article documents post-war politics in New Granada. The tension between popular ideals concerning pardonable behavior and the dispassionate constitutionalism promoted by the government documents the limits of the early republican project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the political aspects and consequences of the Colombian Civil War of 1851. The author comments on the governmental administrative activities in Colombia at the time, including the processes of planning, coordinating, and controlling resources involved with the war. He analyzes a series of government records, official correspondence, and media documents from the period that demonstrate the role of the administration during the war as well as the process of nation building in the immediate aftermath.