[5] The rapid insertion into the Spanish government apparatus could have been due to the orientation of favoring those recently returned from emigration, as a way of rewarding loyalty to the king, compensating them for the hardships suffered and encouraging others to follow their example.

[4] In accordance with the situation created by the entry of the Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer at the beginning of 1822, and determined not to abandon the country under any circumstances, Bobadilla decided to adopt the republican principles that in theory governed Haiti.

In 1840, on the occasion of the announcement of the implementation of the abolition of the common land system, Bobadilla, together with José Joaquín del Monte, moved to the Haitian capital in order to advocate for the repeal of the provision.

But, urged by the fiscal deficit, in 1840 Boyer ordered the payment of a tax of 25 pesos for every thousand feet of mahogany cut, a way of ignoring the validity of the property titles, which generated heated protests.

In fact, knowing the environment of the time like no one else, he sensed that independence was going to occur and announced to his intimates that he had decided to accompany “the boys.” The greatest effect of his separation from public positions must have been to facilitate his participation in conspiratorial activities.

Practiced in murdering, plundering and devastating, their ambition is dominant and they have never been able to establish a solid government, having let the elements they had to constitute a State under the laws of reason and justice, known as the law of nations, disappear; so they have not been able to progress; They have always been in decline: they are enemies of foreigners, they do not allow them to marry in the country, acquire real estate […].With his commitment, Bobadilla gave considerable impetus to the cause of the creation of the Dominican State in 1844, because many considered him as the prototype of the politician who was never wrong and reasoned that if he had oriented himself in that direction the event would end being produced.

The difference in positions between Bobadilla and the Trinitarios did not prevent them from trying to reach an agreement, for which a summit was held in the house of the two cannons, owned by Manuel Joaquín del Monte, another conservative lawyer who until then collaborated with the Haitians.

[11] Although Bobadilla did not give up placing his hopes on the establishment of a protectorate of France, at one point he realized that it would not be feasible to overthrow Haitian rule without counting on the young liberals, the most active sector of those days.

Once the coup was planned on February 27 by a secret committee of Trinitarios, its members, led by Sánchez, decided to make an agreement with Bobadilla and other conservatives on the basis of recognizing that a fully independent State was going to be founded.

[12] After the initial fighting, liberal Trinitarians and conservative Frenchifieds begun the organisation of the Dominican State on March 1, 1844; they established a cabinet called the "Central Gubernative Junta" and chose Bobadilla as president.

This would be issued in the following decree:[13] Slavery has disappeared forever from the territory of the Dominican Republic, and that whoever spread this news will be considered a criminal, persecuted and punished if necessary.In those days, urged by the imperative to prepare resistance against the Haitians, Sánchez did not give importance to the differences in objectives that separated them from the conservatives.

It is explained that on March 8 the Junta sent a document to the French consul in which it requested the protection of that country in the event that Haitian troops entered; The proposal included the transfer of the Samaná peninsula, which was already beginning to be considered of strategic value.

Between Bobadilla and Pedro Santana, designated head of the Southern Expeditionary Front, confidential ties were established aimed at obtaining the protection of France, since they agreed that the country did not have the military resources to confront the Haitian aggression.

Duarte and other Trinitarios raised their protest immediately; A state of opinion was created that led to a coup d'état, the 18 Dominican Brumaire, on June 9, 1844, with the support of the people and troops of the city, through which the conservatives who had defended the French protection.

[16] In the performance of his duties, after independence in 1844, Bobadilla ceased to be a simple bureaucrat: he rose to the height of a statesman endowed with the ability to perceive the content of problems and propose solutions in accordance with the circumstances.

He was deeply involved in the Dominican environment and knew all the notable figures of his time; He was intimately familiar with the keys to the functioning of the State and penetrated the hidden secrets of the popular soul.

In any case, his experience in holding positions as a lawyer, cultural gifts and professional expertise allowed him to be the highest level expositor of the country's problems during the period known as the First Republic, between 1844 and 1861.

Rather, to the extent that he aspired to play a leading role, he suffered failures that led him to resign himself to performing subordinate functions and moving with extreme caution in the midst of the whirlwind of conflicting interests.

Bobadilla resisted, but the tyrant promoted a riot of “the people and the army” that broke into the session room and forced the tribune to request a license to go abroad, but not before giving a speech in which he praised himself as the true architect of the creation of the Dominican State.

Although discreetly, Bobadilla once again placed himself at the command of the person who had banished him and shortly afterward he was appointed fiscal attorney of the Supreme Court of Justice, the main function within the judicial apparatus.

As was already characteristic of him and would continue to be from now on, he held other positions in the judicial apparatus, in addition to directing a public educational establishment and teaching civil law classes at the San Buenaventura school.

As Rufino Martínez highlights, following his cautious attitude of calculation, he considered that, once decided, the measure would be carried out and he was obliged to accept it because it coincided with his convictions about the impossibility of the Dominican people forging a stable independent order.

He served as Chairman of the Supreme Court of Justice, from 3 June 1851, until 17 January 1853; afterwards, from 1853 until 1859, period of the governments of Rule Mota, Desiderio Valverde, Buenaventura Báez and Pedro Santana, he held important offices.

As Rufino Martínez highlights, following his cautious attitude of calculation, he considered that, once decided, the measure would be carried out and he was obliged to accept it because it coincided with his convictions about the impossibility of the Dominican people forging a stable independent order and fruitful.

Spain was the current power and considered it equipped to ensure a relationship that would provide the country with stability and progress; Furthermore, it was the original nation of the Dominican people, with a community of language, race and religion, the components of identity.

However, shortly after, Báez's centralist tendency caused a break with Cabral, who announced an insurrection from Haiti, immediately supported by Pedro Antonio Pimentel, another leading man of the Restoration, who held the Interior and Police portfolio.

Although many conservatives who had been followers of Santana took sides in favor of Báez, at the time it was concluded that, as a political tendency, Santanism had experienced a metamorphosis in the conditions created after the departure of the Spaniards and that, To stay in power, he had joined the liberal current.

History continued to repeat itself: Bobadilla was requested, as a matter of course, in recognition of his political skills, seen as necessary for the success of a government administration; and, as on previous occasions, he bowed to the demand, also as a natural thing and as an inevitable destiny.

[30] It is clear that the liberals – who formed a phantom entity they called the National Party – initially constituted a different group from the former Santanistas and that they turned to them compelled by adverse circumstances.

Accustomed for more than fifty years to governing himself, to living the life of the camps, to spending days, months and years with weapons in his hands, lacking everything, defying hunger and inclemency; accustomed to living free, owing his freedom only to his own effort, he does not resist strange domination, he shakes it, he engages in the fight against the dominator, and even with the awareness of his weakness, he sustains it; He magnifies it with his desperation, and in his desire to be free, he makes it long, horrible and bloody.Endowed with the will to contribute to the advancement of the war waged by the blues in the southern border area, at the beginning of 1871 Bobadilla decided to move to Haiti in order to put his experience at the service of the insurgent leaders.