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[AUSTIN, Stephen F. (1793-1836)]. Esposicion al publico sobre los Asuntos de Tejas. Megico [sic]: en casa de Cornelio C. Sebring, 1835.
4o (187 x 137 mm). (Small paper flaw affects a few letters on pp. 23/24.) Contemporary patterned paper wrappers (black stars on a green ground speckled with red, small repair to front cover); full red morocco folding case. A VERY FINE COPY.
"DIOS Y TéJAS." A VERY FINE COPY OF AUSTIN'S VERY RARE ESPOSICION
Austin attended the Texas Convention of April 1833 and had been delegated to carry petitions for statehood to the Mexican government, a commission Austin fulfilled, winning a number of important concessions (including repeal of the law which halted immigration). But on his way home to Texas in January 1834 he was arrested by the Mexican authorities, under suspicion of fomenting the Texans to rebellion. (Austin's letter of 2 October 1833 to the ayuntamiento of Bexar had included an incendiary passage stating his conviction that if no reforms were to be obtained from the authorities, they should proceed to declare Texas a separate state.) While no formal charges were filed against Austin, he remained incarcerated and incommunicado until released on bail on Christmas day, though still forbidden to leave the capital district. Austin's Esposicion, published not long after his release, "is primarily an able defense of the memorial adopted by the Convention of April, 1833...It is one of the important Texas documents" (Streeter). An appendix gives extracts from five key documents, no. 3 being Austin's controversial letter to the Ayuntamiento of Bexar of 2 October 1833, which concludes with the memorable invocation "Dios y Téjas..." Fifty Texas Rarities 11; Howes A-403 ("dd"); Rader 213; Streeter Texas 817; Streeter Introduction to Texana, Colonization 11. VERY RARE: ONLY ONE OTHER COPY APPEARS IN AUCTION RECORDS SINCE 1975
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"DIOS Y TéJAS." A VERY FINE COPY OF AUSTIN'S VERY RARE ESPOSICION
Austin attended the Texas Convention of April 1833 and had been delegated to carry petitions for statehood to the Mexican government, a commission Austin fulfilled, winning a number of important concessions (including repeal of the law which halted immigration). But on his way home to Texas in January 1834 he was arrested by the Mexican authorities, under suspicion of fomenting the Texans to rebellion. (Austin's letter of 2 October 1833 to the ayuntamiento of Bexar had included an incendiary passage stating his conviction that if no reforms were to be obtained from the authorities, they should proceed to declare Texas a separate state.) While no formal charges were filed against Austin, he remained incarcerated and incommunicado until released on bail on Christmas day, though still forbidden to leave the capital district. Austin's Esposicion, published not long after his release, "is primarily an able defense of the memorial adopted by the Convention of April, 1833...It is one of the important Texas documents" (Streeter). An appendix gives extracts from five key documents, no. 3 being Austin's controversial letter to the Ayuntamiento of Bexar of 2 October 1833, which concludes with the memorable invocation "Dios y Téjas..." Fifty Texas Rarities 11; Howes A-403 ("dd"); Rader 213; Streeter Texas 817; Streeter Introduction to Texana, Colonization 11. VERY RARE: ONLY ONE OTHER COPY APPEARS IN AUCTION RECORDS SINCE 1975