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Felipe Enríque Neri, Baron de Bastrop Signed Printed Circular Announcing the Arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Don Luciano Garcia....
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A Scarce Printed Circular Announcing the Installation of Luciano Garcia as Governor of Texas Signed by the Baron de Bastrop
Felipe Enríque Neri, Baron de Bastrop Signed Printed Circular
Announcing the Arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Don Luciano
Garcia. One page of a bifolium, 6.25" x 7.5", Béxar; July 8,
1823.One of the earliest Texas imprints, this decree, issued by the Junta Gubernativa de la Provincia de Texas, announces the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Don Luciano García and his installation as Governor of Texas. Signed, "El Baron de Bastrop / vice presidente" and countersigned by secretary José Antonio Saucedo. Addressed in manuscript to the chief of the governing body (alcalde del ayuntamiento) of Bahia.
Translated into English, the circular reads, in full, "The Political Chief of these Upper Provinces, Brigadier D. Felipe de la Garza, in office since the 16th of this past June, sends along to this Governing body, complete copies of the decree of the Sovereign Congress of May 30, which orders the dissolution of the installed Governmental Meetings in these Provinces, giving command temporarily to D. Luciano Garcia the Lieutenant Colonel of Military Services, who will address all affairs that may arise. God and Liberty."
The circular here refers to a communication sent by the Commandant General of Monterrey, Felipe de la Garza, on June 16, 1823. De la Garza included a congressional decree issued on May 30, as mentioned above, that dissolved the various governing juntas of the Internal Provinces and announced García's takeover as Governor of Texas.
A rare example of one of the earliest Texas imprints and one of only six printings that took place in 1823. Although the first printing in colonial Texas took place in 1817 and 1819 under Samuel Bangs, there was no record of any further printing until 1823. For a few months, a press operated at San Antonio de Bexar on the order of then-Governor of Texas, José Felix Trespalacios. The press had arrived from the United States in February 1823 along with a New York printer named George Asbridge. Only small batches of six items are known to have been printed on this press - two in April, two in June, and two in July. When Trespalacios resigned in April 1823, he indicated that the printing press should go with him. The day after García took over the position, he wrote to de la Garza stating that the press would be forwarded to him as soon as transportation became available. The press was shipped back in July via pack mule and separated into seven different loads, thereby ending the brief period of printing activity in Texas. Printing would not resume until 1829.
García was no stranger to Texas and had been sent to the area originally to reorganize the presidial company at La Bahía. When he was appointed ad interim Governor of Texas in 1823, he served in that capacity for three months before returning to his military command as Commandant General of the Province of Texas. During his tenure, García established critical government roles by appointing the Baron de Bastrop as commissioner to extend land titles and calling the first election for Texas representatives to the constituent Congress of Mexico. In 1824 he returned to the political sphere and became chief of the province. In this role, he worked closely with Stephen F. Austin, helping to ensure his colony's success.
The two signers of this circular, the Baron de Bastrop and José Antonio Saucedo, played active roles in early Texas history. Bastrop, born Philip Hendrik Nering Bogel, arrived in Spanish Louisiana in 1795 after a troubled history of embezzlement in Holland. In 1806 he settled in San Antonio and gained influence through his freighting business. In 1810, he was appointed the second alcalde in the ayuntamiento at Bexar. He is perhaps most well-known for convincing Texas Governor Antonio Maria Martinez to agree to Moses Austin's proposal to establish an Anglo-American colony in Texas. Bastrop served in the Mexican government with Stephen F. Austin before becoming its land title commissioner.
Jose Antonio Saucedo rose from the acting secretary of the ayuntamiento of San Fernando de Bexar to become the president of the provincial deputation in 1824, essentially functioning as the Governor of Texas. He then became the political chief at Bexar after the establishment of Coahuila y Tejas in August 1824 and approved the regulations and boundaries of Stephen F. Austin's colony.
Condition: Toned throughout and creased along folds. Ink stain to the verso of the fourth page.
References: Eberstadt, Texas 162:326; Streeter 7; TSHA Handbook of Texas; The Austin Papers, Vol I, p. 672; The History of New York State, Book XI, Chapter III Part V.
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