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Stephen F. Austin. Esposición al publico sobre los asuntos de Tejas....
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Stephen F. Austin. Esposición al publico sobre los asuntos de Tejas. Por El C. Estevan F. Austin. Megico [sic]: en casa de Cornelio C. Sebring, 1835.FIRST EDITION. 4to. 32 pages (page 29 misnumbered 31). Late 19th-century tree calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label.
Austin attended the Texas Convention of April 1833, carrying petitions for statehood to the Mexican government. He fulfilled the commission, winning a number of important concessions (including repeal of the law which halted immigration). In January 1834, while on his way home to Texas, he was arrested by the Mexican authorities, under suspicion of fomenting the Texans to rebellion. This was due to his letter of 2 October 1833 to the ayuntamiento of Bexar which 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 him, Austin remained incarcerated until released on bail on Christmas day, though still forbidden to leave the capital district.
"The Esposición, written in the third person, is primarily an able defense of the memorial adopted by the Convention of April, 1833, and an explanation of the letter of October 2, 1833, which had caused Austin's arrest. 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 Tejas..."
Very rare: Only three other copies have appeared in online auction records since 1975.
Condition: Binding with minor wear to joints and edges, a few minor abrasions to covers, endpaper toned at edges, title lightly soiled, some very minor occasional pale spotting. Overall a fine copy.
References: Eberstadt, Texas 162:40 ("It was in this document that the people of Texas demanded a separate existence"); Fifty Texas Rarities 11; Graff 116. Howes A-403 ("dd"); Library of Congress, Texas Centennial Exhibition, p. 8; Rader 213; Raines, p. 15; Streeter 817; Vandale 7.
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2023 December 2 The Ted Lusher Texas History Collection, Part One Signature® Auction #6281 (go to Auction Home page)
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