El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana a Sus Conciudadanos

Mexico City, 1835. Very good.. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Small folio. Previously folded; two small stabholes at gutter where formerly stitched. Minor wear and soiling at edges. Light toning. In a quarter calf and pebbled cloth folder. A rare printed address from Mexican president Miguel Barragán to the country's citizens that defends the change from federalist to centralist government and attacks the incipient rebellion in Texas. The 1835 Ley Organica, among other modifications, eliminated independent state governments and replaced them with elected and appointed federal officials, and essentially served as a new Mexican constitution. Barragán assures his readers that the decision was taken with the utmost care and consideration:

"Nuestros sábios representantes han meditado y realizado su obra con la mas severa imparcialidad, y colocándose sobre la esfera tormentosa de las pasiones políticas, han huido cuidadosamente de los extremos de exageracion; y en la ley orgánica se encuentran garatias para las cosas y para los hombres, semilla de esperanza para todos, y lo necesario para asegurar la felicidad que parecia ahuyentarse para siempre de nuestra Patria."

He also addresses the abstention of the military under Santa Anna in effecting the constitutional reforms, and promises that they will now put down the Texas uprising with all possible expediency:

"Los soldados mexicanos que por respeto á la Nacion y por obedienca al Gobierno, habian guardado en su corazones su voto unánime por el cámbio, jurarán ante sus águilas vencerdoras, la fidelidad mas inviolable y sostener á costa de su sangre, de que son tan pródigos en los campos de batalla, la voluntad de la Nacion á que pertenecen. Ahora que una débil minoría de extrangeros ingratos, se ha rebelado en los confines de Tejas, volarán á su escarmiento los que tantas veces vencieron á mejores y mas denodados enemigos."

On the same day that this address was promulgated, November 3, 1835, the Consultation to form a Texian government reached a quorum in San Felipe de Austin, and soon formed a new independent provisional government. We locate one copy in OCLC, in Yale's Henry Wagner collection.