Name/Title
Juan Pablo Anaya [Broadside]Context
Just months before the outbreak of open rebellion in Texas, Governor Agustín Viesca, forwards a decree by Mexico's Minister of the Interior, José María Gutiérrez de Estrada. The minister noted that a 7 April order by the Texas legislature, allowing the governor to call out the local militia to maintain the peace, was in conflict with a 31 March federal decree. He concludes (in translation) that the government "cannot allow partial measures to subsist that conflict directly with the general laws. . . . It will be the responsibility of Your Excellency for the lack of compliance with what was agreed by the Congress if your government insists on upholding the aforementioned article."
The manuscript additions show that this copy was sent by Angel Navarro, the political head of San Antonio de Bexar, to his counterpart in Goliad.