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CHAP. III.]
PLAN OF IGUALA.
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lowed by some formidable inroads on the property
and prerogatives of the Church, the Mexican hierarchy
was moved to consider separation from the
mother country as the only step by which its possessions
and privileges could be secured from sacrilegious
invasion, and a congenial retreat from his rebellious
subjects provided for Ferdinand VII. With
these views and impressions, they supplied funds to
Don Augustin Iturbide, an ambitious Royalist
officer of Creole birth, who, coalescing with his
former opponents of the independent party under
Guerrero, proceeded to the little town of Iguala, on
the road to Acapulco, and on the 24th of February,
1821, proclaimed a project of separation, embracing
the following propositions :-Mexican Independence
of Spain;-the offer of the Crown of Mexico to
Ferdinand, and, failing him, to the other members
of the Royal Family in succession, on condition of
residence in America, and fealty to the constitution
to be established by the Cortes ;-full security for
the supremacy of the Roman Catholic faith, and the
immunities of the clergy, regular and secular;the
abolition of all distinctions of classes, and the
union of Spaniards, Creoles, Indians, Africans, and
castes on the equal footing of free citizenship. For
the support of this project-since celebrated as the
Plan of Iguala-an army was to be raised, to be
styled, " The Army of the Three Guarantees," to
preserve the Holy Apostolic Catholic Religion, the
independence of Mexico, and the union between the
Spaniards in Mexico and the Americans of the
South. The " Plan" was approved by the troops
on the spot, who bound themselves to its support
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Kennedy, William. Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1, book, January 1, 1841; London. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2389/m1/357/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.