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CHAPTER I.
MEXICO BECOMES A REPUBLIC-PLAN OF IGUALA-MEXICO GAINS AN INDISPUTABLE
TITLE TO TEXAS, IN 1819-COLONIZATION SCHEMES--KENENi-OWF.N-MOSES
AUSTIN OBTAINS A CONTRACT-DIES-STEPHEN F. AUSTIN SELECTS A LOCATION
IN TEXAS FOR HIS COLONY-AUSTIN AIDED BY HAWKINS-SCHOONER
LIVELY LOST-AUSTIN IN THE CITY OF MEXICO.
t\TE do not propose to take our readers into the labyrinths
of Mexican politics, or even to record the
oft-recurring revolutions of that unhappy country. But
Texas was under Mexican domination, and of course was
more or less affected by all the changes of government; and
this was the period in which Mexico threw off her dependence
upon Spain and took her position among the independent
nations of the earth. Hidalgo was the first to unfurl
the Republican banner in Mexico. This was in 1812; and
though he failed, Morelos and others kept up the organization
of a party, struggling for deliverance from the Spanish
yoke. Spain herself was now passing through the trying
ordeal of a change of dynasty, and the Republicans thought
it a favorable moment to strike for Mexican independence.
Fortunately, Agustin Iturbide, the ablest of the loyalist generals,
gave in his adhesion to the movement. At the suggestion
of Iturbide, a conference was held with Guerrero and
other Republican leaders at Iguala, a small town about sixty
miles from Mexico, on the road to Acupulco. The result of
this interview was "the Plan of Iguala," proclaimed February
24, 1821. This plan was somewhat modified after
the arrival of O'Donohue, the newly-appointed Viceroy,
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/151/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .