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Texas As a Province and Republic 1795-1845 Reel Listing Texas as a Province and Republic 1795-1845 Reel Listing Advocate of the People's Rights, Brazoria. Alsbury, Horace A., d. 1847. Extra. Brazoria, Wednesday, March 27, 1834. To the People of Texas. [Brazoria: Printed at the Office of the Advocate of [Brazoria: Printed by F.C. Gray]. [1835] the People's Rights]. [1834] 53; [Text begins:] Arriving this day from Monterray 42; [Published "for the sole purpose of laying before [sic] ... [continues with] information which I possess the public" a letter from Stephen F. Austin to the in regard to the designs of the Mexican Government Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin dated towards the people of Texas ... [Signed and dated at "Monterry [sic], Jan. 17, 1834.", but including a end:] Horatio A. Alsberry [sic]. Columbia, August number of other items. Text begins:] The present 28th, 1835.; Broadside in two columns. 19.3 x 15.4 Extra closes the career of the "Advocate," until the cm.; This handbill, from which Dr. Barker in Johnson return of Oliver H. Allen, the Editor, who is now and Barker, Texas and Texans, quotes at considerable absent in the U.S. of the North ...; Broadsheet, both length in Vol. I, p. 243, gives a report from Alsbury, sides in three columns. 45.5 x 30 cm.; This is one of just back from Mexico, that the Mexican government the letters written by Austin after his arrest at Saltillo plans to establish an "arbitrary despotism" in Texas, on January 3, 1834, when on his way back to Texas "drive from the country a number of our principal from his mission to Mexico City. The letter is dated citizens," and "put their slaves free and let them loose from Monterrey, where for some reason he was taken upon their families." He urges that "immediate steps before being returned to Mexico City, and is printed be taken for our preservation." Alsbury says he is in full in the Austin Papers, Vol. II, p. 1039-1041. giving this information at the request of the Chairman Austin asks that there be no excitement about his of the Committee of Safety for the jurisdiction of arrest and says that the general government is Columbia. The handbill, undoubtedly issued by the disposed, within the limits of its constitutional Columbia committee, which at its August 15 powers, to act for the good of Texas. Following meeting, see entry No. 60, had voted for a Austin's letter is a translation of the letter from the Consultation of Texas, marks another step towards Minister of Foreign Relations to Austin, dated warlike, rather than peaceful, measures by the Mexico, December 7, 1833. The Spanish text of the Texans, for, as Johnson and Barker remark, Vol. I, p. December 7 letter is in the Austin Papers, Vol. II, p. 238, of the work cited above, "there is little doubt 1017. Nothing seems to be known about Oliver H. that the peace party was in the ascendency down at Allen, except that he was the editor of the Advocate.; least to the middle of August." It was not until a Locations: TxU. fortnight later, when Austin made his famous speech Reel: 1 at the Brazoria dinner of September 8, entry No. 56, that the die was cast for war rather than peace. The Allen, Augustus Chapman, 1806-1864. sketch of Alsbury in the Handbook of Texas shows The town of Houston. that he was one of Austin's "Old Three Hundred" and [Columbia? Printed at the Telegraph Office?]. [1836] was active in military affairs until he met his death in 112.1; [Text begins:] Situated at the head of the Mexican War.; This handbill is reprinted in the Navigation, on the west bank of Buffalo Bayou, is Austin Papers, Vol. III, p. 107-108.; Locations: CtY. now for the first time brought to public notice Reel: 1 [Signed at end:] A.C. Allen, J.K. Allen; Broadside 23 x 14 cm.; Dated at end: August 30, 1836. Augustus Archer, Branch Tanner, 1790-1856. Allen and his brother John moved to Texas in 1832, To the Editor of the Texas Republican. settling first at San Augustine, then at Nacogdoches. [At end:] F.C. Gray, Printer, Brazoria. [1835] In 1836 they bought from John Austin his half league 54; [Text begins:] Sir: -- The following letter has of land on Buffalo Bayou and determined to build a been just received from W.H. Wharton, Esq. in town there and name it for Sam Houston. By offering answer to my annunciation of his election as to build a capitol at their own expense and provide Commissioner to the United States ... B.T. Archer. other accomodations they persuaded the government San Felipe, Dec. 2, 1835. [Followed by Wharton's to move to their new town, and in May of 1837 letter declining the appointment, dated at beginning, Houston became the capital of Texas. There are San Felipe, November 28, 1835, and signed:] articles on both Augustus and John Allen in the William H. Wharton.; Broadside in three columns. Handbook of Texas.; Locations: Entered from a copy 35.8 x 26 cm.; See note to entry No. 55.; Locations: privately owned. TxHSJM. TxU. TWS. Reel: 1 Reel: 1 1 Texas as a Province and Republic 1795-1845 Reel Listing Archer, Branch Tanner, 1790-1856. Austin, John, 1801-1833. To the Editors of the Telegraph. To the Public. [San Felipe de Austin: Printed by Baker & Bordens]. [Brazoria: Printed by D.W. Anthony]. [1832] [1835] 24; [A bitter attack on William H. Wharton who is 55; [Text begins:] Gentlemen, I herewith transmit to charged with cowardice at the "battle of Velasco" and you, for publication, a copy of an official letter which with falsely claiming that he "planned the whole I addressed to Wm. H. Wharton, together with his attack at Fort Velasco." Text begins:] I am averse to answer. ... B.T. Archer. San Felipe, December 2, troubling the public with individual difficulties, but it 1834 [i.e. 1835.] [Followed by notice of Archer to sometimes becomes necessary for one citizen, when Wharton of his election as a commissioner to the attacked in a publication by another, to answer in the United States, and by Wharton's letter of declination, same manner. ... [Dated and signed at end:] Brazoria, dated at end, November 26, 1835.]; Broadside in Dec. 18, 1832. John Austin.; Broadside in two three columns. 40 x 32.5 cm.; Wharton declined the columns. 27 x 19 cm.; This broadside gives John appointment of the Consultation on the ground that Austin's reply to a handbill of the two Whartons, its November Declaration in favor of the Mexican William and his younger brother John, entry No. 34, Constitution of 1824 was too indefinite to induce aid but no copy located, and of a handbill by Henry from foreign governments, and recommended that a Smith and others dated December 16, 1832, entry No. new Convention be called with power to declare 30, only copy located in my collection, both attacking independence and form a constitution for Texas. John Austin. One of the charges, which sounds a little Shortly afterwards he reconsidered and accepted. odd today, was that John Austin was a member of a Wharton's letter of November 28 forwarded by faction headed by Stephen F. Austin. There is still Archer to the Texas Republican is somewhat longer another handbill in the dispute, entry No. 31, by and more carefully expressed than his November 26 Peyton R. Splane. John Austin joined the Long letter published by the Telegraph, but in substance Expedition when a boy of eighteen and first got to the two letters are the same. The earlier letter to the know Stephen F. Austin when a prisoner in Mexico Telegraph is reprinted in the Austin Papers, Vol. III, City. This ripened into a close friendship. Later John p. 265-267. Archer was a member of the April, 1833, Austin became a successful merchant at Brazoria, a convention, president of the Consultation of 1835, delegate to the convention of 1832, and a leader in one of the three commissioners to the United States, the Battle of Velasco. William H. Wharton, who also speaker of the Texas House of Representatives at the lived on the lower Brazos, was a wealthy and second session of the First Congress, and secretary of prominent Texas lawyer and a leading figure with war under Lamar. He is the subject of a sketch by Dr. John Austin at the July, 1832, grand dinner at Barker in the Dictionary of American Biography.; Brazoria in honor of Mexia, the representative of Locations: TxU. TWS. Santa Anna, then in successful revolt against the Reel: 1 President of Mexico, Bustamante. For more about Wharton, see the note to his "Hand-Bill," entry No. 34. The chances are that John Austin's pride was severely wounded by the assertion of John A. Wharton that his brother, William H., "planned the whole attack at Velasco." The battle of handbills followed. John Austin died in the summer of 1833, a victim of the cholera epidemic. For what little is known of Anthony see the "Sketch of Printing" [located in Collection Information].; Locations: TWS. Reel: 1 2 Texas as a Province and Republic 1795-1845 Reel Listing Austin, Stephen Fuller, 1793-1836. Austin, Stephen Fuller, 1793-1836. [Brazoria: Printed at the Office of the Advocate of [San Felipe de Austin: Printed at the Mexican Citizen the People's Rights]. [1833] Office?]. [1831] 35; [Letter, dated "City of Mexico, July 24, 1833.", 20; [Form of certificate that a given person is addressed "To the Central Committee", and signed, admitted by Austin into his colony as a colonist, to be Stephen F.
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