EL DESPERTADOR DEL PUEBLO SOBERANO, EN EL RECOBRAMIENTO DE SUS DERECHOS [caption title]

[Mexico]

Verlag: Impreso por Luis Heredia, Mexico City, 1838

[4]pp., including woodcut tailpiece, on a folded folio sheet. Light soiling. Tear in upper margin of second leaf, ink stamp in left margin of first page. Very good. An apparently unrecorded call to action on behalf of the liberal movement during Mexico's turbulent early years as a sovereign nation. This "Wake up call of a sovereign people" is largely generic in its statements, encouraging Mexican citizens to fight back against injustice and indignity. The anonymous author's progressive allegiances become clearer on the final page: "The religion of Jesus Christ.will always be the one professed by Mexicans until death.The maxims taught by the sacred gospels of this august religion are without doubt quite healthy, and it is necessary to know how to conform to them.but at the same time, [how to] fight against the fanaticism, preoccupations, and degrading tricks with which hypocritical Christians have discounted them" (our translation from the Spanish). The pamphlet concludes by presenting an effusive welcome to Mexico City for former president Valentin Gómez Farías: "Yes, the true Mexican Washington, honor of his homeland, the immaculate one, and the one who, in more prosperous times for freedom, knew how to give an unmistakable model of how free men should be governed. Let him rest calmly in the bosom of his adored homeland, surrounded by his tender and beloved offspring, who for so long were so unjustly proscribed, begging for foreign bread, because the lords of the chapel and ribbed hats wanted it that way." Farías was president of Mexico in 1833-34, during which time he worked against the entrenched clergy, abolishing certain special privileges of the Church and pushing for secular education. He was forcefully ousted from the capital a few years before this pamphlet was published by his conservative opponents. The turmoil brought about by the warring factions in Mexico came to a head in 1838, when the complaints of French settlers reached a boiling point and the French government intervened in what became known as the "Pastry War." During the hostilities, Santa Anna, returning from retirement, lost his leg in an unsuccessful attack on the French at Vera Cruz (the leg was buried with full military honors), and he used his sacrifice as an effective propaganda tool to launch himself back to prominence. Not recorded in Palau or on OCLC. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM57323

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Titel: EL DESPERTADOR DEL PUEBLO SOBERANO, EN EL ...
Verlag: Impreso por Luis Heredia, Mexico City
Erscheinungsdatum: 1838