(TEXAS) Canalizo Valentin Emotional message on the capture o

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(TEXAS.) Canalizo, Valentin. Emotional message on the capture of General Santa Anna in Texas. Letterpress broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4, signed in type as Governor of the State of Mexico; minor foxing, lacking a bit of the lower right corner. Toluca, 24 May 1836

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The Governor of Mexico responds to the news of General Santa-Anna's capture in Texas, asking that the people take up arms and do not relinquish them until the injustice is avenged. The opening lines are "El Gobernador del Departamento de México: á sus habitantes. Conciudadanos y amigos! Una de las bicisitudes tan comunes en la guerra á hecho que el digno Presidente de la República General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa-Anna se encuentre prisionero entre los estrangeros colonos de Tejas." 2 examples in OCLC, and none traced at auction.