Santa Anna to be tried & shot... More from Texas...
Item # 708078
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NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Aug. 6, 1836
* Texas War for Independence
* Santa Anna to be tried & shot
* Creek War - Cherokees - Indians
The front page has a short report concerning the "outrages" due to the rescue of two runaway slaves.
Other articles inside include: "Lynching Among the Indians" "The Creek War" with reports from Fort Mitchell, Alabama; "The Cherokees" "From Florida" "Mexico & the United States" "Western Indians" and "Texas", the latter mentioning that the Mexicans had not advanced and will not prosecute further operations against Texas, for the present, and with mention of Goliad, the Alamo, and San Jacinto.
There is also mention that Santa Anna has been taken to Nacogdoches where: "...he was to be tried there by a military commission and shot." and also mention that: "...the best thing the Mexicans can do will be to recognize the independence of Texas."
The back page has: "North Carolina Gold Mines" which mentions "Bechtler's Gold Coin" which currently sell for five figures.
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches, nice condition.
Background: This August 6, 1836 issue of Niles’ Weekly Register serves as an extraordinary historical lens capturing a defining flashpoint in North American history, most significantly through its raw, immediate coverage of the immediate aftermath of the Texas Revolution. Published just months after the tectonic Texan victory at San Jacinto, the reports detailing the captivity of General Santa Anna—including the vengeful, ultimately unrealized rumors that he would be tried and executed by a military commission in Nacogdoches—expose the volatile geopolitical chaos that eventually forced Mexico to withdraw and solidified the birth of the Republic of Texas. Beyond Texas, the issue’s reporting on the "Creek War" at Fort Mitchell and the escalating tensions surrounding the Cherokees document the brutal, structural realities of forced Native American removal under the Jackson administration just prior to the Trail of Tears, while the front-page accounts of runaway slave rescues highlight the fracturing national consensus over slavery. Finally, the back-page chronicle of North Carolina’s gold rush and Christopher Bechtler’s private gold coinage captures a rare moment in American economic history when private citizens minted their own currency to fuel regional economies before the federal government could adapt. Collectively, this single issue functions as a profound primary source, indexing the precise moment when the internal boundaries, economic engines, and moral battles of 19th-century America were being violently and permanently redrawn.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
* Texas War for Independence
* Santa Anna to be tried & shot
* Creek War - Cherokees - Indians
The front page has a short report concerning the "outrages" due to the rescue of two runaway slaves.
Other articles inside include: "Lynching Among the Indians" "The Creek War" with reports from Fort Mitchell, Alabama; "The Cherokees" "From Florida" "Mexico & the United States" "Western Indians" and "Texas", the latter mentioning that the Mexicans had not advanced and will not prosecute further operations against Texas, for the present, and with mention of Goliad, the Alamo, and San Jacinto.
There is also mention that Santa Anna has been taken to Nacogdoches where: "...he was to be tried there by a military commission and shot." and also mention that: "...the best thing the Mexicans can do will be to recognize the independence of Texas."
The back page has: "North Carolina Gold Mines" which mentions "Bechtler's Gold Coin" which currently sell for five figures.
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches, nice condition.
Background: This August 6, 1836 issue of Niles’ Weekly Register serves as an extraordinary historical lens capturing a defining flashpoint in North American history, most significantly through its raw, immediate coverage of the immediate aftermath of the Texas Revolution. Published just months after the tectonic Texan victory at San Jacinto, the reports detailing the captivity of General Santa Anna—including the vengeful, ultimately unrealized rumors that he would be tried and executed by a military commission in Nacogdoches—expose the volatile geopolitical chaos that eventually forced Mexico to withdraw and solidified the birth of the Republic of Texas. Beyond Texas, the issue’s reporting on the "Creek War" at Fort Mitchell and the escalating tensions surrounding the Cherokees document the brutal, structural realities of forced Native American removal under the Jackson administration just prior to the Trail of Tears, while the front-page accounts of runaway slave rescues highlight the fracturing national consensus over slavery. Finally, the back-page chronicle of North Carolina’s gold rush and Christopher Bechtler’s private gold coinage captures a rare moment in American economic history when private citizens minted their own currency to fuel regional economies before the federal government could adapt. Collectively, this single issue functions as a profound primary source, indexing the precise moment when the internal boundaries, economic engines, and moral battles of 19th-century America were being violently and permanently redrawn.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$39
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.