The independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico was declared during the Texas Revolution that took place between (October 2, 1835, and April 21, 1836), and this independence was adopted on March 2, 1836, under the Convention "Washington on Brazos" (a historical site of the state established along the Brazos River in Washington County, Texas while it was still part of Mexico), which was signed the following day after noticing errors in the text.
The real reasons
Settlers launched the Texas Revolution in October 1835 in Mexican Texas.
That said, many in Austin struggled to understand what the ultimate goal of the revolution was. Some believed that complete independence from Mexico was necessary, while others sought to revive and implement the Mexican Constitution of 1824, as the Mexican Constitution offered greater freedoms than those declared by the central government of Mexico the previous year. To resolve this issue, the Convention of March 1836 was necessary.
This agreement differed from the earlier Texas assemblies of 1832-33 and the Shuras of 1835. Among the delegates attending the conference were young men who had recently arrived in Texas from the United States in violation of the immigration ban imposed by Mexico. in April 1830, although many of them had participated in one of the 1835 battles. Among the signatories were two well-known Native Texans, Jose Francisco Ruiz, and Jose Antonio Navarro. The majority of the delegates were of the party and were determined that Texas be declared independent from Mexico. By February twenty-eighth, forty-one mined had arrived in Washington-on-Brazos
Development
We hold the conference on March 1 under the chairmanship of the politician and judge Richard Ellis. The commissioners chose five members to form a committee that would draft a declaration of independence; Including Edward Conrad, James Gaines, Billy Hardiman, Colin McKinney and chaired by the politician and lawyer George Childers, the committee submitted its draft in only 24 hours, leading historians to speculate that Childers wrote a lot of them before reaching the agreement.
The Declaration of Independence was approved without discussion on March 2, in which it was announced that the Mexican government had ceased to protect the lives, liberties, and property of the people; those from which it derived its legal authority. It complained of acts of abuse, persecution, and tyranny. References are made throughout the Declaration to a number of laws, rights, and customs of the United States. Barred from the announcement is the fact that the author and a number of signatories were citizens of the United States, and that they illegally settled/occupied Texas, for which reason they had no rights in the government of Mexico. The declaration also explained that the men had become so accustomed to the laws and privileges of the United States that they were ignorant of the language, religion, and traditions of the nation they were revolting against.
The Republic of Texas was officially established after the proclamation, although at that time it was not officially recognized by any government except itself. The Mexican Republic still claimed the land, considering the commissioner's invaders.
The announcement mentions the reasons that led to the separation, including:
- Mexico's 1824 Constitution, which established a federal republic, was abolished and replaced with a centralized military dictatorship by General Antonio López de Santa Anna. (From the Mexican perspective, the 1835 elections eliminated many conservative politicians who intended to strengthen the Mexican government and defend their nation from the illegal invasion of American immigrants. They amended the 1824 Constitution by passing seven laws.
- The Mexican government invited the settlers to Texas, promising them constitutional freedom and a republican government, but then reneged on these guarantees. (It failed to mention that many settlers, including the author and the majority of the signers, were uninvited illegal trespassers).
- Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital at distant Saltillo, and thus Texas affairs were determined at a great distance from the county, and in Spanish, the immigrants called them "the unknown language".
- The political rights that settlers were accustomed to in the United States, such as the right to own and bear arms, were denied the right to a jury trial. The right to retain slavery was endangered by the Mexican constitution of 1824.
- No public education system was established.
- Attempts by the Mexican government to impose import duties were labeled "pirate attacks" by "outlaw aliens."
- Religious freedom was not easy, as all legal citizens had to convert to Catholicism.
- Based on the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the language of the Texas Declaration of Independence contained many memorable expressions of American political principles:
- The right to trial by jury is the sole protector of civil liberty and the sure guarantee of a citizen's life, liberty, and property.
The signatories of the agreement
Sixty men signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Mexico was the birthplace of three of them, while the rest had moved to Texas from the United States. Ten of them had lived in Texas for more than six years, while a quarter had been in the county for less than a year. This is significant because it indicates that the majority of those who signed moved to Texas after the law of April 6, 1830, which prohibited immigration, which means that the law was in effect and therefore the majority were legally American citizens, illegally occupying Texas, nine Fifty of the men were commissioners of the convention, while one of them was secretary and not commissioner, Herbert S. Kimball.
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