25. [BORDERLANDS]. MEXICO (Republic).
EJÉRCITO DEL NORTE. GENERAL EN GEFE (Mariano
Arista). El C. Mariano Arista, general de brigada del
Egército Megicano y en gefe del cuerpo de
Egército del Norte. A las tropas de mi mando y
á los habitantes de la frontera e los Departamentos
de oriente, hago saber: [text commences, proclaiming
forbidding engaging in contraband trade across the Texan
border and providing for penalties and division of captured
contraband]. Sabinas [Nuevo Leon], April 13, 1841. Folio
broadside. Very fine, with an English translation
included.
First
printing. Streeter 966 (2 locations, Streeter copy now
at Yale and TxU). Streeter Sale 373. Arista proclaims (in
part): "With the wish of stemming the tide of the
scandalous trade between our border residents and the
Texans, who are now enemies of the Republic, with notorious
disregard for the laws, ordinances, and edicts governing
this activity, which trade is prejudicial not only to the
public treasury and the legitimate private businesses of
the border area, but even more, aids the enemy, tendering
to them the goods that they need and enabling them to
maintain with us relations which we ought to counteract at
all costs as long as they remain separated from submission
to the Supreme National Government."
($400-800)