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Catholic diocese map of Mexico, early nineteenth century. Courtesy of the Mapoteca “Manuel Orozco y Berra” del Ser vicio de Información Agroalimentaria y Pesquera. “Where the Cult is in the Hands of the People”: Enlightened Catholicism and Colonization on the Texas Frontier By Brian Stauffer* n November 1828, Father Miguel Ramos Arizpe, precentor in the cathedral of Puebla, wrote to the vice president of Mexico requesting Ipermission to colonize a strip of vacant land on the Rio Grande in the state of Coahuila y Texas. Ramos Arizpe proposed to settle two hundred families, which he hoped would be mostly Mexican nationals, “since it is my aim to encourage retired and injured soldiers and so many poor families from [Coahuila y Texas], Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to leave behind their miser y while also preventing our best lands from being taken by foreigners.” This was far from the first time the enlightened priest in- volved himself in the matter of northern colonization. Ramos Arizpe had called for the planting of colonies in the frontier provinces as Coahuila’s delegate at the Cortes of Cádiz (1810–12), where the native of Saltillo ser ved on the colonization committee; he also authored New Spain’s
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Jan 9, 2021
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