Document Signed by the President of Mexico by ANAYA, Pedro Maria (1795 - 1854) - 1847

[Mexico City], April 28, 1847.. Broadside, 19 x 12¼ inches. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Dampstained. Bottom left corner torn away (not affecting text), and a small tear along one fold, obscuring part of a word. Overall, good plus. An unrecorded broadside decree from interim President of Mexico, Pedro Maria Anaya, with orders to prepare for invasion and siege from the United States. Jose Ignacio Gutierrez, then Secretary of War and Navy, communicated the present decree to Ignacio Trigueros, Governor of the Federal District, who authorized its publication. This broadside, published after the American siege and subsequent occupation of Veracruz and the defeat of Mexican forces at Cerro Gordo, lays the foundation in eight articles for the Mexican people to thwart an expected siege by the United States. These articles include the ability of a Mexican territory to declare a siege in order to trigger military rule, with the declaration then being approved by "the Supreme Government" in… Read More

Mexico: Imp. de la Calle de Sta. Clara N. 23, 1847. First edition. Printed broadside, 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Anaya (1795-1854) was interim President of Mexico from April 2 - May 20, 1847, and again from November 13, 1847 - January 8, 1848, assuming office in the midst of the Mexican-American War. In this speech, given the day after his first appointment as interim president, he calls on his countrymen to rally to defeat the invader, saying he is prepared to take on the office thrust upon him under such difficult circumstances. OCLC locates one copy (Yale). Several chips and tears along the edges, stabilized by archival backing. Professionally backed with paper. (#6215).