1.          Coahuila y Tejas State Flag:    Based upon a militia flag from Nacogdoches   that was required in 1828, it is assumed that the Mexican eagle adorned the flag like the National Flag and the name of the state was added at the top. <1>

2..         Revised Coahuila y Texas Flag (double star). Texas was a province affiliated with Coahuila (a double state).   Capital was at Saltillo until moved to Monclova on March 9, 1833. The flag was made with two stars in vertical position which replaced the eagle motif of the Mexican National flag.   Coahuila and Texas were joined as one state in 1825. Almonte said it was flown at the Alamo when SA arrived. Also shown in a sketch by Sanchez-Navarro during the siege.   Some would argue that this is not logical since it would indicate a continued effort to remain in the Mexican nation and by 1836 all hopes of compromise and conciliation had passed and the aim of the resistance had turned to independence.   Assume the six pointed stars were used since in the Mexican tradition.   To use a five-pointed star would indicate U. S. interests above Mexican.   <2>

In April, 1833 Texas suggested separation from Coahuila as a separate Mexican state.   Sam Houston chaired the committee that drafted the sample state constitution.   Austin took the application for separate statehood to Mexico City to present it to the newly elected President Santa Anna.   Santa Anna, gone on campaign, had turned running of the country over to his vice-president Gomez Farias.   Farias denied Austin’s request.   When Santa Anna returned in November Austin again made his plea, but to no avail. Austin returned to Saltillo and was arrested in January 1834 for writing a letter suggesting that Texians should continue to set up a provisional organization for a separate state.   He was returned to Mexico City and remained there in jail until released in June 1835. Meanwhile, Farias federalist reforms were not popular with the church and the military.   Santa Anna returned in April 1834 and exiled Farias. By October 1835 a centralist government replaced the federalist and Santa Anna became a de facto dictator. The Centralist   were   considered conservatives and Federalist were the liberals. <3>

Footnotes:

<1>Pomeroy, Mayberry-10
<2>Veazey & Potter, p. 6; Texas Alamanc, p. 162; Mayberry, p. 12; Pomeroy
<3> Texas Alamanc, p. 184, 185; Barker, p. 370-392

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