德克萨斯还是领土?1848-1850年,跨nueces的边疆分离主义与战后政治

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Bobby Cervantes
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摘要:本文记录了19世纪40年代末南德克萨斯商人从德克萨斯州分离出来,建立一个新的联邦领土,以保护他们在纽埃斯河和里约热内卢格兰德河之间的土地所有权的历史。他们的追求主要集中在跨纽埃塞斯地区,这是两条河流之间的土地的名称,但它也触及了内战前美国更广泛的政治敌对。特别是,南德克萨斯人的领土请愿书到达国会时,奴隶制的支持者和反对者正在就该制度在国家生活中的作用进行激烈的斗争。此外,在美墨战争结束后,要求跨纽埃西斯领土的呼声对美国和德克萨斯州来说是一种危机。实际上,南德克萨斯的分离主义者让两种权力相互对立,他们警告国会,德克萨斯立法机构即将没收他们的土地,并恳求联邦政府介入。通过同时向国会提出领土问题,并激怒奥斯汀的州议员,跨纽埃克企业家迫使德州政府采取行动,最终成立了一个委员会,迅速批准了这些人在该地区的土地所有权。领土运动是对1848年后的土地所有权安排的回应,商人们认为这是对他们经济实力的威胁。总的来说,这一事件揭示了国家历史上地方谈判的规模和持久力量。
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Texas or Territory? Borderlands Separatism and Postwar Politics in the Trans-Nueces, 1848–1850
Abstract:This article historicizes an effort by South Texas businessmen in the late 1840s to secede from the State of Texas and to create a new federal territory to protect their landholdings between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Their pursuit centered on the trans-Nueces region, as the land between the two rivers was called, but it also tapped into broader political hostilities in the antebellum United States. In particular, the South Texans' territorial petition arrived in Congress as slavery's proponents and opponents fought bitterly over the institution's role in national life. Further, calls for a trans-Nueces territory represented a crisis for the United States and Texas in the immediate aftermath of the Mexican-American War. In effect, the South Texas separatists pitted both powers against each other, warning Congress that the Texas Legislature was on the verge of confiscating their lands and pleading with the federal government to step in. By simultaneously introducing the territory issue in Congress and agitating state lawmakers in Austin, the trans-Nueces entrepreneurs forced open a new path toward resolution that provoked the Texas government to act, eventually creating a commission that swiftly endorsed the men's land titles in the region. The territorial campaign was a borderlands response to the post-1848 land tenure arrangement that the businessmen saw as a threat to their economic power. Overall, the episode reveals the dimensions and lasting power of local negotiations in national histories.
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