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printed." On the verso appeared the statement that the document
was "impreso por Juan J. M. Laran y S. Bancs."6
With one possible exception, the Proclama was the only printing
done by Bangs in Texas at this period, and after 1817 he was not
to print again within the borders of the present state for twenty-one
years. The possible exception was another proclamation issued by
General Mina at the mouth of the Rio Grande on April 12, 1817,
addressed to his Compa7eros de armas.' It seems likely that this
was printed, and by Bangs. And the probability is that it was
printed on the Texas side of the river.8
In 1839 Bangs was again to appear on the scene of his first work
and begin publication of the Galvestonian. He followed this by
work on the San Luis Advocate, published on Galveston Island,
where the 1817 Proclama had been printed. In 1842 he estab-
lished another Galveston paper, the Commercial Chronicle, and in
1845 he began the Galveston Daily Globe. Early in 1846 he estab-
lished the first of the war newspapers, the Corpus Christi Gazette,
which closed his remarkable career as a Texas printer. His period
of activity in Texas covered twenty-nine years, with a lapse of
more than two decades between his first and second appearances.9
6Bustamante, IV, 317-323. W. D. Robinson, Memorias de la Revoluoion
(London, 1824), 59.
6Bustamante, IV, 337, note.
'Bustamante, IV, 333, gives the text of this statement likewise in full.
8In view of the lack of certainty regarding this printing point, it is dis-
regarded in the sequential numbering of printing points in the portion of
this article that follows.
gA great deal of Bangs's work was done in Mexico, during the twenty-
one year interlude between his two Texas periods, and after his work was
completed there. He did the first printing in Texas; he introduced the
press to the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Coahuila; he was the first
printer in Monterey, capital of Nuevo Leon in Mexico; he printed the first
Galveston daily, the Chronicle; and he published the second English paper
in Mexico, the Matamaoras Reveille.
After Bangs issued the Proclama from the press on Galveston Island,
the Mina expedition again set sail, and April 12, 1817, they were at the
mouth of the Rio Grande where General Mina issued the statement Com-
paiferos de armas. The landing at Sota la Marina in April, 1817, was
commemorated by printing a patriotic song in five stanzas, composed by
Joaquin Infante, under whose direction the printing office had been con-
ducted on Galveston Island. It carried the imprint: "Sota la Marina,
1817. Samuel Bangs, impresor de la division ausiliar de la republica
mexicana." (Spell, p. 250.) A Boletim was also established and several
numbers were printed.
Meantime the chief purpose of the expedition had not been forgotten,
and Mina had set out for the interior of Mexico, leaving a small force
at Sota la Marina with Mier and Bangs. Sota la Marina was soon taken
by Arredondo, the royalist leader, and the members of the revolutionary
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