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from sinking to such a low estate without representation in the
national government, he worked night and day reviewing in his
mind possible unions with Durango, Zacatecas, or even San Luis
Potosi. But these junctions presented a grave problem, for in
every case Coahuila would be the lesser part of the union by
reason of the uneven distribution of population and the great
distances encompassed in such a state. Then, Arizpe related, the
unhappy province of Texas came to his attention. Texas, whose
inhabitants were united to Coahuilans by blood and marriage,
was faced with the same problem as Coahuila: because of a lack
of population it was about to be reduced to a territorial status.
Obviously, the union with Texas was the solution to Coahuila's
problems.12
In the act which joined the two provinces there was incorpo-
rated the provision which the people of Texas had instructed their
deputy Seguin to have included in the Acta. That is, a provision
was made to the effect that as soon as Texas felt it had the neces-
sary qualifications for sustaining a state government it was to
inform the national congress. If the people of Texas did not ap-
prove of being left alone with Coahuila, this was the time to make
their objections heard in the national congress. Erasmo Seguin
in fact did object to Ramos Arizpe. Seguin threatened to demand
a separation of the two provinces even if it meant that Texas
would become a territory instead of a state.'" Perhaps if the
people of Texas had backed Seguin at this critical moment the
national congress would have separated Texas from Coahuila. But
leadership in Texas was slow to decide and the time for action
passed.
It was probably not until mid-June that Texas learned of the
elevation of Nuevo Leon and the creation of the new state of
Coahuila y Texas. At that time, the Texas deputy to the legisla-
ture of the defunct Internal State of the East, Baron de Bastrop,
was in Stephen F. Austin's colony issuing land titles to the first
three hundred colonists. Bastrop remained in the colony during
the months of July and August, while the new state legislature
12Vito Alessio Robles, Coahuila y Texas desde la consumacion de la independencia
hasta el tratado de paz de Guadalupe Hidalgo (2 vols.; Mexico, 1945), I, 172-175.
lSRamos Arizpe to Bexar ayuntamiento, September 15, 1824 (MSS., Bexar Ar-
chives, University of Texas Library).346
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