The Die is Cast

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Arts, Cabeza De Vaca, The Alamo, Battle Of Medina, San Antonio Missions, Texas, Mexico, Gutierrez-magee, Education, Comanches, Apaches, Society & Culture, San Antonio, Courses, Philosophy, History

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Episode 5 of Brandon Seale's podcast (in collaboration with Art Martínez de Vara) on the life and times of José Francisco Ruíz. For the fourth time in his life, José Francisco Ruíz had to decide where his loyalties lie: to his flag or to his ideology. In 1835, however, there would be no hesitation. Too old now to carry a rifle, Ruíz became a sort of "first quartermaster" of the 1835-36 Texas Revolution, in addition to one of only two Texas-born signers of this second Texas declaration of Ind...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Man for Texas. Episode 5, The Die is Cast. I'm Brandon Seal.
0:12.6	Unlike in 1813, in 1832, Tejano Federalists like Jose Francisco Ruiz were on the right side of history.
0:23.1	By December 1832,
0:30.5	Santa Ana's man was wearing the presidential sash. A spirit of hope prevailed. And yet, the pendulum of Mexican politics continued to swing wildly. A series of radical federalist measures
0:36.3	provoked a centralist backlash, and even Santa Ana, who was elected president as an avowed federalist, put his thumb on the scale in 1835, now in favor of the centralists.
0:47.6	In April 1835, Jose Antonio Navarro received the surprising news that he had been appointed a senator of the Mexican
0:54.5	Republic. It was an incredible honor, but it came at the tail end of a personally and politically
1:00.1	traumatic year. A cholera epidemic, the year prior, had carried away something like one-third
1:06.2	of the extended Navarro Ruiz Berramendi clan, including the then-governor of Guaulay, Texas, San
1:12.0	Antonian Juan Martin de Beramendi. Five governors had rotated through the governor's palace
1:17.5	since then, a sign of the instability of the times, and there were rumors that Santa Ana was about
1:23.0	to appoint a sixth one. Fed up with the politics of the moment, young Juan Sigein led a force of 100
1:29.2	bare volunteers to Kwaweila to defend the federalist state government. But Jose Antonio
1:34.8	Navarro's brother, Jose Ankel Navarro, the same Angel Navarro, who had been thrown out of the Royalist
1:39.8	Army in 1813, had been ordered by Santa Ana's government to recall Sigean's expeditionary force.
1:47.0	Ankel Navarro sandbagged, but eventually felt compelled to comply.
1:52.2	Some of the militia came back to Texas, but Sigeon and a few dozen of his most committed
1:57.3	federalist followers didn't.
2:00.4	In light of this turmoil, Jose Antonio suspected that his appointment to the Senate was more
2:05.5	symbolic than substantive, an attempt to use Navarro and his Federalist bona fides as window
2:10.6	dressing for the increasingly uncompromising centralists who had taken over the reins of government.
2:16.2	And so he turned, in his moment of uncertainty,
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