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EL DESPERTADOR DEL PUEBLO SOBERANO, EN EL RECOBRAMIENTO DE SUS DERECHOS [caption title]. An apparently unrecorded call to action on behalf of the liberal movement during Mexico's turbulent early years as a sovereign nation. This "Wake up call of a sovereign people" is largely generic in its statements, encouraging Mexican citizens to fight back against injustice and indignity. The anonymous author's progressive allegiances become clearer on the final page:"The religion of Jesus Christ...will always be the one professed by Mexicans until death....The maxims taught by the sacred gospels of this august religion are without doubt quite healthy, and it is necessary to know how to conform to them...but at the same time, [how to] fight against the fanaticism, preoccupations, and degrading tricks with which hypocritical Christians have discounted them" (our translation from the Spanish).The pamphlet concludes by presenting an effusive welcome to Mexico City for former president Valentin Gómez Farías:"Yes, the true Mexican Washington, honor of his homeland, the immaculate one, and the one who, in more prosperous times for freedom, knew how to give an unmistakable model of how free men should be governed. Let him rest calmly in the bosom of his adored homeland, surrounded by his tender and beloved offspring, who for so long were so unjustly proscribed, begging for foreign bread, because the lords of the chapel and ribbed hats wanted it that way."Farías was president of Mexico in 1833-3

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