Newberry Library - Mexican rule in California 1824-'48 : paper read before the Badger Club, Los Angeles, March 3rd 1909 : typescript, 1909

Mexican rule in California 1824-'48 : paper read before the Badger Club, Los Angeles, March 3rd 1909 : typescript, 1909

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Open book Mexican rule in California 1824-'48 : paper read before the Badger Club, Los Angeles, March 3rd 1909 : typescript, 1909

Title Mexican rule in California 1824-'48 : paper read before the Badger Club, Los Angeles, March 3rd 1909 : typescript, 1909

Creator Dillon, H.C

Date 1909

Subjects Governors, Indians of North America, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Missions

Description Caption title.
Stiff brown paper covers, covered with plain white paper, and tied with faded red cloth tape; in blue typescript on blue-lined notebook paper, with some ms. additions in ink, presumably by Dillon.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
In envelope.

Summary Typescript copy of a speech on the disastrous results of Mexican rule in Alta California between 1824 and 1848, written and delivered by Mr. H.C. Dillon before the California Badger Club in Los Angeles on Mar. 3, 1909. The author begins by attacking Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, the 18th-century writers whose works yielded a "fearful and bloody harvest" of revolution during the 19th century, and he links their ideas to the Mexican government of California which destroyed the missions first established by the Jesuits, and then taken over by the Dominicans and Franciscans. He praises the civilizing efforts of the missionary friars on Indigenous people, and criticizes Mexican governors Echeandia, who "secularized [the Indigenous people] with the new ideas of 'liberty, equality and fraternity'", Gov. Victoria who issued a proclamation for the secularization of the missions, and Gov. Figueroa, under whose rule the decree of secularization was finally passed in 1833. Under Pío Pico, the missions were finally ordered sold by a decree of May 28, 1845.

Extent 12, [1] leaves, bound ; 23 cm

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 240

BibID 180416

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1948px × 2778px 15.51 MB

File Created 09/06/2023

Filename 991804168805867_Ayer_MS_240_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11OOUA

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