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Envisioning Empire from Inside the United States: Exile, Constitutional Monarchism, and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Independence Mexico

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Nicolás Alejandro González Quintero*
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Abstract

This article examines Tiburcio Campe's newspaper El Español, a brief yet concerted effort by exiled Spanish liberals in New Orleans that drew on the Cádiz constitutional experiment to demand the return of imperial rule in Mexico in the late 1820s. Exiled from Mexico as a consequence of the expulsion laws against Spaniards (españoles), Campe used his newspaper to criticize republican exclusionary policies and to militate against a possible expansion of abolitionism, ethnic conflict, and anti-white proposals in the Caribbean, promoting imperial constitutionalism as the only guarantor of the coexistence of Spaniards and Americanos and racial hierarchies in the Americas. Discussions regarding political and racial equality in Mexico and the United States, and the community's experience of exile in New Orleans, shaped these ideas, revealing how the banishment of Campe and other Spanish liberals renewed their advocacy of empire. Moreover, their exile in the United States facilitated their participation in the transatlantic public sphere and the circulation of their work, illustrating how the United States became a platform for envisioning and propagating imperial endeavors. Thus a study of El Español and Tiburcio Campe's actions allows us to comprehend the intricacies between exile and pro-monarchical discourses, as well as the nature of political and racial equality in the post-independence Americas.

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exileSpanish American revolutionstransatlantic public spherecitizenshipNew OrleansMexico

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The Americas , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , October 2023 , pp. 537 - 568
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Footnotes

I presented earlier versions of this article at the workshop Slavery, Trade, Law, and Empires in the Early Modern Atlantic (University of Texas at Austin, 2019) and the Congresso Internacional Independências do Brasil (São Paulo, 2022). I would like to thank the participants of these events. I would like to express my gratitude as well to Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, the anonymous readers for The Americas, Lina del Castillo, Seth Garfield, Sarah Chambers, Jan C. Jansen, Thomas Mareite, Sophie Rose, Ana Joanna Vergara, Jannik Keindorf, Sibylle Fourcaud, Megan Maruschke, Alexander Chaparro Silva, Álvaro Caso Bello, Diego A. Godoy, and Thomas Elliott for their insightful comments and suggestions. I extend my gratitude also to Rafael Marquese and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) (Project 2022/03781-2) for their support in São Paulo, and the Huntington Library and the Department of History of the University of Texas at Austin for granting me fellowships for archival research. This publication received support from a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 849189). Special thanks to Nathalia Sandoval Rojas.

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94. La Abeja (New Orleans), January 20, 1830, 3.

95. Francisco Dionisio Vives to Conde de Villanueva, Havana, December 23, 1829, ANC, Asuntos Políticos, 116, exp. 50.

96. El Sol (Mexico City), June 15, 1830, 1398.

97. El Sol (Mexico City), June 2, 1830, 1345.

98. El Sol (Mexico City), March 8, 1830, 1004.

99. Article 5, Constitución de la Monarquía Española, Promulgada en Cádiz a 19 de Marzo de 1812, 4.

100. Antonio Feros, Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017), 234.

101. I took this reading of Blanco White from Roberto Breña, “José María Blanco White y la Independencia de América: ¿Una postura pro-americana?,” Historia Constitucional 3 (2002): 1-17.

102. Despedida, El Español, August 4, 1830, 1.

103. Al público, El Español, May 25, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

104. Al público, El Español, May 25, 1830, 2.

105. Prospecto, El Español, December 11, 1829, 1.

106. Chaparro Silva has explored this strategy in Tierra Firme's royalist thought. See Chaparro Silva, “‘Todas las cosas tienen su tiempo’. Temporalidad e historia durante la restauración monárquica en la Tierra Firme (1814–1819).”

107. Variedades, El Español, May 11, 1829, 1.

108. Variedades, El Español, (New Orleans), May 11, 1829, 1.

109. Variedades, El Español, May 1, 1829, 2.

110. De José Roca Santi-Pietri, El Español, June 26, 1829, 3.

111. Ley de espulsión, El Español, April 16, 1829, 1.

112. Ley de espulsión, El Español, April 16, 1829, 1.

113. Alcance extraordinario al número 2 de El Español (New Orleans), April 11, 1829, 1.

114. Representación de las esposas e hijas de los peninsulares espulsos al presidente de los Estados Unidos Mejicanos, El Español, January 12, 1830, 2. Italics in the original.

115. Esposición que varias señoras veracruzanas dirigieron el primero de abril al escelentísimo señor gobernador del estado, general Santana, El Español, June 1, 1829, 1.

116. Esposición que varias señoras veracruzanas dirigieron el primero de abril al escelentísimo señor gobernador del estado, general Santana, El Español, June 1, 1829, 1.

117. Al público, El Español, July 1, 1829, 3.

118. Remitido, El Español, August 6, 1829, 2.

119. A los españoles, El Español, August 21, 1829, 1.

120. A los españoles, El Español, August 21, 1829, 1.

121. Remitido, El Español, August 26, 1829, 4. Italics in the original.

122. Remitido, El Español, August 26, 1829, 4.

123. Variedades, El Español, April 21, 1829, 1.

124. Variedades, El Español, March 20, 1830, 1.

125. Variedades, El Español, August 26, 1829, 1.

126. Ibar published extensively in Mexico. His work criticizing Masonic lodges’ factionalism was reprinted during the following years. See Rafael Rojas, “La frustración del primer republicanismo mexicano,” in El republicanismo en Hispanoamérica: ensayos de historia intelectual y política, José Antonio Aguilar and Rafael Rojas, eds. (Mexico City: Centro de Investigación y Docencia/Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002), 419.

127. Variedades, El Español, August 26, 1829, 1.

128. Variedades, El Español, August 26, 1829, 1.

129. Variedades, El Español, April 11, 1829, 2.

130. Manifiesto que el gobierno de Nueva España, constituido por su legítimo Soberano de Señor Don Fernando VII y representado por el Virrey D. Félix María Calleja, hace a todas las Naciones contra las falsedades, calumnias, y errores que han producido los rebeldes de Mexico en un papel intitulado: El Supremo Congreso Mexicano a todas las Naciones, escrito en Puruarán a 28 de junio de 1815.

131. Manifiesto que el gobierno de Nueva España..., El Español, February 12, 1830, 3.

132. Manifiesto que el gobierno de Nueva España..., El Español, February 12, 1830, 3.

133. Al público, El Español, July 14, 1830, 3.

134. Remitido, El Español, February 16, 1830, 4.

135. Noticias, El Español, December 28, 1829, 3.

136. Remitido, El Español, February 16, 1830, 4.

137. Méjico, 31 de enero de 1830, El Español, April 3, 1830, 2.

138. Variedades, El Español, April 9, 1830, 2.

139. Remitidos, El Español, January 21, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

140. Remitidos, El Español, January 21, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

141. Remitidos, El Español, January 21, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

142. Remitidos, El Español, January 21, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

143. Sabau, Ana, Riot and Rebellion in Mexico: The Making of a Race War Paradigm (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022), 132–134Google Scholar.

144. República Mejicana, El Español, February 28, 1830, 2. Italics in the original.

145. Conspiración, El Español, March 19, 1830, 4. Organized by the Águila Negra, a masonic lodge with branches in México and Cuba, this conspiracy sought to overthrow the Spanish government on the island. Spanish representatives in the United States discovered it and notified Cuban authorities about the masonic lodge's plans. See Vilaboy, Sergio Guerra, “México y Cuba: primeros esfuerzos por la independencia cubana, 1820-1830,” Sotavento 2:4 (1998), 53–54Google Scholar.

146. República Mejicana, El Español, June 25, 1830, 4.

147. For how revolutionaries crafted discourses of “racial harmony” to consolidate republican regimes in Spanish America, especially in Colombia, see Marixa Lasso, Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795–1831 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007); and Lasso, Marixa, “Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832,” American Historical Review 111:2 (2006): 336–361CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

148. Milicia, El Español, May 11, 1829, 3.

149. Milicia, El Español, May 11, 1829, 3.

150. Nueva Orleans, El Español, May 14, 1830, 4. Italics in the original.

151. Otro, El Español May 16, 1830, 4.

152. Nueva Orleans, El Español May 14, 1830, 1.

153. Despedida, El Español, August 4, 1830, 2.

154. Miguel Tacón to Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Ultramar, Havana, April 30, 1835, Archivo Histórico Nacional (Madrid), Ultramar, 4603, pieza 23.