Stephen F. Austin and the settlers in…
July 1833 CE
Austin therefore travels to Mexico City in July 1833 with a petition asking for separate statehood from Coahuila, a better judicial system, and the repeal of the April 6 law that had caused the first Anahuac and Velasco Disturbances (1832), among other things.
After meeting with Farías, Austin’s requests are all approved except for separate statehood, which requires a population of eighty thousand before it can be granted, and Texas has only thirty thousand.
Despondent over not getting Texas separated from Coahuila, Austin writes an angry letter to a friend, which seems to encourage rebellion.
Mexican officials intercept the letter, and Austin is arrested for sedition.
He will spend eighteen months in prison.
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