A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . SPANISH DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION IN TEXAS. 49 political institutions of the land. The army having been edu-cated to know and exercise its authority in the conquest of theterritory, and having been used to support the Church in itsmissionary labors, never surrendered its authority to the civilgovernment of the colonies. It was this mixture of the military,ecclesiastical, and civil power, with the balance in favor of themilitary, that renders the history of the Spanish possessions inAmerica so confusing and unsatisfactory, and i
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . SPANISH DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION IN TEXAS. 49 political institutions of the land. The army having been edu-cated to know and exercise its authority in the conquest of theterritory, and having been used to support the Church in itsmissionary labors, never surrendered its authority to the civilgovernment of the colonies. It was this mixture of the military,ecclesiastical, and civil power, with the balance in favor of themilitary, that renders the history of the Spanish possessions inAmerica so confusing and unsatisfactory, and its dangerous in-fluence on political and personal liberty has been demonstrated Pkriod I. Spanish Domination 152S TO182 I. Indiof Keducidos. throughout all the subsequent experience of New Spain. Infact, we have here demonstrated, in the rude society of thoseearly days, the operation of those two forces which are a curseto the liberties and prosperity of any country when allowed todominate its institutions, and which h;\ve been more than allthings else the cause of the political and social misfortunes ofboth Old and New Spain,—the Army and the Church. The monks of the Order of St. Francis, or Franciscans as The work ofthey were called, were the first missionaries of New Spain. After ^^^•^^^scan monks the conquest of Mexico in 1521, until 1590, these holy friars 3 .o A COMPLKTe: history of TEXAS. Pkkmod 1. SlANISH Domination1528 TOI82I founded the convents and stations which became the centres ofcolonization and the sources of civihzation among the accompanied every expedition, and amid the cruekies ofsavage warfare, their churches and chapels were the only redeem-ing features in the other
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