The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 238
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly
is most desirous of forming a Commercial treaty with Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, and that to obtain this it would gladly
listen to the most liberal terms, as to commercial intercourse. And
also conclude Arrangements for the final abolition of Slavery
throughout the Texian Republic. In order to accomplish this
great object, I think the present circumstances are peculiarly favor-
able, and that Her Majesty's Ministers have now an opportunity
of inflicting a Mortal wound on the giant slavery existing in the
United States, by simply forming a Commercial treaty with the
Independent Republic of Texas, but in which treaty the full
Abolition of slavery should be made the Sine qua Non.
When Texas first achieved her Independence, her population was
small, and in her hour of need and difficulty, her then Government
sanctioned the Planters and Slave Owners of the United States,
with their Slaves, to settle in the New Republic, but now her sit-
uation is greatly altered.-Her population has immensely increased,
and is daily increasing, not only in numbers but also in physical
and moral power. In this respect she has exceeded the expecta-
tions of her most sanguine friends
The number of Slaves already in Texas is, as before mentioned,
not large, and it is generally believed that her Government would
readily entertain any feasible plan by which this blighting section
of her laws might be for ever expelled from her judicial Code.-
The friends of abolition are numerous and powerful even in that
Republic.-The persons in Authority at present are also disposed
to get rid of Slavery and would gladly listen to the proposal if
accompanied with a treaty of Commerce from Great Britain. In-
deed the moral tone and influence already produced by the large
numbers of Emigrants from Europe and the Northern States of
America already begin to assume an import station [important
character?] in favor of freedom.
Many of the Slaves now labouring in Texas are only hired out
by their owners in the United States to the Texian Planters, who
can afford a much higher rate of Wages to labourers than is paid
in the Union, with such there could be no difficulty
The very important commercial treaties lately effected by Your
Lordship, and your coadjutors afford a most substantial proof of
willingness and activity in behalf of the general commerce of our
Country, and as the cause which I am humbly advocating, com-238
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