The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, July 1912 - April, 1913 Page: 196
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I need scarcely say that the President's messages returning the
Land Bills to Congress, without his approval, are known to me;
and bearing as they do, so forcibly upon the subject of these
claims, I have thought it convenient to forward copies of them to
Her Majesty's Government.
Upon the general consequences of that Legislation so clearly
foreseen, and so, emphatically deprecated, in those masterly papers,
it is not my province to remark: But speaking of the particular
rights forming the subject of this communication it is a source of
regret indeed, that the President's objections to the Bills was un-
availing
I had hoped that Congress would not separate, without passing
some just and effectual measure of relief for alien claimants, in
the situation of these parties founded upon the representation
which I had the honor to address to this Government on the 30th
September last: That hope, however, has been disappointed, and
it remains for me to state, in obedience to my Instructions, that
unless the facts set forth by these British claimants are refused
or a satisfactory explanation given, The Texian Government must
be aware that Her Majesty's Government would be fully author-
ised to take the necessary steps for enforcing the just claims of
Her Majesty's subjects.
I commit these cases, recommended by every consideration of
justice, and I use the freedom to add of sound policy, with the
confident persuasion, that they will have the cordial support of
the President. I cannot but express the sanguine hope too, that
Congress at this more advanced period of the progress of the Re-
public will remedy in the behalf of these claimants, the effects of
wrongful Legislation, probably attributable to haste and pressure,
incidental to the early and disturbed state of affairs in which it
was passed.
Charles Elliot
To The Honorable Anson Jones.
N. B.
The inclosures adverted to in the letter of which the above is
a copy have not been forwarded to England because, it is under-
stood, that a copy of Mr. Beales' Memorial and of the book from
which the abstract has been drawn up must be in the Department.
Charles Elliot.196
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