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The Southwesterm Historical Quarterly
course has contributed much to promote that object, and that in so
doing I express the sentiments of a large Majority of my fellow
Citizens.
A. J. Yates.
[Endorsed]. Inclosure No. 1 in Captain Elliot's Despatch No
19. to the Earl of Aberdeen. July '15. 1843.
ELLIOT TO YATES26
Private Galveston July 13th. 1843.
Sir.
I beg to acknowledge your letter of Yesterday's date founded
upon a letter from you to Mr. S. Converse, recently published in
Boston.
Whenever the subject matter of that communication has been
mentioned to me in conversation, either by you, or any other Gen-
tleman of my acquaintance in the Republic, I have invariably
made the remark to which you advert, namely, that I was in-
structed to interfere in no manner with the internal institutions
or regulations of this Government.
But either in doing that, or in denying the unfounded charge
of undue interference, I have always guarded myself from being
supposed to entertain different opinions upon the general subject,
from those held by the great body of my Countrymen.
Sensible, however of the inconvenience of any misconception on
such a point I have also always said to others what I said to you;
that is, that what fell from me must be particularly understood
to be no more than the expression of my own individual opinion,
for I had neither knowledge of, nor authority to speak to, opin-
ions or feelings in any other quarter I can readily understand [in]
the hurry of your Communication to Mr. S. Converse you intended
to convey your own impressions founded upon your conservation
with me, and not my expressions. But at all events I entertainwF. 0., Texas, Vol. 6.
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