The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, July 1914 - April, 1915 Page: 414
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
organized, were to invoke the aid of France, to uphold them in
their efforts to sustain the independence of Texas against the
United States. With the progress of events, and for the purpose,
it may be, of attracting adherents, the Name of Her Majesty's
Charge d' Affaires was brought forward, as being equally propitious
to the design as the representative of France. Finally, it has been
stated, that, should the Treaty of Annexation be approved by the
Congress of the United States, Colonel Hockley and his Coadjutors
will urge forward the prosecution of their plan,--And should the
Treaty be rejected, Captain Elliot and M. d' Saligny will expedite
their return to Texas, to pursue the Course which circumstances
may seem to require-it being understood that President Houston
has pleaded their absence from the Seat of Government, during the
last Session of Congress, in defence of his yielding to the wishes
of the Texan Legislature on the Subject of Annexation.
This is an outline of the Communications, that have been made
to me, and which are submitted to Your Lordship as conveyed
from Creditable sources, and as affording means of explanation
in the event of any complication of affairs arising out of the
circumstances detailed
At a period so critical as the present, it may not be inopportune
to assure Your Lordship that I have strictly confined myself to
the sphere of an observer, limiting the active exercise of forethought
to the Condition of British Residents who, on the faith of it's In-
dependence, have selected Texas as a field of enterprize. I may be
permitted to add that, acting solely on my own responsibility, I
should certainly be wholly adverse, as a general rule, to any con-
nexion with the operations of local party, particularly at the present
juncture.-Nor, without impugning, the respectability and good
faith of Colonel Hockley and Mr. Williams, would I be at all in-
clined to make an exception in favour of their alleged Movement.
That Movement may be judicious in itself, becoming in its Au-
thors, patriotic as regards this Country and (what I should appre-
hend to be problematical) accompanied by a prospect of Success,-
but it is not to be forgotten that Mr Williams and Colonel Hockley
are of American birth and education, that the former was, at one
time, private secretary to General Andrew Jackson, and, not
remotely, a Member of General Houston's Administration, that414
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