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The Southwestern, Historical Quarterly
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN7
Private. White Sulphur Springs
Virginia July 10th. 1844.
My Lord,
In a kind private letter from Mr Clay to me, dated on the 29th
Ultimo, reproaching me for not paying him a visit on my way to
these Mountains, he observes "My predictions as to the fate of the
Texas treaty before the Senate were fully verified, the decision
of that body will vindicate the good faith and honor of the U.
States"
"The Author of the Negotiations has totally failed in the object
which unquestionably moved him to open it" (Mr. Clay means
here the disunion of the Whig party and he goes on to say) "It
could not secure him even the nomination of the Democratic Con-
vention, nor with the treaty exert any material influence on the
existing canvass. I consider the success of the Whig cause is
beyond all doubt."
It has occurred to me that Your Lordship would be pleased to
hear these views, and I hope, therefore, to be excused for this
intrusion. Your Lordship will have observed from my despatches
that I did not consider it suitable to avail myself of the permission
to return to Europe in the condition of affairs which had come
about, by the time that it reached me ; neither have I liked to
do so. till replies to the intelligence of the failure of the treaty
shall have reached me, either directly, or through Mr. Pakenham.
In the mean time I am glad to find that Mr. Pakenham agrees
with me in thinking there is no need for my return to Texas till
we shall be further instructed from England.
Your Lordship is aware that I am ready for any service that
may be charged to me.
Charles Elliot.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
7P. O., Texas, Vol. 9.
8Elliot, though recuperating in Virginia, presumably knew by this time
(through Pakenham) of the determination to which Aberdeen had come
in May, 1844, of preventing the Annexation of Texas. The "Murphy
Memorandum," an outline of a plan by which England, France, and
Mexico were to act in concert in prohibiting annexation had been drawn
up by Aberdeen and the Mexican minister, Murphy, in London, on May
29, 1844. For text of the memorandum, see Adams, British Interests and
Activities in Texas, 168-169. For paraphrased translation, see Smith,
The Annewation of Texas, 389.
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