The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917 Page: 156
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156 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the result, in relation to Annexation, may depend upon causes
over which the President can exert little or no control. Al-
though the popular wish and feeling of Texas have heretofore
been frankly and warmly expressed by her Citizens, in favour
of the Measure, yet Mr Donaldson cannot have failed to perceive
that the strength and ardour of that wish have been necessarily,
in some degree, diminished by the delay and apparent defeat of
the Measure, by the rejection of the late Treaty, by the Senate
of the United States. Still, as the Measure, in the opinion of
Mr Donaldson, is not lost, but destined to a speedy consumma-
tion, so far as the action of the United States can affect it, the
Undersigned trusts that the doubts and disappointments experi-
enced by the people of Texas, necessarily occasioned by the cir-
cumstances alluded to, will not have ripened into a general and
insurmountable opposition to the Measure, before the consum-
mation so confidently anticipated by Mr Donaldson.
The undersigned is instructed by the President to express his
unqualified admiration of the elevated spirit of philantropy per-
vading the communication of Mr Donaldson; and of the active
friendship. manifested by the President of the United States to-
wards this Government, in his solemn protest and measures of
opposition against the barbarous mode in which Mexico has avowed
her intention to, prosecute the war upon Texas.
The Undersigned avails himself, etc. etc. etc.
Signed Ebenr Allen.
The preceding Note.-important in respect both to its date
and its substance, forms part of the Correspondence between the
Secretary of State of Texas and Major Donaldson United States'
Charge d' Affaires, published by the Executive, in compliance
with a Resolution of the Senate of the Congress of Texas, dated
20th January 1845.
I have been informed that Major Donaldson has been em-
powered to arrange a Treaty of Annexation with the Texan Gov-
ernment, on terms more favourable to this Country than the con-
ditions proposed by the Congress of the United States.-Care
has been taken to identify the interests of leading men in Texas
with the success of Annexation, and active agents, are employed
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