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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
Neither have I been without the hope that Your Lordship may
be disposed to remove me to some better position whenever that
can be done with convenience to the public interest.
Till then it must be unnecessary to say that my services are
at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government here or any where
else that Your Lordship may see fit to leave me, or to, send me.
Charles Elliot.
To The Right Honourable.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
Downing Street.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN19
No. 6. Galveston
February 15th. 1845.
My Lord,
Since I last had the honour of addressing Your Lordship the
Annexation resolutions adopted by the House of Representatives
in the United States have been received here.20
I certainly have no belief that they will pass through the Sen-
ate; But if they should, such is the humour here that it is prob-
able even these hard conditions would be accepted by a Majority
of the people of Texas. At the same time it is certain that the
tenour of the resolutions, is much below the expectations of the
friends of the Measure, and occasioning considerable disappoint-
ment in that quarter, they have naturally had the effect of en-
couraging the hopes of the party, favourable to Independence,
small as yet in point of numbers, but I think upon the whole
gaining strength and confidence.
It is beginning to be insisted both in the press, and amongst
the people with more of openness than I have hitherto remarked,
that it is more manifest than [that] Annexation cannot be
achieved on any terms that this Country ought to accept; that
"F. O., Texas, Vol. 13.
20The "Brown" resolutions passed the Unites States House of Repre-
sentatives on January 25,, offering to admit Texas as a state, without
further negotiation of an annexation treaty. Benton in the Senate intro-
duced a bill providing instead for a new negotiation. This was amended
'to permit the President to select either mode he preferred, and as amended,
passed the Senate on February 27, and the House on February 28. (Text
of the resolutions as joined, and approved by Tyler, in U. S. Does., Ser.
No. 470, Doc. 1, p. 34.)
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