The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917 Page: 81
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN32
No. 11. Galveston
March 7th. 1845.
My Lord,
I have the honour to enclose an Article extracted from the
"Texas National Register"33 understood to be the organ of the
Government upon the Scheme of Annexation proposed in the
Resolutions passed by the House of Representatives in the United
States
If the Government were in a situation to sustain this tone
by evidence that immediate settlement upon the basis of the
Independence of the Country (or at all events a state of peace
and security) was beyond a. doubt, I think these Resolutions
would find little favour in this Country. But Her Majesty's
Government will conceive that in the absence of definite and
satisfactory assurances of a steady settlement as respects Mexico,
it will always be easy for the Government of the United States
to maintain a state of expectation in this Country.
Entertaining little doubt that some measure calculated to pro-
duce that effect will pass through the Legislature of the United
States, probably powerfully supported by a strong tone on the
part of the new President in his inaugural address, I certainly
see reason to question the readiness of this people at once gen-
erally and cordially to sustain the Government in the sense of
this Article
If however any overtures should be made by Mexico or from
their quarters of a conclusive nature, the people would no doubt
be more induced to abandon all further thought of Annexation
than they would have been if these resolutions had been less
hard and injurious than they certainly are.
Charles Elliot.
To The Right Honourable
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
P. S. March 9-1845
Since the above was written another Article has appeared in
the "Texas National Register" of the 1st. Inst., adverse to the
8F. 0., Texas, Vol. 13.
"8For February 22, 1845.
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