The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 140
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
able to enclose a translation of it, I do not think it necessary to
trouble you with any details upon the subject here."
The relations between Ward and Poinsett during the summer
of 1825, and after, would make an interesting study, and one for
which materials lie ready to the hand of the worker. In the man-
uscripts of the Foreign Office, are preserved the original letters
of the British agent, while the fourteen folio volumes of the papers
of Joel R. Poinsett which are in the Library of the Historical So-
ciety of Pennsylvania, have hardly been even touched. Yet in
these papers is to be found the detailed story of the struggle be-
tween British and American influence in Mexico. Both of the
competitors emerged from the contest with high opinions of the
abilities of their respective opponents.
During the struggle of 1825 the British agent became further
convinced of the inevitable conflict between Mexico and the United
States along the Rio Grande and his despatches are truer than
most historical prophecies.
"The treaty," he writes to Canning, on the 6th of September,
1825,1 "between the United States and this country, advances but
slowly, though I am at a loss to understand, in what the cause
of the delay consists . . . while the Mexicans are
jealous in guarding against encroachments in the shape of a treaty,
they are suffering, on the other hand, by an absurd mixture of
negligence, & weakness, the whole disputed territory, and an im-
mense tract of country beyond it, to be quietly taken possession of
by the very men, whose claim to it, they are resisting here:-you
will perceive Sir, by a reference to the Map, that the whole of the
lands between the rivers Sabine and Brazos, have been granted
away to American Settlers, and that the tide of emigration is
settling very fast in the direction of the Rio Bravo. These grants
have been made by the provincial Government of Texas, and re-
tailed by the Original speculators to the hordes of their country-
men, which have already arrived there, at a moderate price of half
a dollar an acre, by which however they have cleared 150 per cent
profit. On the most moderate computation, six hundred North
American families are already established in Texas; their numbers
1Ward to Canning, September 6, 1825, Foreign Office MSS., Mexico, XIV.140
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