The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, July 1912 - April, 1913 Page: 204
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starve and die. I am sure it would be a wise and a right course
to put forward some authoritative recommendation to the Queen's
Subjects to direct their Emigration to parts of the British Domin-
ions, or at all events not to entirely new Countries on this Con-
tinent.
Whenever the born British Emigrant comes into contact with
the American or frontier Stations, you find the first squalid, poor
and a Wreck, and the last making way chiefly upon the, Capital
which the others have brought with them.
With my excuses for this long letter and small amount of in-
formation
Charles Elliot.
H. U. Addington, Esqr.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN1
Private. Galveston March 29th. 1843.
My Lord,
The delay of the Steam boat for a few hours enables me to
transmit to Your Lordship the accompanying Statement of intel-
ligence from Mexico received here two days since, via New Or-
leans.2 I entertain no doubt of the genuineness of their proposals,
but am necessarily without any means of forming an opinion upon
the purposes or situation of the Mexican Government in relation
to them
Upon the face of them, however, it is hard to think that Gen-
eral Santa Afia can entertain a serious hope or wish that they
should be accepted in their present form. Their effect would be
to leave this Country virtually independent of Mexico, with abund-
ance of pretext for further disturbance and pretentions West of
the Rio Grande, as soon as Texas is well strengthened, and Mexico
still further enfeebled by unsuitable institutions, and that state
of intestine trouble, which appears to be almost the usual condi-
tion of the Country.
Indeed it seems to me to be quite unintelligible that this project
1F. O., Texas, Vol. 6.
2An unidentified newspaper cutting referring to the proposal of a nego-
tiation for peace, made by Santa Anna through James W. Robinson, a
released prisoner.204
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