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Mexican action on the commercial treaty was expected and it was
desired to have the Senate act on the two together, and this
expectation ha.d been disappointed. It would be necessary still
to submit the treaty to the Senate to be acted on again, and he
promised that it should be submitted at the next session In the
meantime he hoped the Mexican ratifications of the commercial
treaty would arrive so, the two could be submitted to the Senate
together.88 Again the exchange was delayed, this time for the
most of a year. But before this time was gone the new adminis-
tration had determined to try its hand at negotiating a new treaty
of limits which should supersede the other and give Texas to the
United States.
Early in March of 1829 in reviewing at length, for the informa-
tion of the new administration, the whole of his diplomatic activi-
ties and difficulties in Mexico, Poinsett discussed very briefly the
boundary negotiotions;8 again in July he reviewed his negotia-
tions for the treaties, tracing those for the treaty of limits to the
conclusion of the pending treaty a year and a half earlier, and
concluded by declaring: "I am still convinced that we never can
expect to extend our boundary south of the river Sabine, without
quarreling with these people, and driving them to court a more
strict alliance with some European power.'"0 This renewed asser-
tion of Poinsctt's belief that it would never be possible to secure
Texas peaceably did not reach the Department of State until nearly
a month after the new administration had matured its project for
the acquisition of Texas and despatched instructions for the pur-
pose. It is doubtful whether it would have affected the situation,
even had it arrived before the instructions were sent. rThe plan
seems to have developed slowly. Nearly six months of Jackson's
term was gone before it took shape. The earliest documentary
evidence of the growth of the plan ,which is preserved in the cor-
88Montoya to Van Buren, April 16, 1829, and Van Buren to Montoya,
April 22, 1829, H. Ex. Does., 25c., Is., No. 42, p. 49; B. and F. St. P.,
XXVI, 848.
"Poinsett to Sec. of St., March 10, 1829, MS. Dept. of St., Mex.,
Desp., IV.
ODPoinsett to Van Buren, July 22, 1829, MS. Dept. of St., Mex., Desp.,
IV; H. Ex. Doos., 25c., Is., No. 42, p. 29, prints a brief extract and the
rest is in Ibid., 2s., No. 351, p. 285. This was received at the Dept. of
St. Sept. 22.252
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