The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, July 1913 - April, 1914 Page: 308
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308 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
has been supposed to be favored by the Government of Her
Majesty, and that of the King of the French; and lastly that if
General Santa Afia be brought to act upon a material suggestion
of Your Lordship's despatch 1st July to Mr. Doyle, this ques-
tion will at once become one of great importance in the Affairs
of this Continent.
Your Lordship is no doubt aware that there is considerable and
growing uneasiness upon this subject throughout the South West-
ern part of the Union, and the reports which reach us here
through the press of the United States and other sources are
noticeable because of the evidence they afford of that state of dis-
quietude. We hear of the rights of Louisiana to all the territory
as far West as the "Nuecas," of the determination of the people
of that State to assert those rights for themselves if the General
Government does not otherwise effectually interpose for the break-
ing up, of any arrangement menacing, in their view, the stability
of their Slave Institutions, of the renewal of General Jackson's
negotiations for the purchase of Texas, and a variety of other
rumours of the like nature.
It is commonly said here too, that the Conversation of the new
Charge d' Affaires from the United States, near this Government,
(General Murphy), is unreservedly hostile to a settlement of the
difficulties under any other auspices than those of his own Gov-
ernment, and I learn that at a late festive meeting he addressed
a large assembly as his "Fellow Citizens." I take the liberty of
mentioning this incident to Your Lordship, and [not?] that I
attach much importance to it, for if His Government had any
immediate purposes in view, this Gentleman would probably have
been more circumspect than he seems to have been; but it causes
a state of general feeling which I have thought it right to place
under Your Lordship's attention. Indeed I would wish to men-
tion that whilst it is my conviction that nothing can be more set-
tled than the disinclination of a large part of the people of the
United States to any adjustment of the affairs of Texas and di-
rectly carried out by their own Government and [not?] in what
they understand to be their interests, it is equally my habit to
receive the details of any reported project with the utmost reserve,
and I certainly have had no means of forming any safe opinion
as to the manner of interference in these concerns.
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