The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, July 1913 - April, 1914 Page: 309
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
I am of course sensible that much that is said and written in
the United States on the subject deserves no attention, but I be-
lieve that I have made no mistake as to the real state of feeling
in respect to it, and I have considered it proper at this conjuncture
to repeat the impression.
It is to be supposed that this uneasy treatment of the acknowl-
edgment of the Independence of Texas by Mexico upon liberal
arrangements with respect to the Slave population, must help to
satisfy Genl Santa Aiia of the soundness of that course for the
strength and safety of his own Country. And if he bases his
policy upon that condition, granting an amply sufficient period to
this Government for deliberation, and liberal limiting proposals,
(for it will need both time, and favorable concomitant terms to
prepare the people to adopt such a combination) I believe he will
succeed in accomplishing a signal political triumph, lastingly hon-
orable to his fame both as a Statesman, and a benefactor of Man-
kind.
One great practical advantage of the proposal of Mexico to
acknowledge the Independence of Texas upon the condition to
which Your Lordship has adverted, would be the indisposition of
the Slave holders of the United States to bring any more of their
people into this Country with the prospect of that conclusion be-
fore them, or with the prospect of a renewal of hostilities upon
such a ground, if Texas refused such a condition. It is a very
material consideration in this subject, that the Cotton growing
capabilities of Texas are superior to those of the United States;
and if the principle of free labor can be established here, what
with the opportunity of procuring labor from Mexico, and by im-
migration from other quarters, and the increasing supply and im-
provement of the Staple from India, there would be very soon an
end of the remunerative production of Cotton by Slave labor in
the United States.
The supply from Texas this year will amount to nearly 100,000
Bales (a considerable portion of it the produce of free labor) and
if peace can be secured upon the terms Your Lordship has sug-
gested, I entertain no doubt whatever that the Supply from Texas
will exceed a Million of bales within 10 years from the date of
such an arrangement. That supply must be exchanged chiefly
against British Manufactures; And unless the tariffs of the309
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