The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, July 1914 - April, 1915 Page: 413
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
favour of the Annexation of Texas to the United States, their
Mission might have proved successful. Occupying the position of
thwarted Negotiators, it was natural that they should signify their
dissatisfaction with a Measure which virtually divested them of
their delegated functions and nullified their endeavours. As was
to be expected then they have taken occasion to pronounce an
unfavourable opinion of the project of Annexation, more especially
the Military Commissioner, Colonel Hockley, whose late Colleague
being engaged in Mercantile pursuits, is, therefore, it has been
intimated, reluctant to commit himself openly to what the Mass
of the population would probably consider an objectionable course.
From the free avowals attributed, and I have reason to believe
with justice, to Colonel Hockley, it would appear that the ex-
Commissioners do not intend to limit their opposition to Annexa-
tion to the mere expression of opinion. On the presumption that
the Treaty of Annexation may receive the approval of the United
States' Congress, they have (I am taught to believe) meditated,
and are meditating, the organization of a party, to make a stand
against that Measure, even (so at least, the language ascribed
to Colonel Hockley seemed to indicate) to the point of armed re-
sistance. In support of the general design, Colonel Hockley and
one or two of his fellow-Countrymen and friends alleged that they
have the Countenance and Counsel of the now absent representa-
tives of Great Britain and France, from the former of whom Mr
Williams, it is asserted, received encouraging Communications by
the Steam-boat "New York," which arrived at Galveston, from
New Orleans on the 11th Instant. These Communications, together
with others superscribed "Private" and addressed to President
Houston, were, it is said, recently despatched from Natchez on
the Mississtppi by Captain Elliot, who-had I not been otherwise
instructed by Your Lordship's letter to Mr Macdougall of the
18th April, and Captain Elliot's letter to myself, of the 20th May,
-I might be led to infer was still sojourning at, or near to, that
locality.
When the Matter under review was first opened to me, in the
guise of intelligence, M. de Saligny, Charg6 d' Affaires of France,
and Colonel Hockley were described as the parties to an arrange-
ment, under which the opponents of Annexation, when properly413
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