The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917 Page: 192
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Texas will no doubt reach Her Majesty's Government from Wash-
ington before this despatch can arrive in England.
It would be erroneous to suppose that the unanimity of the
Vote in the Texian Congress is decisive of the real feeling of the
whole people of that Country. On the contrary, these scrambling
and hurried proceedings in this grave affair afford reason to
think that discussion was considered dangerous, and the acqui-
escence of persons in that body well known to be adverse to An-
nexation is only evidence that they were borne down by the ap-
prehension of Violence, or at least by a sense that it was hopeless
openly to resist the unscrupulous management and misrepre-
sentation in operation at this moment.
Her Majesty's Government will find in these proceedings of
Congress, and the official Correspondence herewith transmitted
remarkable proof of the extent to which the people have been
deceived and worked upon both in the United States and in
Texas. So far as it has yet gone however this Measure is no doubt
an immense triumph to the great Slave Trade interests of this
Country.
Men, Women, and Children, My Lord, have risen in value at
least 30 per Cent since this scheme was proposed by Mr Tyler
in 1844; And the Annexation of Texas which some of the States-
men of this Country have ventured to actuate in the phrase
that it would constitute an "Exodus" for their Slave population
signifies in the plainer speech, and, more reverent use of terms
applicable to this painful transaction, that they have robbed a
Market from a weak and peaceful neighbour where Slavery had
no legal existence for the disposal and consumption of their sur-
plus human produce. Their avowed purpose is that the Slaves
are to be worked off in Texas till Slavery can no longer be turned
to profitable account, and then that the wreck of the race is to
be driven forth into the Mexican Provinces, to mix themselves
with the inhabitants of those Countries.
But turning from this extravagance, I take the liberty to
offer the opinion that the triumph these parties have achieved
will be found to be insubstantial and transitory. Misrepresenta-
tion and political intrigue, and disease and sordid Motives of
all kinds are of no texture to withstand the right feeling, and
sober purposes of the great body of this people on this subject192
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917, periodical, 1917; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101070/m1/198/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.