The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918 Page: 189
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
ELLIOT TO ABERDEENa
No. 15. Galveston.
Feby. 16th. 1846.
My Lord,
The Government of this Republic will be dissolved this day, and
suffering from a recent attack of indisposition I shall take the lib-
erty to proceed to New Orleans for change of air, and wait there
for my next instructions from Her Majesty's Government unless
any thing should transpire in the mean time requiring my return
to this place.
Charles Elliot.
To The Right Honourable
The Earl of Aberdeen, K. T.
ELLIOT TO ABERDEEN'
No. 16. Galveston.
February. 16th 1846.
My Lord,
Before the dissolution of this Government I think it may be
convenient to submit some remarks to Your Lordship on an error
which has been prevalent in this Country and in the United States
respecting the late negotiations between Mexico and Texas.
In the United States especially it has been generally supposed
that it was Mexico which proposed to Texas to acknowledge her
independence on the condition that Texas should not Annex her-
self to that Country in particular, and it was urged that Texas
could not have accepted that condition without discredit. Her
Majesty's Government are aware that this is a complete mistake
in point of fact and form. It was the Government of Texas which
proposed, not Mexico, and the proposed condition did not mention
the United States. The language was general, and the French
Minister at Mexico particularly remarked that that circumstance
was important, for a stipulation so shaped could give no just
offence in any quarter.
Texas had a right to maintain her separate existence, and it
will be admitted that such a course would have been in accordance
'F. O., Texas, Vol. 16.
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