The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 18, July 1914 - April, 1915 Page: 213
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas 213
resorting to a general indisposition to adjust with Texas upon peace-
ftIl and honorable terms, as the ground of the continued detention
of these unhappy men.
The temporary interruption of the Official intercourse between
Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Mexico and that Government
is noticed by Mr Jones as another event of a discouraging charac-
ter. The Undersigned can only say upon that point that lie is sure
Hler Majesty's Government would not have delayed 'to Communi-
caie their apprehensions to the same effect to the Government of
Texas if they had participated in them for a moment.
Weighing all the circumstances of the case as carefully as he
can, the Undersigned will take the liberty here to express the
belief, that at no period of the interposition of HTer Majesty's Gov-
ernmcnt for the settlement of the dispute between Texas and Mex-
ice could it ever have appeared to them that there were better
founded hopes of an early and honorable adjustment than at the
moment, when, as Mr Jones observes, the door 'to Annexation was
unexpectedly opened to the people of this Country. The approach
in that sense was most probably unexpected in Mexico too, for it
came when there was a state of known truce between the parties,
when Texian Commissioners respectfully received, were actually
in the Mexican territory, and whilst Negotiations, first for an
armistice, and then for a peace, were known to be in contemplation,
and in point of fact in progress.
The intimation of such a. proposal to the Government of Texas
by the Government of the United States would of course become
known in Mexico about the same time, and made under the state of
circumstances then existing it can hardly be a source of surprize
that it produced the disturbing effect which has followed.
The Undersigned thinks he should not discharge his duty if he
c.mitted to express the earnest hope that the Government and
people of Texas will not make the incalculably heavy sacrifice of
their separate National existence under the impression that the
prospect of amicable settlement with Mexico has passed away. He
believes there is no good ground for such an impression, and he
is also of opinion that it is still in the power of the Government
of Texas to renew the Negotiations with Mexico upon a hopeful
b;, is by reassuring that; Government upon a point on which it is
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