In the meantime, rely on it we have

nothing to expect from the continued

offer of British mediation to Mexico

on its present basis.

As little have we to expect from

the good offices of France, although sin-

cerely and faithfully employed, so long

as they are separately exerted as at the

present time.

The independence of Texas and the

existence of Slavery in Texas, is a question

of life or death to the slave holding states

of the American Union. Hemmed in bet-

ween the free States on their northern

border, and a free Anglo Saxon State

on their Southern border & sustained

by England, their history would soon

be written.

The Establishment of a free state on

the territory of Texas is a darling wish of

England for which scarcely any price would be

regarded as to[o] great. The bargain once

struck what remedy remains to the South?

France and the United States

might conjointly decide at once the

affairs of Texas and Mexico without

the concurrence of England.

The generous promptness with which

France acceded to the former