of the influence necessary to action in either country

should prevail. The rejection of the Treaty by

the Senate of the United States was calculated

to create the belief here that the measure had

been lost, and it was natural that this Govern-

ment acting for the best interests of the Republic

should be looking to the alternative measure

called for by the abandonment of all hope

of its incorporation in the American union.

To correct this erroneous influence, the undersigned

has been authorized to allude to the failure

of the Treaty as affording no evidence of the

abandonment of the measure by the Government

of the United States, and to the public sentiment

as developed by the canvass for the Presidency,

as justifying the confident belief already

expressed, that if the measure is to be defeated, it

will be for the want of the necessary support from

Texas herself.

In this state of the question, then, it cannot

be necessary for the undersigned to dwell upon

the anxiety of the Government that Texas

should maintain the position consistent with its ultimate

success. If the disappointment of her wishes

thus long has been productive of injury, as it

doubtless has, in retarding the settlement and