THE AUSTIN PAPERS 425 greatly magnified, and construed by some into disobedience, or a wish to be disobedient etc, etc,-To these matters, have also been superadded reports, that the present representative of the U. S. Govt to Mexico, was sent especially to purchase, Texas from Guerrero, while he had Dictatorial powers, and was under the control of Zavala, who it is known was under that of Poinsett-The tvme when this offer is said to have been made is also noticed, that is when the nation was pressed for money, and in distress owing to the spanish invasion, internal divisions etc. etc. Perhaps I hazard nothing in saying that causes may be discovered in this train of circumstances, in connection with others, which would have roused the suspicions of any people, and more particularly when it is remembered that the north is a giant, and :Mexico a new and not firmly organised Govt. and also that the U. S. have silently, as it were, extended their dominion over the ~ast regions of Louisiana, Missouri, Ore- gon etc. I give you this detail in order that you ·may form some idea of the apparent causes, of the change as regards Colonization in Texas- Some on the other hand·say that it proceeds from British influence or from a desire to exclude foreigners and liberal prin- ciples, as a stepping stone to the establishment of a central republic, and aristocracy, or a monarchy. The free admission however of all other foreigners, into Texas except North.•American, and of the latter every where else in the nation seems to contradict this idea. 1- Queries: will not the true prosperity and happiness of Texas be more effectually promoted by a Swiss, French, German, and English, population, than by an American one 1 nature seems to have intended Texas for a vineyard to supply America with wine.- 2-- Is not Slavery a curse which must lead to the total ruin and butchery of all southern slave countries, and is it not the duty of the Mexican Govt. and the true interest of every citizen of·Texas to keep this country clear of it- A few years more and :Mexico will be the only .resting place left for·the whites South of Illinois, unless the blacks are exterminated by a gene1'al massacre by the Whites; and afterwards excluded from being brought into the country- In a century more either the whites, or the blacks must cease to exist in the southern States, or they must intermarry and all be placed on an equality.- • 3-Is it not rather unkind in the U. S. to try to extend its vast nnd unwieldy frame oYer u pnrt of the territory of its neighbor 1 and is it not impolitic and dangerous even to the integrity of that nation to enlarge its limits any farther-~ 4--- Will not Texas be equally prosperous as a State of the Mexican confederation 1 88370-28---28
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