TEXAS S·TATE LIBRARY
now for killing off republicanism) and Houston would have taken any new confederacy under his special protection. Elliott foresaw this, and joined Houston in urging England to manage, but the ministry were taking care of Prince Albert's horses and children and had no money to SP,are for peasant education at home, or the protection of their cotton worker's interest abroad. Even such a trifle as obtaining the liberty of the Texian prisoners in :Mexico, so easy of attainment by the British l\Iinisters, was neglected because it pleased Gen. Houston just then to say they deserved their fate, and the United States had an opportunity of proving their greater love for Texians by laboring incessantly for their release, until it was accomplished. England ex- pected every thing for nothing, that being the condition upon which she trades with weak states; but she let the golden opportunity of winning Texas pass unimproved, and ought not to impute too much blame to three agents who could not prevent the destinies of Texas being decided by the well weighed decision of united republican citi- zens, instead of a pliant and king-loving Executive. Justice to Elliott, Houston and Jones !
No. 2197. "TEXAS." ANONYMOUS
[Newspaper Clipping] [October? 1845] Texas is conning over her list of bright names wherefrom to choose her representatiYes in Congress. Lamar, Archer and Rusk, are still spoken of for the Senate, and it is almost certain that two of these gentlemen will be chosen. No Texians have done so much for annex- ation as Lamar and his friends, and on that account he will be par- ticularly acceptable and have great personal influence in Congress, though the claims of both the other gentlemen are of weight. Mr. Van Zandt and 1\Ir. Kauphman, both men of the highest ability, are spoken of in Eastern Texas, and Generals Green and Cazneau, (equally sterling characters,) in Western Texas, for the lower house. 2.Ir. Kauphman, as it strikes us, has been rather victimised by Presi- dent Jones, who sent him here as Charge to get him out of the way and at the same time embarrass :Mr. Polk. It was exceedingly silly and unpardonably rude to our government to send a minister while annexation was pending, to say nothing of burthening the Star State with an absolutely useless expense. The idea was to trick our Execu- tive into treating Texas as a foreign government, and thus enable Dr. Jones to say the United States did not consider annexation a settled thing. He could not make much capital out of it any way, but he has been foiled altogether, for J\Ir. Polk will not consider Texas out of the family and therefore has no need of making foreign relations with her. It certainly gave the Texian President an air of great ver- dancy, (besides placing Mr. Kauphman in' a false position,) to drain the treasury for a mission here, while a convention for proposing a Sta.te consitution was assembling at Austin. It looked as if the un- sophisticated gentleman had not learned the difference between repre- sentatives at court and representatives in Congress. It is the latter we wish to receive from the Lone Star.
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