British Interests And Activities in Texas 1838 1846
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137. THE LONDON ABOLITION MEETING. 149 be carried through, but that it must be put into im- mediate operation. He wrote to Aberdeen that the " proposal of Mexico to acknowledge the independence of Texas upon the condition to which your Lordship has adverted" would prevent any new slaves being brought in, and would quickly result in the extinction of slavery.^* He also dilated upon the great advan- tages to England. " If the principle of free labor can be established here, what with the opportun...ity of pro- curing labor from Mexico, and by immigration from other quarters, and the increasing supply and improve- ment of the staple from India, there would very soon be an end of the remunerative production of Cotton by Slave Labor in the United States. " With free labor would come free trade. Elliot felt that the American protective system was doomed to a speedy death, and the far-reaching effect of the suggested Mexican ultimatum for peace he could already see. Ten days later he wrote a long letter to Doyle, send- ing it by one of the Texan commissioners of armistice.
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