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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Calhoun—Nullification explained. (search)
so easily settled if Captain Elliott, the man in the white hat, had been successful in the objects of his mission to Texas; that is to say, in securing Texas as a commercial dependency of Great Britain, in abolishing slavery in Texas, and in building up on our Southwestern border another Canada. (See speech of Senator Houston, Congres- sional Globe, second session Twenty-ninth Congress, p. 459; also, remarks of Lords Brougham and Aberdeen in House of Lords, in London Morning Chronicle, August 19, 1843.) But the Union haters of 1840-‘60, whose glasses Dr. von Holst now wears, could only see from one side of the shield, and, in their impatience to abolish slavery, desired to see established on our Southwestern border an asylum for runaway negroes and hostile Indians. Dr. von Holst himself declares that an independent Texas without slavery, and the permanent continuance of slavery in the Union were irreconcilable (p. 237). He is also forced to admit that as the Constitution was origi