CHAPTER IV
[1]Considerant, European Colonization in Texas, An Address to the American People, New York, 1855, 4-6; Du Texas, 5-6.
[2]Considerant, European Colonization in Texas, 5.
[3]Ibid., 6-7.
[4]Ibid., 6-16.
[5]Also quoted in Considerant, op. cit., 31.
[6]For Considerant’s reply see his pamphlet European Colonization in Texas; for editorial of Washington Sentinel, see Texas State Gazette, October 13, 1855; For the letters see ibid., June 2, 1855, October 13, 1855.
[7]Texas State Gazette, October 13, 1855.
[8]Letter from J. L. to Editors, dated at Washington, May 2, 1855, as quoted in Texas State Gazette, June 2, 1855.
[9]European Colonization in Texas.
[10]Ibid., 32.
[11]Austin State Gazette, Aug. 11, 1855; Compare this article with the one written in the issue of September 22, 1855, wherein those who had suffered from persecution were advised to, “Come to the gallant West, where freedom is as expansive as the prairie, and as generous as the soil. Come to the West and let the golden grain you raise be sent back to feed the men whose ruthless hands would, as did those of Cain of old, strike down the toiling tiller of the soil.”
[12]Texas State Times, August 4, 1855.
[13]Ibid.
[14]Ibid.
[15]Ibid.; For opposition to other foreigners in Texas see Texas State Times, June 16, 1855, and also June 21, 1855.
[16]August 14, 1855.
[17]As quoted in The Standard, February 24, 1855.
[18]August 25, 1855.
[19]Texas State Gazette, October 13, 1855.
[20]Ibid.
[21]Albert Brisbane, Social Destiny of Man; or Associations and Reorganization of Industry, ix, especially pps. 101-102.
[22]Considerant, European Colonization in Texas, 35-38.
[23]Texas State Gazette, August 11, 1855.
[24]Savardan, Un Naufrage au Texas, specifically states that the legislators would have no neutrality but actual participation favorable to the slavery question.
[25]New York Tribune as quoted in the Texas Sun, November 17, 1855.
[26]The petition is entitled “A petition to the Honorable, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Texas,” and is in the Library of the University of Texas. Search of the state archives was made for the original document, with other information which Considerant referred to in the petition, but was not found, due to the fact that the records were not systematically filed at the time of the search.
[27]Considerant, European Colonization in Texas, 4ff. states his attitude toward this opposition and the reasons for his application.
[28]Extract from a letter to his Excellency the Governor of Texas, as quoted in “A Petition to the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Texas,” 5.
[29]Dallas Herald, August 16, 1856.
[30]State Gazette Appendix, Austin, No. 79, Sixth Legislature, Adj. Sess. 205.
[31]House Journal, 1856, 566, and Austin Gazette, Appendix, No. 70, 205.
[32]Senate Journal, 1856, 340-341.
[33]Ibid., 341.
[34]Ibid., Adj. Session, 394.
[35]Senate Journal, 1856, 412.