[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.