Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-03-12
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GrS HAMILroS- We publish to-day communca-
t,on from the pen Of Gen Hamilton, which we doubt
not will be read with interest. THIS gentleman has
lone been engaged in the service OF our Republic and
il is but due hun that fair and full exposition oil the
events connected with his mission should be made For
more than four wears he has been abornG TO relieve our
Republic from pecuniary em5arrassments with an m
dustry unrng, and zeal that seemed 10 increase with
opposition and difficulties. He has neglected home,
and made himself it voluntary exile from his
native land, accomplish this great object OF his &C.
sire Had he been successful 4 nations gratitude
would have been his reward; and thousands who now
view his efforts with indifference, would have been
loudly trumpetng his praises. lie has been unsuc
cessfu and the ordinary attendants OF misfortune ga
Their around him. In his emphatic language he
"returns to neglected family ard fortune greatly lni
paired in the service of oar Republic Although he
has not succeeded filing public Golfers with TO-
reign gold and thus given our infant Republic the adj
vantages capital, he has done much that viii pro-
mote ts prosperity Through his instrumentay chief
w. the British, French and Belgian Governmen have
been induced TO recognise National Independence,
and 10 open conmercia intercourse that VIII eventu-
aly prove Of ncaculable advantage to the Republic.
The forts he has made, Guse accurate iniorma.
ton relative this country throughout Europe have
been so far successful that general spirit at emgra-
ton has arisen in several OF the most pop"lous King
doms Of that continent, and is not improbable that
larger number of Europeans will within few years be
consequence
whole population oil the Republic amounted To when
his commission commenced. Nor is it unreasonable
TO suppose that the value OF the products al, the IN
dus,rv OF these euErlntS Will, al period MT dis
tan, exceed the foil amount of the desired loan
Let US not then withhold the need OF gratitude that
10 due.
EUROPEAN EMiGRASTs- Arrangements in pro-
gress in France, England aud Germany, for the emf
grafton OF large numbers Of families from those coun-
tries to Texas A contract has lately been made at
Ir.,l tns Of
fifteen hundred families upon the Upper Colorado and
similar contract has been made with government by
French gentleman, for the settlement vi several nun
bred families upon the Rio GranGc, the mouth oil
the Puerco We have been assured by MIR. Castro,
that great enthusiasm prevails in France aud in Sc
yeral of the German provinces relative to this sub
iect and thousands Of thrifty farmers in those coun
tries preparing to emigrate to Texas We may
therefore confidently expect that in few years
ports will lie thronged with adventurous emgrants
,rom Europe, and the desert portions OF our
Republic will ring with their busy songs of INDUS
try We rejoice to find that the current OF European
emigration is thus turning towards Republic Al
though We have been opposed 10 the passage of
colonization laws similar TO the Franco Texienne Bill
and which could any manner afford prete1t for
foreign government to interfere with our domestic in
stitutlons have been DESTROYS that the govern
inen should afford encouragement TO the introduction
of honest and industrious foreigners Of any county
i,r the wealth of our Republic consists in the industry
Of its population; and whatever tends 10 augment that
population, tends To The advancement oil the national
prosperity.
TO TIlE People OF -TEX4s
As few Of my dispatches with the late, and none
with the present, Administration of your Government
have been published, and, by the repeal Of the Loan
Acts my official connexion with this measure has ter
minated have deemed II due TO myself 10 present
brief narrative of the circumstances not only attending
the financial negotiations IN which | have been en-
gagged but likewise of those associated with the dplO
matte commission have held for the last two years for
your Government abroad.
In the of 1899, my associate, MIR. Burnly, and
myself embar for Europe, under commission which
the late President Lamar had issued TO Loan Com
missoners, in the preceding March. In consequence
of several defects in the Loan Acts, under the
necessity of returning to attend the Session of Con-
gress in December $50, and of obtaining certain
,iatory laws In the month of May, 1870 We again
met IN England having previously obtained for your
Military, Naval, and Diplomatic service, an advance
from the Bank of the United States advantageous
Terms We met not only under the most uniavorable
financial but adverse international circumstances,
necteG not alone with moned regulations, but with
the character and relations Of Texas in Europe Ii is
that Texas had been recognized BY the king Of the
French: but we very soon aScertainad that without
that of England, the Netherlands and egium was also
procured, efforts altogether hopeless We
found arrival in London, the celebrated Abolition
Convention, which has been called the 'sWorlds Con-
vention" in session. Texas, and her institutions and
character, were made prominently the theme OF the
~ became manifest of procuring no! onv the recogni
ions in question, but likewise of disabusing the pub
lie mind, through the public press, of the thousand
FLANDERS which had been uttered aud published to
her prejudice The necessary means and efforts were
successfully employed 10 accomplish the last and,
on the first OF these objects, lett England IN July,
1870 for Holland. On arrival al Amsterdam
two of the first BANKERS ha, City made the procure.
lnent of the recognition OF the King OF The Netherlands
as Il sils qua 10 their considering my propo.
sails Tor 4 contract Tor the million loan. repaired
Ia the Hague, and after The unremtnt labor aud ct-
tendance that Court of three months in the face o.
the strongest popular prejudces agans, Texas, sue.
r,eded in the autumn Of 1870 and signed Treaty of
Recognition and Commerce with the Minister of Fo.
reign Affairs OF the King of the Netherlands the rati
6calion Of which exchanged IN June last MIR. Born
" having, in the time, passed over TO PARIS 10
open, If practicable financial negotiation IN France
A The Dutch Bankers required likewise recognition
by Great Britain, and had previously ascertained
by legal opinion OF the Solicitor of the Bank OF Eng
land, that the recognition of her Britannia Majesty was
essential 10 creating any valid contract under the
Loan returned to London in October, and commenced
a strenuous negotiation with Lord Palmerson, who
N ,espi,e of the efforts Of those connected with the
interests of Mexico the iana,icsm OF the Abo
tc sis tad the isdom and courage TO conclude three