Identifier: cu31924014712271 (find matches)
Title: A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: McMaster, John Bach, 1852-1932
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormons
Publisher: New York, Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pany. Under this law the contract of Austin was formally ap-proved in February, 1823, and he was about to return to hiscolony when another revolution swept the Emperor from histhrone and restored the republic. During all these many revolts, uprisings, and revolutionsthe castle of San Juan dUlloa had remained in the hands ofSpain. Iturbide had attempted to secure the surrender of thecastle by treaty, and had gone to Jalapa for this purpose, whena quarrel arose between Santa Anna, who commanded thecity of Vera Cruz, and General Echavani, who commandedboth the city and the southern division of the empire in whichit lay. Santa Anna repaired to Jalapa to exculpate himself,but was rudely received and removed from command. Hurry-ing to Vera Cruz before the news of his dismissal was known,he paraded the troops, renounced allegiance to the Emperor, • Poinsetts Notes on Mexico, p. 63. J A league was equal to 4,428 acres, t A labor equalled 177 acres. Longitade gg West a from 30 WaehlBgtoii 19
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100 Longitttdc 99 Wert 88 from 97 Greenwich 96 1807-1815. GKBAT BRITAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE. 13 It was, in short, a state colonization law, and under it a hostof men who had long been seeking grants of land at last ob-tained their contracts, and the settlement of Texas by citizensof the United States began in serious earnest. * While citizens of the United States were thus plantingslave colonies in Texas, Great Britain was striving to enlistthe United States in an international effort to destroy theslave-trade. To break up this shameful traffic had long beenpart of British foreign policy. As early as 1807 f Parliamenthad absolutely forbidden it within the dominions of the BritishCrown, and from that day forward no treaty was made withany foreign power without an effort to bind the contractingparty to take some steps toward the suppression or at least thelimitation of the African slave-trade. Between 1810 and1814 she secured such treaties from Portugal, Denmark, andSweden; persuaded thcu31924014712271

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