15/17 Let us not argue over the unhappy business. Let me think of Mexico as our sister republic and our friend!" "And suppose I shall not do this that you ask, Senor ?" "That, my dear lady, _I do not suppose!_" "You threaten, Senor Secretary ?" "On the contrary, I implore! I ask you not to be treasonable to any, but to be our ally, our friend, in what in my soul I believe a great good for the peoples of the world. Without us, Texas will be the prey of England. With us, she will be working out her destiny. In our graveyard of state there are many secrets of which the public never knows. |