Much in these issues about Texas, Mexico, and relations to U.S. One item in this issue, for instance, includes quotes from General Houston’s letter to General Dunlap, of Nashville. This…
Category: <span>Texas Annexation</span>
Report of a very full meeting of people at the Hall, Jan 25, meeting chaired by Francis Jackson. (The magazine at this time and for weeks before has contained a…
Notice of action by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in London, which takes a strong action to “enter a solemn protest against the recognition of the independence of Texas…
January 27, 1843 An item from the Lexington Baptist Pioneer, is titled, “Spirit of Texas”. It is from a clergyman who “represents Texas”, who writes to the editor of the Commercial…
December 1, 1843 “Nothing can more signally demonstrate the absolute mastery of the slaveholding power over the nation – its utter disregard of all constitutional provisions and legal proceedings — than the…
June 7, 1844 Under Refuge of Oppression is a petition signed by almost one hundred people, urging the annexation of Texas. It comes from the Worcester Spy, and is addressed…
December 20, 1844 Here are petitions to the Senate and House of the Commonwealth, and to the Congress of the United States, against the annexation of Texas.
July 11, 1845 IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS! ANNEXATION SETTLED “Both houses of the Texas Congress have declared unanimously for the annexation. “It is said that the prospect of the annexation of…
July 18, 1845 “We, the undersigned, hereby solemnly pledge ourselves not to countenance or aid the United States Government in any war which may be occasioned by the annexation of…
July 18, 1845 “We, the undersigned, hereby solemnly pledge ourselves not to countenance or aid the United States Government in any war which may be occasioned by the annexation of…
July 25, 1845 Here is an item telling of the movement of ten companies of the 3d U.S. Infantry, with 500 men, who “In a short time will be on…
Sept 26, 1845 Citizens of St. Clair County, Illinois, pass a resolution, unanimously adopted, urging the President to purchase Cuba, “with the consent of the white people thereof”. “The slaveholders…
November 7, 1845 Here is a quotation from a recent message to the legislature of Tennessee by its Gov. Aaron Vail Brown. It praises the annexation of Texas in glowing…
November 7, 1845 Here is a quotation from a recent message to the legislature of Tennessee by its Gov. Aaron Vail Brown. It praises the annexation of Texas in glowing…