John Tyler said...

By adopting that measure the United States will be in the exercise of an undoubted right.

I have great pleasure in submitting to the Senate, for its ratification and approval, a treaty which has been concluded ...

The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.

Texas had entered into the treaty of annexation upon the invitation of the Executive, and when for that act she was thre...