John Tyler: “We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.”

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

I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.

Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to avoid the consummation of an act esteemed to be so desirable by both.

I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude.