Special Message
12/17/1844
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Texas had entered into the treaty of annexation upon the invitation of the Executive, and when for that act she was thre...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to th...