John Tyler actually said...

Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents the people of all the States, and a love of the Union, left the Executive no other alternative than to negotiate the treaty.

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Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty of Annexation Concluded Between the United States of America and the Republic of...

04/21/1844

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