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 ...

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...

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