This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...and the vacant lands had been ceded, the new State should be admitted into the Union without further action. J Thus amended, the joint resolution Benton, Abridgment, vol. xv., p. 197; McMaster, vol. viL, pp. 31)2-395; Carpenter, The American Advance, pp. 163-164; Schouler, United States, vol. iv., p. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...and the vacant lands had been ceded, the new State should be admitted into the Union without further action. J Thus amended, the joint resolution Benton, Abridgment, vol. xv., p. 197; McMaster, vol. viL, pp. 31)2-395; Carpenter, The American Advance, pp. 163-164; Schouler, United States, vol. iv., p. 485. t Senate Doc. 79, 28th Congress. 2d session; Siles' Register, vol. lxvii., pp. 378-383. t Benton, Abridgment, vol. xv.. p. 225. Benton (Thirty Years' View, vol. ii., pp. 636-638) affirms that he and his fellow Senators were assured both directly and indirectly that the President-elect would take the option of treaty negotiation. This is denied, however, in Letters and Times of the Tylers, vol. ii., pp. 405, 409. passed the Senate, without a division, on the 27th, the vote on the third reading being 27 to 25. It was then sent back to the House, where, after futile attempts were made to prevent a vote, the Senate amendment was con curred in on the 28th, by a vote of 132 to 76, ! and on March 1 the joint resolution was signed by the President. % On March 3, two days after Tyler signed the joint resolution, a messenger was sent to Nashville with a dispatch for Andrew Jackson Donelson, the charge to Texas, and also a letter from Calhoun stating that President Tyler had chosen to act under the House resolution rather than the Senate amendment, and directed him to proceed at once to Texas. This was all Tyler had time to do, for the next day his term of office ended and Polk assumed the Presidency. Benton, Abridgment, vol. xv., p. 229. Schouler, United States, vol. iv., p. 486. t Benton, Abridgment, vol. xv., p. 231. t For text see United States Statutes-at-Large, vol. v., pp. 797-798; Thorpe, Federal and State Constitutions, vol. vi., pp...
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