...isolated question of annexation, and in that form it has been submitted to the ordeal of public sentiment. A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. Instructions have thus come up to both branches of...

...isolated question of annexation, and in that form it has been submitted to the ordeal of public sentiment. A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. Instructions have thus come up to both branches of...

...annual message of December, 1844, President Tyler stoutly asserted that, through the late presidential election, " a controlling majority of the people and...majority of the States " had declared in favor of the immediate annexation of Texas, and that both branches of Congress had thus been instructed by their...

...only asserted the contrary, but declared that both Houses of Congress had been instructed, — by u a controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the States," — " in terms the most emphatic," to accomplish annexation immediately, and he therefore recommended...

...election just ended the question had been presented nakedly to the States and to the people for decision. A controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the States, had declared for annexation. It was the will of the people and the States that Texas be acquired at once. Tyler...

...been presented nakedly to the „ Gerr:ates and to the people for decision. A controlling majori/f&y of the people, and a large majority of the States, had Declared for annexation. It was the will of the people and e States that Texas be acquired at once. Tyler therefore...

...isolated question of annexation; and in that form it has been submitted to the ordeal of public sentiment. A controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the states, have declared in favor of immediate annexation. Instructions have thus come up to both branches of...

...had declared, as clearly as a national election can declare, in favor of the re-annexation of Texas. "A controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the States," said President Tyler, in his last annual message to Congress,2 "have declared in favor of immediate...

...annexation of Texas would mean the annexation of a war. In his last message President Tyler said that "a controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States " had voted for annexation, and that Congress had been instructed to that effect. It is doubtful whether...

...isolated question of annexation; and in that form it has been presented to the ordeal of public sentiment. A controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the states, have declared in favor of immediate annexation. Instructions have thus come up to both branches of...