...stated that the question of annexation had been submitted to the ordeal of public sentiment, and that a controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the states had declared in favour of immediate annexation. Acting on this hint, Senator Benton of Missouri promptly introduced...

...the annexation of Texas and recommended the passage of the original Treaty of Annexation. He said: A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. It is the will of the people aud the States that Texas...

...results gave him his opportunity. Like Polk, Tyler interpreted the election as a mandate for expansion. "A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation," Tyler told Congress in his last annual report to the...

...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...

...British and French interests in the republic and argued that the previous month's election showed that a "controlling majority of the people, and a large majority of the states, have declared in favor 'immediate annexation." Instead of following the usual path through the Senate,...

...portrayed the election as a plebiscite on the Texas issue. After Folk's victory, Tyler insisted that "a controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have decided in favor of immediate annexation," and that the issue had passed the "ordeal of public...

...1937), 366-75. 23. Fourth Annual Message, Richardson, A Compilation, 4:334, 344-45 (December 3, 1844): A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. . . . The two Governments having already agreed through...

...see Van Deusen, Clay at 366-75. 13. Fourth Annual Message, 4 Richardson at 334, 344-45 (Dec 3, 1844): A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. . . . The two Governments having already agreed through...

...polls as a mandate for annexation. In his fourth and final annual message, the president announced that a "controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation." "It is the will of both the people and the States,"...

...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...