it, within a reasonable period, on terms of justice and

honor to her citizens. He has not therefore felf that

it was proper to notice the objections which are

sometimes made to it as being a measure of

exclusive self-interest to the United States, because

this would imply a want of respect for the judgement

of the citizens of Texas who have so long and with

so much unanimity sustained it.

The undersigned looks at the question

of annexation as he believes it to be, one of

mutual, equal, and vital, benefit and safety

to both Republics; and that Texas is perceiving

its true character as such and with so much

more unanimity than has heretofore been

manifested by the United States, has only

availed herself of the better opportunity she has

enjoyed of testing the realities which sustain

the position. He knows that the United States

seek no aggrandizement by the acquistion of

Territory at the expense of the rights of other nations;

and that incorporation of Texas into their

Union as but a restoration of what should

never have been taken from it, since it is as

inseperable from them in its Geography, as it

is in the social and political ties of its

inhabitants, and the connection with the