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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers. (search)
ause it was unconstitutional. After much debate, and different plans were discussed in Congress in relation to this important measure, involving many questions of constitutional and national law, it was brought to a successful termination. Joint Resolutions—a most significant term, which, from being a political phrase, became an expression of dignity in our constitutional history—were introduced for the annexation of Texas After much debate they passed the House of Representatives, January 25th, 1845, by a vote of 120 to 98. In the Senate, after a month's delay and opposition, they passed by a vote of 27 to 25, with an amendment, which was concurred in by the House the next day by a vote of 132 to 76. It is due to history, and the statesmanship of President Tyler, to observe that the joint resolutions, on his suggestion, were introduced into the House by J. L. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, and George McDuffie, of South Carolina, in the Senate. Thus it is shown, as appears also by