Annexation of Texas to the United States: Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th instant, respecting an annexation of Texas to the United States.

Title:

Annexation of Texas to the United States: Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th instant, respecting an annexation of Texas to the United States.

Creator:

United States - Department of State.

Abstract:

In September 1836, Texas voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation by the United States. However, when Mexico threatened war, President Martin van Buren refrained from annexing Texas; slavery was a factor as well. Instead, the United States granted diplomatic recognition to Texas in 1837, and in 1842 finalized efforts to resolve the 50-mile difference in border claims: the Republic of Texas claimed the Sabine River as its border based on the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty; the United States claimed the border 50 miles west of the Sabine. In early 1844, in response to the perceived actions of Great Britain to make Texas a protectorate, President John Tyler reopened negotiations concerning the annexation of Texas. On April 12,1844, President Tyler presented an annexation treaty to the Senate, rupturing diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States. The Senate failed to ratify the treaty by wide margin in June 1844. Near the end of his term, President Tyler tried again. Through a joint resolution of both houses of Congress, he offered Texas statehood with certain conditions: * Texas would keep both its public lands and its public debt, * it would have the power to divide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired, and * it would deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the United States government. With the support of President-elect Polk, the joint resolution passed on March 1, 1845, and Texas was admitted into the United States on December 29, 1845. Left unsettled was the southern boundary of Texas: the Río Grande or the Río Nueces. It took the Mexican-American War to settle the border dispute.

Issued:

[1837]

Subject:

Texas--Annexation to the United States

Rights:

A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Spatial:

Texas

Attribution:

United States - Department of State., Forsyth, John 1780-1841, Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856, and A copyright review process in April 2022 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Description:

Date of object determined by library to be 1837. and Held in the Floyd and Louise Chapman Texas and Borderlands Collection at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives on the campus of Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas.

Exhibit Tags:

Shape of Texas

Call Number:

F390 .U416 1837

Contributor:

Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856 and Forsyth, John 1780-1841

Language:

eng