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... million dollars for his interest in Texas if he would withdraw his op- position . The offer was indignantly refused . The United States had been most anxious to acquire the territory between the Sabine and the Rio Grande . On the 15th ...
... million dollars for his interest in Texas if he would withdraw his op- position . The offer was indignantly refused . The United States had been most anxious to acquire the territory between the Sabine and the Rio Grande . On the 15th ...
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... million dollars , and subse- quently ten millions was proposed as a loan , with Texas as security . All this time Butler , under the explicit directions of Andrew Jack- son , was openly working for the purchase . Austin's return had ...
... million dollars , and subse- quently ten millions was proposed as a loan , with Texas as security . All this time Butler , under the explicit directions of Andrew Jack- son , was openly working for the purchase . Austin's return had ...
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... millions of people , of which four millions were Indians ; two millions half - breed Indians and negroes ; one million two hundred thousand pure blood- ed Mexicans of Spanish descent ; six hundred thousand mulattoes or half - breed ...
... millions of people , of which four millions were Indians ; two millions half - breed Indians and negroes ; one million two hundred thousand pure blood- ed Mexicans of Spanish descent ; six hundred thousand mulattoes or half - breed ...
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... million dollars of unset- tled claims - for they continued to grow like Jonah's gourd - found only three million dol- lars valid . Nor had these claims been of such a nature that they could not have been settled amicably without ...
... million dollars of unset- tled claims - for they continued to grow like Jonah's gourd - found only three million dol- lars valid . Nor had these claims been of such a nature that they could not have been settled amicably without ...
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... millions of dollars , and I would undertake to do it myself . Although I don't know how to set a single squadron in the field , I could find men to do it ; and , with five millions of dollars to begin with , I would undertake to pay ...
... millions of dollars , and I would undertake to do it myself . Although I don't know how to set a single squadron in the field , I could find men to do it ; and , with five millions of dollars to begin with , I would undertake to pay ...
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Page 245 - ... in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico...
Page 96 - We. therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude...
Page 244 - Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it's deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence, up the middle of that river...
Page 95 - It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
Page 169 - And such states as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each state asking admission may desire.
Page 95 - It has invaded our country, both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing to carry on against us a war of extermination.
Page 106 - The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected. I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.
Page 62 - That they hold it to be their right, during the disorganization of the Federal System and the reign of despotism, to withdraw from the Union, to establish an independent Government...
Page 201 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...