CALENDAR
VI
PAGE To Sterling C. Robertson, September 15, 1847; says that he will sell his horse, "Proclamation," if he can get a fair price,________ 19 A Certificate of Expense, October 11, 1847; states that the men who accompanied Santa Anna to Washington City in 1836, had never been reimbursed for their expenses on the trip_______________ 19 To Anson Jones, October 18, 1847; states that he himself will reply to the first part of President Tyler's second letter, but will leave the latter part of it to Jones,_______ ---------- 19 To F. L. Hatch, October 20, 1847; a reply to President Tyler's letter of October 1, 1847. He again explains lhe roles played in the annexation episode by Reily, Van Zandt, and Murphy; denies that Tyler was the moving spirit of annexation, and declares that General Jackson was; says that Tyler flirted with Texas; discusses the moot question of the United States guarantee to protect Texas during annexation negotiations____ ----------- 20 To Ebenezer Allen, December 21, 1847; asks Allen to attend: a case at Jaw-Floyd vs. Stephen G. McCleney, also a case in which he him- self was personally involved through the questionable conduct of J. Pickney Henderso,.__________ ___ 27 JANUARY, 1848-MAY, 1848 To the Editors of the National Intelligencer, January 1, 1848; it con- cerns Anson Jones's statement that had he no't disobeyed Houston's orders during his second administration of Texas, that annexation would have been defeated_______________________ 28 Houston's speech on the Texan Boundary in Tammany Hall, February 22, 1848; The Texan boundary on the south and west was the Rio Grande from mouth to source; Mexico recognized this claim; Texas did not rebel against Mexico-it was Mexico who violated the Constitution of 1824 and subverted the laws; the Mexican centralist government's object in Texas was to annihilate the entire Anglo-American race there; a review of the Texas revolution; the Mexican invasion of 1842 was begun by the Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande; the so-called Cuevas Treaty of 1845 recognized that boundary; Mexico unable to protect her borders and subdue the Indians; Mexicans incapable of self-government; Texans gave Mexico liberal principles, and thus elevated its citizenry___________ 29 Speech, May 8, 1848, in the United States Senate, on the Yucatan Bill and the Davis amendment thereto: the United States at war with Mexico, of which Yucatan was an integral part; Yucatan claimed not to be involved in the causes of the war; a. restatement and a discussion of the Monroe Doctrine; Clay's position thereon; the obligation of the United States to take possession of Yucatan if there was danger of any other nation's doing so; thei true policy would force the United States to take Yucatan, not annex it, but defend its white population; refutation of Calhoun's argument that the annexation of Texas not the cause of the Mexican War; review of Texas history leading up to the controversy over the Texas
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