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be consulted as to which should be adopted. By the action pro- posed, in the plan of Mr. Brown's resolutions, Texas, is denied, all option as to the mode of annexation, is driven into servile submission, and is even now required, to pay, a vrice for her humiliation. If Texas were to accept the conditions, as they are now pre- sented to the Government of Texas, by the Govt of the U States, it would derange her present form of Government and shake her institutions to their foundation, if her constitution should not be accepted by the Congress of the U States. And my own opinion is that our admission, by Congress, would be very doubt- ful, if we were to act upon the first, and second sections of the resolutions, without reference to the third. If the work of annexation is to be consummated, my great desire is, to see it done in a manner that may not only be har- monious at present, but so that each party may, hereafter on a review of the whole matter have nothing to regret; nor to re- proach itself with. It seems to me also that the conditions as to the time, to which the action of Texas is limited is too short to enable her to give the subject all the consideration, which its importance demands. The Congress of the U States will doubtless not adjourn its next regular session before the month of July, 1846. Then it will have ample time to extend the period for the action of Texas, until her Government and people could carry out their action, upon the plan which I propose, and the same, that was contemplated by the amendment. If the original resolutions are insisted upon as the basis, ancl the only one. I entertain the most serious, doubts as to our ever being admitted, or forming a part of the American Union. Texas has so long been a suppliant, that, I am fearful the Government of the U. States, has presumed, upon what they suppose to be our necessities and therefore have been induced to lay such hard conditions upon us. Theretofore the difficulties have all existed on the part of the U States as to our admission, into the Union. Nor do I yet regard them as all obviated. If I am right in this it would be too perilous for Texas, to act upon the basis proposed, and subject herself to have the constitution which she might at present submit rejected, by the Congress of the U States. It would be, not only destruction, to the future prospects and welfare of Texas, but convulse the Union to for greater extent, than ever did the Tariff, or the "Missouri question."
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