Something of men I have known : with some papers of a general nature, political, historical, and retrospective . ULYSSES S. GRANT. HORATIO SEYMOUR STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 101 A question — sixty odd years ago — equal in importancewith that of the Oregon boundary was the annexation ofTexas. The Lone Star State had been virtually an in-dependent republic since the decisive victory of GeneralHouston over Santa Ana in 1837 at San Jacinto, and itsindependence as such had been acknowledged by our ownand European governments. The hardy settlers of the newCommonwealth were in the main emigrants from the Uni
Something of men I have known : with some papers of a general nature, political, historical, and retrospective . ULYSSES S. GRANT. HORATIO SEYMOUR STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 101 A question — sixty odd years ago — equal in importancewith that of the Oregon boundary was the annexation ofTexas. The Lone Star State had been virtually an in-dependent republic since the decisive victory of GeneralHouston over Santa Ana in 1837 at San Jacinto, and itsindependence as such had been acknowledged by our ownand European governments. The hardy settlers of the newCommonwealth were in the main emigrants from the UnitedStates, and earnestly solicitous of admission into the Fed-eral Union. The question of annexation entered largelyinto the Presidential canvass of 1844, and the lone starupon Democratic banners was an important factor in secur-ing the triumph of Mr. Polk in that bitterly contested the closing hours of the Tyler administration, annexationwas at length effected by joint resolution of Congress, andTexas passed at once from an independent republic to a Stateof the American Union. This action of Congress, howeve
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