. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . g a sec-tion called the Walker amend-ment, providing that the Presi-dent, if it were in his judgmentadvisable, should proceed byway of negotiation, instead ofsubmitting the resolutions asan overture on the part of theUnited States to Texas. Thisamendment eased the con-science of a few shy support-ers of the Administration whohad committed themselves verystrongly against the scheme,and saved them from the shameof open tergiversation. ThePresident, however, treatedthis subterfuge with the con-tempt which it deserved, byutterly disregarding the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . g a sec-tion called the Walker amend-ment, providing that the Presi-dent, if it were in his judgmentadvisable, should proceed byway of negotiation, instead ofsubmitting the resolutions asan overture on the part of theUnited States to Texas. Thisamendment eased the con-science of a few shy support-ers of the Administration whohad committed themselves verystrongly against the scheme,and saved them from the shameof open tergiversation. ThePresident, however, treatedthis subterfuge with the con-tempt which it deserved, byutterly disregarding theWalkeramendment, and by dispatch-ing a messenger to Texas tobring about annexation on thebasis of the resolutions, themoment he had signed them,when only a few hours of hisofficial existence measures initiated by Tyler were, ofcourse, carried out by Polk. The work waspushed forward with equal zeal at Washing-ton and at Austin. A convention of Texanswas called for the 4th of July to consider theAmerican propositions ; they were promptly.
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