An American history . ffer of$5,000,000 he secretly urgedhis old friend Houston toprecipitate the revolution ofthe following year, by whichTexas won , there is littleprobability that this chargewas true, for Jackson refusedto conclude a treaty of annex-ation with Texas, even afterboth Houses of Congress hadrecognized the independenceof the province by large ma-jorities. We were at peacewith Mexico, though on badterms with her on account of claims of damages to Americanproperty in Texas and to American commerce in the still claimed Texas as a dependency, and a
An American history . ffer of$5,000,000 he secretly urgedhis old friend Houston toprecipitate the revolution ofthe following year, by whichTexas won , there is littleprobability that this chargewas true, for Jackson refusedto conclude a treaty of annex-ation with Texas, even afterboth Houses of Congress hadrecognized the independenceof the province by large ma-jorities. We were at peacewith Mexico, though on badterms with her on account of claims of damages to Americanproperty in Texas and to American commerce in the still claimed Texas as a dependency, and although therewas apparently little chance of her recovering the province, therevolt was still too recent to make the Texan republic anassured fact. Under these circumstances, for the United Statesto take Texas without the consent of Mexico would have beena breach of the law of nations, and would probably havebrought on war between the two countries. 477. Attemptsof the UnitedStates to an-nex Texas bypurchase,1827-1835. 478. Jacksonrefuses toanger Mexicoby the an-nexation ofTexas, 1836 Sam Houston, First President of theRepublic of Texas 336 Slavery and the West 479. Van When Van Buren entered the White House in March, 1837,toannexa- whatever hope there was of the speedy annexation of Texastion, 1837-1841 yanished. The abolitionist struggle in Congress was at its height. The moment was most inauspicious for the attempt to add theimmense slave area of Texas to the Union. Besides, Van Burenwas a New Yorker, and had little desire for extending the do-main of slavery. He refused to consider any proposition forthe annexation of Texas, and even came to an agreement withMexico (which that country promptly broke) for the settlementof the American claims. So the whole matter slumbered throughVan Burens administration, and played no part at all in theturbulent election of 1840, in which the new Whig party over-threw the Jackson machine and took revenge on Van Burenfor the ofificial corrup
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