. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . rders, fromwhich it had been excluded while the country was apart of Mexico. An annexation treaty was concluded on April 12,1844,by John C. Calhoun, Secretary of State, but it wasrejected by the Senate, 16 ayes to 35 nays. The adop-tion of this treaty would have precipitated war withMexico for the same reason that the subsequent annexa-tion did so, namely, because it tixed the southwesternboundary
. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . rders, fromwhich it had been excluded while the country was apart of Mexico. An annexation treaty was concluded on April 12,1844,by John C. Calhoun, Secretary of State, but it wasrejected by the Senate, 16 ayes to 35 nays. The adop-tion of this treaty would have precipitated war withMexico for the same reason that the subsequent annexa-tion did so, namely, because it tixed the southwesternboundary of Texas at the Rio Grande del Norte insteadof at the Rio Nueces, Mexico claiming the interveningregion. While the question was in suspense the Texan au-thorities, in order to promote an early and favorable THE MEXICAN WAR 335 decision, distributed throughout the Southern States avast number of land warrants which converted theirrecipients into ardent annexationists. The Southernpoliticians were appealed to on the ground that a numberof new States could be carved out of the territory, allof which would naturally enter the Union with slavery,and so preserve between the sections the balance of. CLEANSING THE AUGEAN STABI,E [1844 ]From the collection of the New York Historical Society power which was in danger of inclining toward the Northin the admission of free States. During the Presidential campaign of 1844, while theDemocrats minimized in the North the issue of Texanannexation, and strove to outbid the Whigs in a de-mand for the assertion of the Oregon claims, in theSouth annexation was the sole issue, and the nowfamiliar threat of Disunion if the demands of thesection were not granted was again raised. The Northern statesmen were afraid of annexation,fearing that it would bring forward slavery as a para-mount issue and cause a new political alignment in whichother men than themselves would make themselves 336 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES leaders. Accordingly, when the question was
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