. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . sincelong before the Texas revolu-tion, and until its inhabitantsfled before the approach ofthe United States army. 4th. Whether that set-tlement is or is not isolatedfrom any and all other set-tlements by the Gulf andthe Rio Grande on the southand west, and by wide unin-habited regions on the northand east. 5th. Whether the peo-ple of that settlement, or amajority of them, or any ofthem, have ever submitted themse
. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . sincelong before the Texas revolu-tion, and until its inhabitantsfled before the approach ofthe United States army. 4th. Whether that set-tlement is or is not isolatedfrom any and all other set-tlements by the Gulf andthe Rio Grande on the southand west, and by wide unin-habited regions on the northand east. 5th. Whether the peo-ple of that settlement, or amajority of them, or any ofthem, have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States, by con-sent or by compulsion, either by accepting office, or voting at elections, or pay-ing tax, or serving on juries, or having process served upon them, or in anyother way. 6th. Whether the people of that settlement did or did not flee from theapproach of the United States army, leaving unprotected their homes and theirgrowing crops, before the blood was shed, as in the messages stated; and whetherthe first blood so shed was or was not shed within the inclosure of one of thepeople who had thus fled from JAMES K. POLK. 106 ABKAHAM LINCOLN. 7fch. Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his messages declared,were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settle-ment by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. 8th. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sentinto that settlement after Greneral Taylor had more than once intimated to theWar Department that, in his opinion, no such movement was necessary to thedefense or protection of Texas. Action on these resolutions was never taken, but they did their work. OnJanuary 12, 1848, Mr. Lincoln commented on thein in a speech, in which, asHenry J. Raymond says, he discussed, in his homely and forcible manner, theabsurdities and contradictions of Mr. Polks message, and exposed i
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