. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ry that had, as yet, appliedfor admission into the Union. It was not carved out of our ownterritory as other States had been, nor was it prepared
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. ry that had, as yet, appliedfor admission into the Union. It was not carved out of our ownterritory as other States had been, nor was it prepared for mem-bership by any process of ripening under a Territorial govern-ment. A member of the Mexican Republic, it had seceded andset up for itself Its admission into the American Union wouldbe a surrender of its independence to again try the experimentof membership in a Republic to which it had all along been for-eign.* Discussion of the question of Texas Annexation occu-pied most of the time of the second session of the Thirty-eighthCongress, 1844-45. ^ proposition to prohibit slavery within itsborders was voted With full knowledge of the fact that * Quite a number of Saxon settlers had drifted into Texas who had done muchto foster the spirit of annexation. f Mexico hnd abolished slavery twenty years before, and therefore by the law ofthe Mexican Republic Texas was free territory. But Texas, when independenthad re-established GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR. 137 138 POLITICAL HISTORY OF its status was one of war with Mexico, and that annexationwould be an assumption of that status, the Congress voted forit. The joint resolution of annexation prohibited slavery in any-State formed of Texas territory north of 36° 30, but left thequestion to the people of the States to be formed of said terri-tory south of that line. We have already seen the steps bywhich her territory passed to the United States and the conse-quences.* The date of her admission was Dec. 29, 1845. WISCONS
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