The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 215
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Recognition of the Republic of Texas by the U. S. 215
May 16, Senator Walker of Mississippi referred to the treaty of
1819 by which five or six prospective states were torn from the
Union, thus destroying the balance of power between the North and
the South.' May 23, Morris of Ohio, who, on April 26, had pre-
sented the first memorial asking for the recognition of Texas, now
said that he was not ready to take up the matter-that it involved
a question which did not 'meet the eye, which was beyond the mere
recognition of independence, a question that would convulse the
Union from one end to the other.' Calhoun of South Carolina
spoke of the advantage of annexing Texas, thus preventing the pos-
sibility of annoyance to the slaveholding states from that section of
the country. Rives of Virginia said Calhoun had given opinions
as a southern man.8
On the same day Niles of Connecticut, on presenting resolutions
from the legislature of his state, praying the recognition of Texas,
called attention to the fact that the first state4 to take such a step
was in a remote part of the Union where no interested motives
would be supposed to operate, and from whence there had been no
emigrants to that country." This, he went on to say, should prove
that there was really little foundation for all that was being said
concerning local jealousy in different sections of the Union. He
was aware that there were ulterior questions of a most momentous
character connected with the independence of Texas. Some of these
were very delicate, involving the balance of political power in re-
gard to a particular interest, to which he would not at that time
allude. If these questions had been considered by his state they
had not influenced her actions which had sprung from a sense of
justice and a love of liberty.''
The extreme caution with which it was necessary to approach
such a question would naturally have prevented any free expres-
'Debates in Cong., 24 Cong., 1 Sess., 1456-7.
'Ibid., 1525.
'Ibid., 1531.
'Connecticut seems to have been the only state that sent in such a
petition.
'In this statement Niles was perhaps substantially correct. A part of
the interest taken by Connecticut in Texas, however, may have been due
to the fact that Moges Austin, the father of Stephen F. Austin, and the
first to conceive the idea of introduction into Texas Anglo-Americn
colonists, was a native of Durham, in that state.
6Debates in Cong., 24 Cong., 1 Sess., 1531.
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