The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 218
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
Government de facto, it was undoubtedly the duty of this Govern-
ment to acknowledge their independence" ;i "The sole question is,
has a revolution been effected in Texas? Has the Mexican Gov-
ernment been overthrown there? .. . [If so] then we shall
violate the fundamental principle of the law of nations, if we con-
tinue to recognize the existence of the Mexican authority in a
country from which it has been expelled."2 Calhoun was ready to
vote for annexation as well as recognition as soon as it became evi-
dent that Texas had established a government."
Finally, in order to get all the light possible on the subject as
well as for the moment to dispose of a question that was uselessly
consuming time, it was decided both in the House4 and the Senate
to refer all memorials and petitions to committees of foreign af-
fairs. June 18, five days after the reference, the Senate commit-
tee, of which Clay was chairman, was ready with its report. This
report begins by discussing the former policy of the United States
toward the recognition of a new or modified form of government,
and concludes thus:
The committee has no information respecting the recent move-
ments in Texas, except such as is derived from the public prints.
. . . No means of ascertaining accurately the exact amount of the
population of Texas are at the command of the committee.
Nor are the precise limits of the country which passes under the de-
nomination of Texas known. . . . [Therefore]
Resolved, That the independence of Texas ought to. be acknowl-
edged by the United States whenever satisfactory information has
been received that it has in successful operation a civil Government,
capable of performing the duties and fulfilling the obligations of
an independent Power."'5
'Webster in Debates in Cong., 24 Cong., 1 .Sess., 1527.
'Walker in ibid., 1534.
'Ibid., 1531.
'The only record given in the Globe of a reference of memorials to the
House committee on foreign affairs was on June 6 when memorials from
the District of 'Columbia were referred (Cong. Globe, 24 Cong., 1 Sess.,
533). But the opening words of the report of July 4 (Reports of Com-
mittees, 24 Cong., 1 Sess., III, No. 854) are as follows: "The Committee
on Foreign Affairs, to which were referred certain resolutions of the Legis-
lature of the State of Conmecticut, and the petitions of many citizens of
the United States, asking the recognition of the independence of Texas,"
etc.
Reports of Committees, 24 Cong., 1 Sess., 1847.
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