TO THE HON. THE CONGiESS OF TE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPESENTATIVES CONVENED:
Your memorialists, inhabitants of the county of , and State of
, respectfully represent:
That they are apprehensive that the project to annex Texas to the United States is not yet
totally abandoned, and they can imagine no measure that would be so fraught with dis-
grace to our national sharacter, with detriment to our prosperity, and destruction to our still
existing confederacy.
That the irregular settlement or seizure of Texas by lawless adventurers and speculators,
their shameless prostration of the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness in a land where, by the Mexican constitution, human liberty had been per-
inanently established, the singular and summary mode in which its nationality was recog-
nized, all forbid the thought of such an amalgamation. Rhode-lsland, Michigan,
That with these views some of the States, as Massachusetts, Vermont, Ohio, have through
their legislatures, and the citizens of the other northra- States have by means of the public
press, popular meetings, _and unanie us petitions, repeatedly and decidedly protested against.
any such innovation.
Your memorialists intend to support the constitution of the United States; and they believe
that as the proposed incorporation with Texas would essentially change the conditions~ of the
original compact between the States, it could not be effected without a formal alteration of
that instrument, which would be utterly impracticable. They, therefore, earnestly petition
