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OFFERS F:ROM MEXICO.
[1845.
throughout both Texas and the United States. France
and England were making every advance to Texas, and
offering her strong in-
duceinents to remain in-
dependent. To keep all
confronted the Presidest.
Annexation Bill.- On
House of Represenitatives
at Washington: one
hundred and twenty hf A .to
voted for the bill, ninety-eiglt agaiiist it. OC) l arlch 1st,
the Senate voted twenty-seven "aye, t twenty-five " oes.
One of the last official acts of President Tyler was to sign
the bill, and thus make it a law.
Offers from Mexico.-Mexico now made the strongest
effort to keep Texas from entering the doors of thae Union.
* Anson Jones was born in fassachusetts, in 1798. At the age of twenty-two,
lie was licensed to practise mediciine. He immigrated t;o TPexa in 183I3, settling:i in
Brazoria. He was strongly iln favor of Texan ilndeneience, and did groo work on
the battle-field and in the hospitals. He was a merber of the Texas Congress,
Minister to the United States, and Secretarj of State before he becaine .P esidelt.
At the annexation of Texas, he retired to his plantation, where he busiel hinself
with his professionil and literary labos until 1858 whe, in a fi of deporldelcy,
he took his own life. His " Republic of Texas " contains rmuh that is valuable to
the student of Texas history.
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Pennybacker, Anna J. Hardwicke. A new history of Texas for schools : also for general reading and for teachers preparing themselves for examination, book, 1895; Palestine, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2388/m1/254/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.