The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 85
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The Annexation of Texas.
sented to Texas, that she may exercise some choice as to the con-
ditions of her entry into the Union.
I can not say what would be proper for the commissioners to
agree upon. But I would suggest that Texas, if admitted into the
Union, should enjoy full equality and community with the other
States of the Confederacy; that the United States should receive
and pay Texas a liberal price for the public property which has
been acquired for national purposes, and that the amount should
be paid to the State of Texas, so soon as it should be organized and
admitted as a State.
That Texas should retain her public lands, and if the United
States should hereafter vary her boundary or limits, as at present
defined, by contracting or reducing them, that in that case they
should indemnify the citizens of Texas, by payment for any lands
which they may hold, by locations under the laws of Texas, in the
territory abandoned by the United States, at the minimum price
of the government lands at this time in the United States.
That the government of the United States may at any time pur-
chase the vacant lands of Texas, at a price to be stipulated by the
commissioners; and in the event of their purchasing our lands, that
they should not (without the consent of the State of Texas) sell to,
or permit to settle within the present limits of Texas, any nation,
people, or tribe of Indians.
That Texas should pay the national debt.
That the United States should remunerate the citizens of Texas,
whose lands fell within the United States in running the boundary
lines, in the same manner, and with the same liberality, that Texas
did those of the United States, or that they (the United States)
pay them for their lands, which had been located on valid titles,
issued by the government of Mexico, and at a time when it was be-
lieved the limits of Texas would embrace the locations previous to
running the line.
And I would recommend that an article be inserted in the agree-
ment, stipulating, expressly, that Texas should not form a part of
the Union until her Constitution is accepted by the Congress of the
United States.
'I candidly conceive that these stipulations are necessary and
proper to secure Texas and her citizens, as well as to enable the.
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