The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 82
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82 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
of Texas, it is to be hoped and expected that its government will be
consulted as to which should be adopted. By the action proposed
in the plan of Mr. Brown's resolutions, Texas is denied all option
as to the mode of annexation, and is driven into servile submission,
and is required to pay a price for her humiliation. If Texas were
to accept the conditions as they are now presented to the govern-
ment of Texas by the government of the United States, it would
derange her present form of government, and shake her institu-
tions to their foundation, if her constitution should not be accepted
by the Congress of the United States; and my own opinion is, that
our admission by Congress would be very doubtful if we were to
act upon the first and second sections of the resolutions, without
reference to the third.
If the work of annexation is to be consummated, my great desire
is to see it done in a manner that may not only be harmonious at
present, but so that each party may hereafter, on a review of the
whole matter, have nothing to regret or to reproach itself with.
It seems to me, also, that the conditions as to the time to which
the action of Texas is limited is too short to enable her to give the
subject all the consideration which its importance demands. The
Congress of the United States will, doubtless, not adjourn its next
regular session before the month of July, 1846. Then it will have
ample time to extend the period for the action of Texas until her
government and people could carry out their action upon the
plan which I propose, and the same that was contemplated by the,
amendment. If the original resolutions are insisted upon as the
basis and the only one, I entertain the most serious doubts as to our-
ever being admitted, or forming a part of the American Union.
Texas has so long been a suppliant, that I am fearful the govern-
ment of the United States has presumed upon what they suppose
to be our necessities, and therefore have been induced to lay such
hard conditions upon us. Heretofore the difficulties have all ex-
isted on the part of the United States, as to our admission into the
Union; nor do I yet regard them as all obviated. If I am right in
this, it would be too perilous for Texas to act upon the basis pro-
posed, and subject herself to have the constitution which she might
at present submit rejected by the Congress of the United States.
It would not only be destructive to the future prospects and wel-
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