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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
ion of Congress had been inefficient, and the diplomatic negotiations had been puerile. But now the people had spoken in no uncertain tones, and decisive action, backed by resolute purpose, was demanded. The face of affairs began to wear a new aspect. A joint resolution of notice to Great Britain to terminate the joint occupation at the end of one year, passed the House by a test vote of 154 to 54, and after amendment, passed the Senate by a vote of 40 to 14, and was finally adopted April 23, 1846. （Benton's Thirty Years, vol. 2, p. 673.) Diplomatic negotiations, also, progressed rapidly. June 6, Sir Richard Pakenham, the British minister at Washington, submitted a draft of a treaty to which Great Britain was willing to agree, making the parallel of 49° the northern boundary of Oregon; thus compromising the question at issue by dividing the territory between the two nations. This compromise seemed the natural and equitable result of the controversy. It continued to the Pacific