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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 5: (search)
rs, has done me many kind offices. His sister Mary, a very amiable and accomplished lady, succumbed to the disease, from which her brother Charles, owing to the unusual vigor of his constitution; soon recovered. During the administration of John Tyler, himself a slaveholder, the gigantic scheme of annexing Texas to the Union was introduced by Southern members into Congress. This republic, which had declared itself free from Mexican rule in 1835, embraced an area of 237,500 square miles, ext opposed the annexation; and Mr. Van Buren said it would in all human probability draw after it a war with Mexico. On this question turned the election of James K. Polk, in 1844; and three days previous to the expiration of his term of office, John Tyler signed the bill for the annexation of Texas to the United States. On the 4th of July, 1845, the Texan legislature approved the bill of annexation; and on the same day Charles Sumner first came into the political arena by the delivery of his gr