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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xii. Texas and her Annexation. (search)
een the people of the United States and the people of the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by the consent of three-fourths of the States of the Union. Mr. Hale's motion that the rules be suspended, to enable him to offer this proposition, was defeated — Yeas 92 (not two-thirds) to Nays 81. Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Pa., reported (Jan. 12), from the Committee on Foreign Affairs a joint resolve in favor of Annexation, which was sent to the Committee of the Whole January 25th, the debate was brought to a close, and the following joint resolution adopted — that portion relating to Slavery having been added in Committee, on motion of Mr. Milton Brown (Whig), of Tennessee: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included in, and rightfully belonging to, the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of gov