Compare this spirit of today with the spirit of 1836 as -viewed by Jackson: But there are circumstances in the relation of the two countries which require us to act on this occasion with even more than our wonted caution. Texas was once claimed as a part of our property. and there are among our citizens those who. always reluctant to abandon that claim. can not but regard with solicitude the prospects of the reunion of the territory to this country. A large portion of its civilized inhabitants are emigrants from the United States. speak the same language with ourselves. cherish the same principles. political and religious. and are hound to many of our citizens by ties of friendship and kinded blood. and. more than all. it is known that the people of that country have istituted the same iorm of government with our own. and have. since the dlose of yore last session. openly resolved. on the acknowledgment by us of their indepondence. to seek admission into the Union as one of the Federal States. This last circumstance is a matter of peculiar delicacy and forces upon us considerations of the gravest character. The title of Texas to the territory whiech she claims is identified by her independence.
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