December 21. 1836.1 But there are circumstances in the relations 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 those amon our citizens who. always reluctant to abandon that claim. can not but regari with solicitude the prospect of the reunion of the territory to this country. A large proportion 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 bound to many of our citizens by ties o riendship and kindred blood. and. more than all. it is known that the people of that country have instituted the same form of government with our own. and have since the close of your last session openly resolved. on the acknowledgment by us of their independence. 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 she claims is identified with her independence.
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