US Presidency
1846

In the month of May, 1836, Santa Anna acknowledged by a treaty with the Texan authorities in the most solumn form the full, entire, and perfect independence of the Republic of Texas. It is true he was then a prisoner of war, but it is equally true that he had failed to reconquer Texas, and had met with signal defeat; that his authority had not been revoked, and that by virtue of this treaty he obtained his personal release. By it hostilities were suspended, and the army which had invaded Texas under his command returned in pursuance of this arrangement unmolested to Mexico. From the day that the battle of San Jacinto was fought until the present hour Mexico has never possessed the power to reconquer Texas.