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Col. POblk's Letter.
CoLUM BIA Tennessee
Apni 70, 1874

Gentlemen: Your letter Of the 30lb
uIt which you have dono me the honor
10 address to me, reached my residence
during my absence from home, and was
no; received untI yesterday, Accom-
panylug your letter, you transmit to M
as YOU state, "a copy OF the proceed Ings
Of very large meeting oil The cI'izenS
ol Cincinnati, assembled on the 29,h
inst, 10 express their settled opposition
10 The annexation ol Texas 10 The Uni.
ted Slates.n You request from me an
explicit expression OF oplnlon upon 'h's
question o annexation. Having at no
lime entertained opinions upon pubic
snbiecls which | was unwilling 10 aVow,
II gives me pleasure TO comply wIIh
vour request. HAVE NO HESITATION IN
DECLARING THAT AM FAVOR VI THE
IMMEDIATE REMUNERATION OF
TEXAS TO THE TERRITORY AND GOVERN
upNT OF THE UNITED STATES / enter
tain no doubts as 20 The pOtcer and cape
d,eacy of the remuneration, Ihe PROOF
is clear and satisfactory TO my mind that
Texas once constituted part OF the ter
ri,ory ol the United States, the TILE to
which regard 10 have been as lndIspu-
liable as thai TO any other portion oil ouI
territory. At the Time the negolIalIoI
was opened with view TO acquire the
FIor,das. and the settlement OF otheI
ouestlons, and pending that negotiation
the Spanish government IseIl was sat
,s6ed with the validity Of our tile, ant
: was ready 10 recognize line tar west o
the Sabine. as the true western boundaf,
: Of Louisiana, as defined by the treaty o
IS03 with France, under which Louis
lana was acquired This negotiation
T. which had been first opened ut Madrid
y was broken of and transferable 10 Wash
IS ing,ou. where it was resumed, aud re-
al suI,ed in the treaty oI Florida, BY whlc
the Sabine was fixed on as The wester
IN boundary oil Louisiana. From The rat
1 6ca,lon OF The treaty OF loO3 wit
IN France, until the treaty ot 1917 wit
le Spa,u, the territory now constituting tn
" teuubIic oc Texas belonged 10 the Un'
pit ted States. In 1919, the Florida treat
le was concluded al Washington, by NJ
co John Quincy Adams, he Secretary
State y on the pari Of the United Stale
% and Don Louis do Onls on the pan
os Spain; and by that treaty Ih's 'eIr''o'
ly,ng west OF the SABINE, aud cuns'll'
Nv ,Ina Texas, was ceded by the Unilt
"a States to Spain, That mo k'o DEL NOT
Vi or some more western boundary thf
tho Sabine, could have been oOtanC
of mad !, heon insisted on by the America
'co Secretary OF State, and that without u
90 c,oas.un ,he CoAslusIaGivn paIu 'oT II
its Florldas. 10 my Judgment '"o COUNT
)S wost nl the Sabine aud now calico lex
wss mos, unwlseiy ceded away lls
nm mari Of the great valley ol the Mlssl
ust s,ppl, directly connected by lis na'Igao
he wsIe,s with The Mississippi Tlver, al
or. having once been paTI o' our O"'on'
m. shouId never have been dlsmemOeT
he from II. The government aud peop
u OF Texas, 1t is understood, not only q
he ,helr consent, but are anXlousiy oes'fo
nd to be reunited to the Unlled States.
The the application ol Texas IOra reun'
Nh. md admission into our cODIederacy sh'
the be- rejected by The United States the
10 is imminent danger that she VIII Oeco'
dependency! u no! y cy'VpI' u 0''