Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1848-08-19
THE ADMISSION OF TEXAS--FRAUD
AND FALsEHOOD OF PRESIDENT
POLK.

| POLK.
| As consequence OF the disruption Of
the Locofoco party. the rascah;y by which
| The admission of Texas into The Union
was secured, and a war with Mexico rem
dered inevitable, is being brought TO light
BENJAMIN Tappan. late u. S. Senator from
Ohio, and Francis p. Blair, late editor oi
The W ashiugton Globe. who knew too
many of The secrets of Mr.. Polk 10 be kept
in the place of official editor. and was.
therefore. supplanlei by Mr.. Richie, are
The foremos. in this work, and they make
beautiful exposition Of The knavery Of
| the President, as exhibited iowafds his po-
li,ical friends. We copy their letters.
/. As belonging to the history of the case, il
is necessary TO say, that Mr.. Tyler. on The
last day of his service in the Presidential
office, instead Of waiting for the action o!
he new President determined TO carry
| ont the resolution Of Congress by which
Texas was annexed by legislative enact
men,, and not by negotiation, as Mr.. Ben
ton proposed. Polk wens into office next
day, and instead of carrying out his Pledy-
es. by recalling Ty!er's messenger, VINO
haG been sent olf,he nigh, previous, avail
ed himself Of this movement 10 consider
himself absoved of all promises, and SEN
aors aud The country were cheated by his
wan, of good faith and veracity.
The letters now published exhibit the
degree of corruption which prevailed
among all The parties concerned in promo1-
ing the annexation Of Texas 10 the United
States Mo. Rep.
srruBENyIlLr, July 81: 1913.
To the Editors fAhe Evening Post:
Dea. Sir: Since the admission Of Tex
| as into the Union was consummated,
! have thought with you tha! my vote on
that measure required explanation. was
in favor of receiving ,ha, State into the
Union as soon as ii could be done on fair
| and just terms. and with the consent OF
Mexico: and believe, from all could
learn, tha, his might be accomplished at
less expense than il would cost 10 wage
war of one years duration for obtaining
it. SO disposed, not only vosed against
Mr.. Tyler's treaty of annexation because
III WAS SACtpilOUdOtG III 10 'Ht III
violation of rule os tie Senate, from All
imperatlpe sense of public duty bad pub-
Iished il and the cores pondence with
which i. was accompanied, because 1t APP
peared to me tina, ihe " hole affair afforded
evidence Of daring conspiracy to divide
the Union by arraying the Free and Slave
States against each o,her--evidence which
considerations entirely paramount to all
Senatorial formulas, required TO be imme-
diately diyu|ged.
The inquiry is a very natural one
how men who desired the admission OF
Texas anc voted agains, ,he treaty OF an
nexation, could afterwards vote for the
resolution in the House OF Representatives
bv Mr.. Milton Brown. which was more
excepiionable in lis terms than The treaty.
Now that the war with Mexico is end
ed, and the public interest cannot be ipJur-
ed by answering this inquiry. give you
the following statement, promising that The
public history of this transaction is in the
Congressional Globe. vol. XIV, page
$50 10 363, and the Congressional Globe
OF February "a, 1917.
When, the "join, resolution declaring
the terms on which Congress will admit
Texas into the Union as state" was be-
fore the Senate. it was soon found tina,
number of the Democratic members who
were favorable to the admission OF Texas
would vote agains! ,ha, resolution. was
one of them. In this stale of the matter
it was proposed that, instead of rejecting
the House resolution, we should amend
it by adding, as an alternative proposition,
The substance Of Mr.. Benton's bill to OBJ
tain Texas by negotiation. had strong
objections to this plan. for did not see
the necessity or proprie.y of passing the
House resolution either with or without
the proposed amendments but ii was urg-
ed that the session was so near It's close
tina. the measure would be defeated if we
substituted Mr.. Benlon's plan for the 9th
err, whereas, if we made i, an additional
article i. would readily pass the House in
that form. This reasoning did not satisfy
me, but finding that my friends were all
satisfied with the proposed arrangement,
acceded 10 i,-provded that could have
satisfactory assurances that the plan pro-
posed in such amendment would be the
only one used and sumbi!led to Texas
MIR. Polk was in the city i. was un>
derslood tina. he was very anxious that
Congress should act on the subject before
he came into Office; il was also understood
that the proposition TO amend the House
resolution, originated with Mr.. Polk. il
had been suggested that if we did SO
amend the resolution Mr.. Calhoun would
send off the House resolution to Texas,
and so endeavor TO fores,ali the action of
Mr.. Polk, but Mr.. MeDuffie, his friend,