The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-21

souri, compromise covetous eyes looked
across the Sabine to the grassy and
fertile plains of Texas. Interpreting
the treaty with France to include that
province, citizens from the southern
states soon began to make settlements
therein, and in 1912 a body of such in
vaders,' with the assistance Of discon-
tented residents, attempted forcibly to
take over the province and set up
new government. Though the effort was
put down, the determination 10 secure
possession continued TO gain strength
in the southern states. More extensive
occupations Of Texas lands were made
and more formidable invasiOns carried
out by American citizens, which were
winked at by the United states govern
ment. Many never consented TO the
yielding Of the right, which they be-
ieved to be conveyed by the treaty of
1893, TO territory reaching to the Rio
Grande. To such directors President
Monroe replied in q spirit Of calm and
careful cOnSiGeraIeness for sectional
jealousies. The north was uneasy over
the addition TO slave soil made by the
Florida purchase. The east was trou
bled In view OF the rapidly growing i'm
portance Of the west. Anti-slaYery
feeling was becoming keenly alive to
the whole temper Of the southern
states, IS shown in the Missouri agita-
ton. The peace-loving chief magis-
trate thought it wise to be content
with Florida and not to press a claim
TO Texas. The dissatisfied sOutherners
bided their time, After 1929 they had
friend at court in the president himself.
In spite Of the apparent acquiescence
Of Jackson and Calhoun and their fol-
lowers in President MOnrOe's pacific
policy, they never really abandoned
their cherished purpose. The forcible
acquisition OF Texas was plotted long
before it's accomplishment. After 1923
the province was claimed as part Of the
new and weak republic Of Mexico. Of
fers OF purchase by the United States
zone OF which included the purchase of
California; were rejected. Colonization
from the states still went on, and Tex
as was secretly melted to declare indie
pendence Of Mexico. In 1929 Mexico
decTeed the abolition of slavery
throughout her borders The act was
ignored in Texas, which had by that
time a large slave-holding population.
A Texas revolution was finally eff
fected in course Of the years 1886, in
which Samuel Houston Of Tennessee,
q friend and fellow soldier of Jackson,
was the real leader, with the secret
backing of the president. Texas de-
clared independence; American forces
were sent into the territory on pretense
Of preventing an Indian invasion Of the
United States, and congress promptly
voted to recognize the new republic
whenever she had proved herself cap
able of maintaining a competent civil
government" While Calhoun urged the
immediate admission of Texas as one
of the United States.
Mexico was deeply offended; her
minister calIsd for his OassDOrts and
IN Difference to northern protests, the
president withdrew the troops from
Texan soil. Only after years of delay
was annexation finally achieved, in the
manner We have seen, at the close of
Tyler's administration. Calhoun was
again pressing the matter. Southern
ers prOfesssd alarm at some humani-
tartan remarks OF the British minister
at Washington respecting slavery, and