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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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. It was at lastamended by inserting a sec-tion called the Walker amend-ment, providing that the Presi-dent, if it were in his judgmentadvisable, should proceed byWay of negotiation, instead ofsubmitting the resolutions asan overture on the part of thejLTnited States to Texas. Thisamendment eased the con-science of a few shy support-ers of the Administration wholad committed themselves verytrongly against the scheme,ind saved them from the shame)f open tergiversation. Thepresident, however, treatedhis subterfuge with the con-empt which it deserved, byltterly disregarding the Walkerintendment, and by dispatchi-ng a messenger to Texas to>ring about annexation on the>asis of the resolutions, thenoment he had signed them,yhen only a few hours of hisifficial existence remained.The measures initiated by Tyler were, ofourse, carried out by Polk. The work was•ushed forward with equal zeal at Washing-on and at Austin. A convention of Texansras called for the 4th of July to consider the
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GENERAL JOHN J. HARDIN.PHOTOGRAPH FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE, LENT BY MRS. E. H. WALWORTH.) accepted and ratified, and in the last days of1845 Texas was formally admitted into theUnion as a State. Besides the general objections which theantislavery men of the North had to the proj-Lmerican propositions; they were promptly ect itself, there was something especially offen-sive to them in the pretense of fairness andcompromise held out by the resolutions com-mitting the Government to annexation. Thethird section provided that four new Statesmight hereafter be formed out of the Territoryof Texas; that such States as were formed outof the portion lying south of 36° 30, the Mis-souri Compromise line, might be admitted withor without slavery, as the people might desire ;and that slavery should be prohibited in suchStates as might be formed out of the portionlying north, of that line. The opponents ofslavery regarded this provision, with goodreason, as derisory. Slavery alreadj existed inthe entir

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