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Browsing named entities in Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for 1837 AD or search for 1837 AD in all documents.

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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
by many, in the diseased state of the public mind, to utter the portentous word—Slavery! It will extend the slave area and prop the tottering slave power. It is needless to our purposes to follow the negotiations for the annexation of Texas through all the details of diplomacy, Congressional debate and popular discussion. It is sufficient to note that annexation was favored almost universally at the South and strongly opposed by Northern abolitionists. Texas applied for annexation in 1837. The application was declined by President Van Buren, but gave rise to animated discussion in all parts of the country. Congress was flooded with petitions and memorials. The State legislatures of Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Ohio and Michigan passed resolutions opposing annexation; while the legislatures of Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi passed resolutions strongly urging it. The question meanwhile remained in abeyance. But matters were brought to a crisis by
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
ginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1830. In 1837 he was a captain of militia in the Creek war, ainia house of delegates elected in 1834, and in 1837 entered the national house of representatives, ge. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, and two years later, at the age of twenty-one utenant, and in 1838, captain of engineers. In 1837 he was ordered to the Mississippi river, in ass, 1817. He was graduated fifth in the class of 1837 at the United States military academy, and recest 10, 1814, and was graduated at West Point in 1837, with promotion to a lieutenancy in the Fourthirst cruise in 1832, was promoted lieutenant in 1837, and in 1842 established his home in Alabama. as graduated at the university of that State in 1837. His father, Gen. Reuben C. Shorter, removed t to Illinois, and thence removed to Arkansas in 1837, making his home in Clark county. Here engagincompany, he served in the Florida Indian war of 1837-39. In 1846 he moved to Jackson county, Florid[4 more...]