1845 annexation of Texas Mr Archer Committee On Foreign Relations

Description: (eBay 131) 28th CONGRESS, 2d Session. [SENATE.] IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 4, 1845. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. ARCHER, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following REPORT: The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which have been referred sundry joint resolutions and a bill on the subject of the annexation of Texas, and also sundry instructions of State Legislatures, and memorials and petitions on the same subject, have had the same under considera- tion, and report: The question of the incorporation of Texas into the United States has awakened and is exercising in no ordinary degree the reflection and the sensibilities of the country. The interests it addresses are so powerful, and the prepossessions and feelings to which it appeals so vehement in their tem- per, as fully to explain the solicitude which hangs on the decision. This feeling is as diffused as intense-every head is filled with the interest of the discussion, and every tongue employed in it. Nor is the prognostic yet de- cisive of the issue, the scales of the controversy depending by a beam too tremulous to give assurance of their adjustment. Excitement, unhappily, is not confined to individual sentiment. This temper has extended as extended itself to some of the public bodies of the country, evincing in their proceedings the malignity of its influence. The accents unhallowed have been heard in more than one quarter, denouncing danger to the integrity of the Union in the event of the refusal to anuex Texas in some parts of the persistance in the policy of doing so, in others. In a condition like this, of the temper in which the subject of the policy of annexation is regarded, the committee could have no hope of contribut- ing to any advantageous result, were they to engage in the discussion. Opinion is too inflexible in its array on the different sides of the question for further discussion to promise successful inroad on either side. The committee, desirous in this state of the question to be at liberty to decline it, find authority for doing so in the circumstances of the reference to them. The propositions submitted, framed in each instance with a view to the annexation of Texas, the real intendment of the submission to them has not been so much to elicit an opinion on the vexed question of the policy of annexation as to report on the fitness of the several schemes proposed for carrying the policy into effect. In this view, which has been impressec forcibly on the committee, they have not felt that they would be practising any improper avoidance of a duty imposed upon them, in deciding to con

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