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Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions (open access)

Texas and the Massachusetts Resolutions

Pamphlet containing an essay against the annexation of Texas, compiled from a series of newspaper columns.
Date: January 1, 1844
Creator: Adams, Charles Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations (open access)

Anti-Texass Legion: Protest of some free men, states and presses against the Texass rebellion, against the laws of nature and of nations

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Anti-Texass Legion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annexation of Texas. By Junius no. IX (open access)

Annexation of Texas. By Junius no. IX

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1844
Creator: Colton, Calvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discourse on Slavery and the Annexation of Texas (open access)

Discourse on Slavery and the Annexation of Texas

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1844
Creator: Dewey, Orville
System: The Portal to Texas History
Address on the annexation of Texas, and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith: delivered in Boston November 14 and 18, 1845 (open access)

Address on the annexation of Texas, and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith: delivered in Boston November 14 and 18, 1845

Pamphlet from Texana Collection
Date: January 1, 1845
Creator: Phillips, Stephen C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proceedings of the Senate and Documents Relative to Texas, from which the Injunction of Secrecy Has Been Removed (open access)

Proceedings of the Senate and Documents Relative to Texas, from which the Injunction of Secrecy Has Been Removed

Record of 1844 Senate Proceedings.
Date: 1844
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress. (open access)

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress.

Presidential address to the 1845 Congress.
Date: 1845
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition) Volume 85: 28th Congress, 2nd session, Appendix (open access)

Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition) Volume 85: 28th Congress, 2nd session, Appendix

Congressional debates and proceedings regarding the annexation of Texas to the United States of America. Only selected pages of the Congressional Globe are reproduced here.
Date: December 31, 1845
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1 (open access)

History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1

Book describing Texas history up to the time of annexation to the United States of America. This first volume is broken into 22 chapters covering the start of European immigration (roughly 1685) through the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1835, with a number of appendices containing supplementary information.
Date: 1855
Creator: Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 2 (open access)

History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 2

Book describing Texas history; this second volume is broken into 14 chapters covering the start of the Republic of Texas in 1835 through annexation by the U.S. in 1846, with a number of appendices containing supplementary information.
Date: 1855
Creator: Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thoughts on the proposed annexation of Texas to the United States (open access)

Thoughts on the proposed annexation of Texas to the United States

A book containing Theodor Sedgwick’s opinions about the annexation of Texas to the United States. The book contains discussions of issues that arise if Texas is annexed to the United States Union. A couple of the issues addressed are slavery and diplomatic relations between Texas and Mexico.
Date: January 1, 1844
Creator: Sedgwick, Theodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1 (open access)

Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1

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Date: January 1, 1841
Creator: Kennedy, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
A new history of Texas for schools : also for general reading and for teachers preparing themselves for examination (open access)

A new history of Texas for schools : also for general reading and for teachers preparing themselves for examination

Texas history textbook
Date: 1895
Creator: Pennybacker, Anna J. Hardwicke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letters, Relating to the History of Annexation (open access)

Letters, Relating to the History of Annexation

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Date: January 1, 1848
Creator: Jones, Anson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2 (open access)

Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2

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Date: 1841
Creator: Kennedy, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix (open access)

Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix

The observations of Frederick Law Olmsted as he journeyed through Texas in the 1850s.
Date: January 1, 1857
Creator: Olmsted, Frederick Law
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life of General Houston, 1793-1863 (open access)

Life of General Houston, 1793-1863

Biography of Sam Houston.
Date: 1891
Creator: Bruce, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Massacre on the Nueces River; story of a Civil War tragedy. (open access)

Massacre on the Nueces River; story of a Civil War tragedy.

Account of the battle from two participants, Williams on the Confederate side and Sansom with the Union.
Date: unknown
Creator: Williams, R. H. & Sansom, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peace With Mexico (open access)

Peace With Mexico

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Date: 1847
Creator: Gallatin, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Ranges of the Southwest (open access)

Cattle Ranges of the Southwest

This book contains information about the use and condition of Texas pastures contemporary with the book. It also gives information about the obstacles in the way of renewing the cattle ranges and how the cattle ranges could possibly be renewed.
Date: 1898
Creator: Bentley, Henry Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Legal Directory For 1876-77 (open access)

Texas Legal Directory For 1876-77

This Texas directory contains lists of: officers of the U.S. Government, officers of the Texas Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments, county officers, state lawyers, Texas counties, banks, post offices, and revised rules of the Supreme Court.
Date: 1877
Creator: Bentley, Henry Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
The War in Texas; A Review of Facts and Circumstances, showing that this contest is a Crusade Against Mexico, set on foot by Slaveholders, Land Speculators, &c. In Order to Re-Establish, Extend, and Perpetuate the System of Slavery and the Slave Trade. (open access)

The War in Texas; A Review of Facts and Circumstances, showing that this contest is a Crusade Against Mexico, set on foot by Slaveholders, Land Speculators, &c. In Order to Re-Establish, Extend, and Perpetuate the System of Slavery and the Slave Trade.

Opinion piece describing the history and reasons for the Texas Revolution, including the position that it was intended to support slavery in Texas.
Date: 1837
Creator: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
System: The Portal to Texas History