2. For or against? And why or why not?
Document 3: John Calhoun - Letter to W.R. King August 12th, 1844 (Printed publically)
and then take into consideration the extraordinary increase of
"It is impossible to cast a look at the map of the United States and Texas
population and growth of the fonner, end the source from which the leter must derive its intabilarits, institutions and laws, without coming
to the conclusion that it is their dostiny to be united, and of course, that annoxation is moroly a question of time and mode. It is our
destiny to occupy that vast region; to intersect it with roads and canals; to fill it with cities, towns, villages, and farms; to extend over it our
religion, customs, constitution and laws; and to present it as a peaceful and splandid addition to the domains of commerce and
civilization. It is our policy to increase, by rowing and spreading out into unoccupied regiores, assimilating all we incorporate, in a word, to
increase by accretion, and not through conquest...
3. For or against?
Document 4: Stephen A. Douglass-Speech of Stephen A. Douglass in the House of Representatives, January 6th, 1845
"Without dwelling upon the numerous advantages that would attend the annoxation of Texas timulating the industry of the whole
country; in opening new markets for the manufacturers of the North and East; in bringing in the waters of the Red River, the Arkansas
River, and other streams flowing into the Mississippi... in growing the political power of the United Statee; in securing saler and more
natural boundaries, and avoiding the danger of collisions with foreign power-without dweling upon these and other considerations,
appealing to our intorost and pride eo e people and a nation it is sufficient argument to me that our honor and faith require the immediate
annexation of Texas to the Union."
