Highly Interesting and Important


DOCUMENTS.
QUESTION OF ANNEXATION IN
TEXAS g. MEXICO.

Call for the Interference OF
EU ROPEAN POWERS.
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Suppressed Documents,


accompanying the Presidents Message Transmit


ting the Treaty of Anneration.


To THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES


In my message communicating the Treaty with
Texas, expressed the opinion that if Texas was
not now annexed, it was probable that the oppor-
tunity of annexing it to the United States would
be lost forever. Since then the subject has been
much agltated; and if an opinion may be formed
of the chief ground of the opposition 10 the treaty,
it is not that Texas ought not at some time or
other to be annexed, but that the present is the
proper time. II becomes, therefore, important, in
this view OF the subject, and Is alike due TO the
Senate and the country, that should furnish any
papers in my possession which may be calculated
to impress the Senate with the correctness of the
opinion expressed by me. With tins view, here
with transmit report from the Secretary OF State,
accompanied by various communications on the
subject. These communications are from private
sources; and it is to be remarked that resort must
in all such cases, be had chiefly to private sources
any Government, more especially if situated as
Texas is, would be inclined to develope to the
world its Interior line Of policy;


Among the extracts IS one from letter from
General Houston to General Andrew Jackson, to
which particularly invite your attention; and an
other from General Jackson TO gentleman of high
respectabillty, now Of this place. Considering that
General Jackson was placed IN a situation to hold
r,
the private and confidential secretary Of President
Houston, (who, President Houston Informed Gen.
Jackson, "knows all his actions and understands
all his motives" and who was authorized to com
municate to General Jackson the views of the
policy entertained by the President Of Texas, as
well applicable to the present the FUTURE that the
declaration made by General Jackson in his letter,
:" that the present golden moment to obtain Texas
must not be lost, or Texas might, from necessity,
be thrown into the arms of England, and be for.
ever lost to the United States," was made with a
full knowledge ofall the circumstances, and ought
10 be received as conclusive Of what will be the
course of Texas, should the present treaty fail


From this high source, sustained it it requires to
be sustained, by the accompanying communica.
tions entertain not the least doubt that if annexa-
ton should now fail, it will, in all human proba-
blity, fail forever. Indeed, have strong reasons
to believe that instructions have already been given
by the Texan Government to propose TO the Go.
vemment OF Great Britain forthwith, on the fail
ure, to enter into treaty OF commerce and ALI.
ance offensive and defensive. JOHN TYLER.
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1874.