Tamaulipas, and New Mexico ; and accordingly voted themselves, on the 19th December, 1836, the vast territory included between the United States and the Rio Grande, from its source to its mouth. To proclaim, more- over, their eaoferness to transfer themselves and their im- mense domain, now consecrated to slavery, to the Federal Union, a poll was held in 1836, at which the electors were required to express their wish for annexation, or for a separate government. The result was, 3279 votes for annexation, and 91 against it. This vote is also im- portant, as showing the diminutive population of the insurgent State. These various manifestations were not made to unwilling or unobservant spectators.
The President, while full of complaints against the ag- gressions of Mexico, sent an official agent (Henry M.
Morfit,) into Texas, whose report of the good land, it was hoped, would excite the American people to go up and take possession. On the 2 2d December, 1886, the Pre- sident laid before Congress a communication from his agent, on the " Political, military, and civil condition of Texas." This document reveals the following important facts :—" The boundaries claimed by Texas will extend fiom the mouth of the Rio Grande, on the east side, up to its head waters, thence on a line due north, until it in- tersects that of the United States, and with that line to the Red River, on the northern boundary of the United States, then to the Sabine, and along that river to its paouth, and from that point westwardly with the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio Grande. It was- the intention of the Government, immediately after the battle of San Jacinto, to have claimed from the liio Grande along the river to 30 degrees of latitude, and then west to the Pacific. It was, however, found that this would not strike a convenient point on the California, that it would be difficult to control a wandering population so distant, and that the territory now de- termined upon would be sufficient for a young Republic.