and assur- runces. Thus President Jackson, in the Message already quoted, after showing how exceedingly profitable to the United States the acknowledgment of Texan independence would certainly prove, proceeded to allay the alarm of the North which his own representation awakened, by pretending that such acknowledgment must be indefinitely postponed. " Prudence," said he, " seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude, if not till Mexico or one of the great foreign powers shall recognize the independence of the new Go- vernment, at least imtil the lapse of time, or the course of events, shall have proved, beyond all cavil or dispute, the ability of that country to maintain their separate sove- reignty, and to uphold the Government constituted by them."
This declaration, so frank and explicit, and made at the beginning of the Session of Congress, tended to pre- vent all demonstration of popular opinion against the ac- knowledgment, and all pledges on the subject from the Representatives to their constituents.
On the 1st of March, two days before the close of the Session, and in the absence of six members, a resolution passed the Senate acknowledging the Independence of Texas. Allusion was made in debate to the objections made by the President on the 2 2d of the preceding De- cember to such a measure. To the astonisliment of the public, the mover of the resokition, Mr. Walker, from Mississippi, declared in his place that he " had it from the President's own lips that, if he w^ere a Senator, he w^ould vote for this resolution." Thus the lapse of time and course of events, contemplated by the President in his Message, were ascertained to be eight weeks, and a ma- jority in Congress. The resolution w^as adopted by the lower House, and the American Colonists in Texas were thus received into the family of nations as forming an Inde- pendent Republic.