if our people are a mind to go there. told me he would assist me all in his power in the government and would receive and communicate at any time. I He proposed to send some books with explanations &c
related the opinion of on annexation that Mr [Robert] Walker of Mississippi would be the only man in the senate who would vote for it.
said the petition for annexation of was not by either political party of , but by the speculators of and the and .
read a letter.
said the suggestion was made to and he offered [p. [224]]