Clay, Slavery, And Annexation!

'I HAVK, HOWEVKR, NO HRSITATION IN SATING THAT, FAR FROM HAVINO ANY PRKSOIVAIiOBJKCTrON TO THR AjSKEXATJON OF TEXAS, 1 SHOULD HE GLAD TO SEE IT, WITHOUT OISIIPNOR, WITHOUT WAR, WITH THK COMMON COSKtiT OF THR UNION, AKD UrON JUST AND FAI TKRMS. I DO JYO T THIJSTK THAT THE SUBJECT OF SLJVERY OUGHT TO J1FFECT THE qUESTIOJV OJVE WAY OR THE OTHER. WE1ETHER TEXAS BE JNDEPENDENT OR IiNCORPORATED IN T[I1] UNITED STATES, I DO NOT BKUKVK IT WTLLPROLOKG OR SHORTEN THR DÜRATION OP THAT JNSTITUTION. Il s de.'ined to become extinct, at some dislant dny, in my opiír.on, by tlio opnperntion of the inevi labio lavve of populalion. IT VVOULD BE UJYWISE TO REFUSE A PERMANENT ACQUISITION which, wlll fxist ns Ion? as the globe remnins, ON ACCOUNT OF A TEMPORARY 1NSTI TCTION- H. Claxfs Lciter, Jvly 27.