Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Of course, this is just one source, but I can't imagine Houston working so hard to get Texas into the Union only to take so easily out of it. If you have a source for this information, I'd love to see it and add it to my lecture on Houston for my classes.

T.
I stand corrected as I was basing my info off of the reported text of the speech in Salido Texas from the Stage Coach Inn balcony where he supposedly said that if we must leave the union, then we should become a Republic again.

As I do not have access to the reported text, I will redraw my statement as being faulty. The reason (in my understanding) that Texas was enticed to join the Union was the problem of Mexico. Once that problem was removed, the need to the unions protection was not as paramount, as Texas was now stronger and able handle their problem better. There are questions about the legality of the US to pass a resolution to annex Texas anyway.