Speech of John Quincy Adams, Upon the Right of People to PetitionPresents the inner workings of the House of Representatives and President Jackson on the question of annexation of Texas as a slave state and the boundaries of the state of Texas which had to be worked out with Mexico. The people of the United States have the right to know about the expansion of slavery in the territories. |
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