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Wright Morrow Defends
Texas' Pale Spot
The statement attributed to Attorney-General Robert
F. Kennedy in far off Indonesia manifests either a start-
ling lack of information about the importance of the an-
nexation of Texas to the United States or a complete dis-
regard of the historical facts.
I wonder if Mr. Kennedy knows that Andrew Jackson,
one of the greatest of Democratic presidents, was more
interested in the annexation of Texas than
most anything else in his life.
Nothing was closer to General Jackson's
heart than the accomplishment of the an-
nexation of Texas. Almost at the end of
his life, he was writing to his old friend,
General Sam Houston, in this language.
". . . My dear General, I tell you in sin-
cerity and friendship—if you will achieve
this annexation . . . your name and fame
will be enrolled amongst the greatest
chieftains of the age .... ."
James K. Polk ran for President upon a platform of
"Oregon and Texas" and won his campaign with the
annexation of Texas as one of the chief issues. The cam-
paign cry was "Polk and Dallas—Oregon and Texas " and
Andrew Jackson put his whole strength behind Polk
even to the point of persuading President Tyler—run-
ning on an independent ticket—to withdraw from the
race.
Then Jackson, with Houston's wholehearted aid de-
cided not to wait until Polk's inauguration before push-
ing through Congress the final resolution for the annexa-
tion of Texas. Polk went to Washington to help President
Tyler with all the aid that Andrew Jack-
son, the great Democrat, could give them
and the resolution was adopted March 1,
1845, three days before Tyler's term ex-
pired.
Why, then, should Mr. Kennedy regard
this as unjustified and "not a very bright
spot in our history? Not one to be very
proud of."
Texans and Americans everywhere are
proud of this historical event and are
jackson proud of the territory which came as a
result of this annexation and it is, in my humble opinion,
entirely unnecessary and unbecoming of this inexperi-
enced young man, who has become attorney-general of
the United States because he is a brother of the President,
to make this kind of unnatural and unsupported state-
ment on his jaunt through Indonesia.
I must confess that I prefer the judgment of President
Andrew Jackson to that of Attorney-General Kennedy.
—Wright Morrow, 733 Houston Club Building, Houston.
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Morrow, Wright. Wright Morrow defends Texas' pale spot, clipping, Date Unknown; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth248360/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library.