On the festive occasion of July 4th, the day of American independence, one can also reflect on some primary documents from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/texmenu.htm
Texas - From Independence to Annexation
- Texas Independence - Documents
- Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836
- The Texas Declaration of Independence : March 2, 1836
- Treaty of Velasco : 14 May 1836
- Texas-American Diplomacy
- Convention to Terminate Reclamations : 1838
- Texas-American Boundary Convention : 1838
- Texas Annexation : Documents
- The Treaty of Annexation - April 12, 1844
- Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States, March 1,1845
- Inaugural Address of James K. Polk : March 4, 1845
- Joint Resolution of the Congress of Texas, June 23, 1845
- Ordinance of the Convention of Texas, July 4, 1845
- Message of President Polk, May 11, 1846
- Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States, December 29,1846
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