Identifier: livescampaignsof00odel (find matches)
Title: The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Odel, Samuel W Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Chicago, Star publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o which it had not wholly relinquished,though Santa Anna, while a prisoner, had been compelledto grant the insurgents independence. Notice was giventhat the passage of the bill granting admission wouldbe tantamount to a declaration of war. The great partiesin the United States at that time, the Whig and the Demo-cratic, or, in other words, the Anti-Slavery and the Pro-Slavery parties, chose sides on the question of admission,the one against and the other for, and cast the solution intothe election for President that was shortly to take place(1844). These parties were straining every nerve toincrease their power by capturing, politically, new territory.Whether slavery should be restricted to the states whichwere now in its possession, or whether the territories fromwhich new states were being constantly formed shouldremain free from the evil, was the question on either side ofwhich the political forces were rallied. The people whohad settled Texas were chiefly from the slave states and
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GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT 48 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEE. had taken their slaves v^rith them. Indeed, their determin-ation to retain their slaves in defiance of the MexicanGovernment, which had not permitted slavery to existwithin its jurisdiction, had been one of the causes of theTexan Rebellion. If the new state should be admitted tothe Union, the Pro-Slavists, or Democrats, would have avast advantage over their opponents. Consequently, thecampaign carried on by the parties, with the admission asan issue, was very bitter. The Democrats, despite the factthat Mexico was threatening war, won the victory, and theirnominee, James K. Polk, was elected. The annexation, oradmission, bill was at once passed, and received the Presi-dents signature. Texas became a member of the Union.The Mexican Legate at once demanded passports andleft the country, thus closing all friendly relations betweenhis Government and the United States. As one of the chiefgrievances of the Mexican Government

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