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The election for U. S. Senator will probably take place on Saturday
the 21st inst. Gens. Houston and Rusk will be elected, it having been
determined, I learn, not to nominate any others.
Col. Wm. G. Cook is a candidate, at the request of his friends, for
Representative in the U. S. Congress, from the Western District of Texas.
Yours &c.
Paul.
The valedictory of President Jones is written with dignity, much
feeling, and in a patriotic spirit. He congratulates the country upon the
peaceful consummation of Annexation-"an event the most extraordinary
in the annals of the world." He pronounces the dissolution of the "Republic"
of Texas with a full sense of the higher blessings to be derived from
merging into the American Union, and then cheerfully surrenders the
great trusts committed to him.
Gov. Henderson's inaugural address is conceived in a pure spirit of
patriotism. The author is impressed with a profound sense of the respon-
sibilities of Texas, as a new member of the Union, and of himself, as her
first executive officer. In due time he will recommend measures for the
action of the Legislature, as he is required by the Constitution. He con-
cludes thus:
We have this day fully entered the Union of the North American
States-let us give our friends who so boldly and nobly advocated our
cause, and the friends of American liberty, no reason to regret their
efforts in our behalf. Henceforth the prosperity of our sister states will
be our prosperity-their happiness our happiness-their quarrels will
be our quarrels, and in their wars we will freely participate.
Telegraph and Texas Register
March 4, 1846
PRESIDENT JONES'
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS.
Delivered at the Capitol, in the City of Austin, Feb'y. 19, 1846.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
The great measure of annexation, so earnestly desired by the people
of Texas is happily consummated. The present occasion so full of interest
to us and to all the people of this country, is an earnest of that con-
summation, and I am happy to greet you as their chosen representatives
and tender to you my cordial congratulations on an event the most
extraordinary in the annals of the world, and one which marks a bright
triumph in the history of republican institutions. A government is
changed both in its officers and in its organic law-not by violence and
disorder, but by the deliberate and free consent of its citizens, and amid
the most perfect and universal peace and tranquility, the sovereignty of
the nation is surrendered, and incorporated with that of another.
There is no precedent for this, and hence forward "Annexation" is a
word of new import in the political vocabulary of America, to form a
subject for the speculations of the Statesman and the intellectual labors
of the Sage. Nations have generally extended their dominions by conquest;275
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