"That Texas is to be, sooner or later, included in the Union, we have long...regarded as an event already indelibly inscribed in the book of future fate and necessity. And as for what may be termed the antislavery objection, this has no greater force than the other. The question of slavery is not a federal or national but a local qustion...It would not, in all probability, be difficult to obtain the consent of Mexico, or such recogntion by her of the independence of Texas."

Senator Robert J. Walker, "The Texas Question," United States Magazine and

Democratic Review, 1844

"There has long been a supposed conflict between interests of free labor and of slave labor...But let us admit Texas, and we shall place the balance of power in the hands of the

Texans themselves...Are our friends of the North prepared to deliver over this great national

policy to the people of Texas...in order to purchase a slave market for their neighbors, who, in

the words of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 'breed men for the market like oxen for the

shambles'?"

-Representative Joshua Giddings, "Upon the Annexation of Texas," 1844

Using the excerpts, answer A, B, and C

A) Briefly explain the main point of Excerpt 1

B) Briefly explain the main part of Excerpt 2

C) Provide ONE piece of evidence from the period 1830 to 1860 that is not included in the

excerpts and explain how it supports the interpretation in either excerpt

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