I have not sought to change it.

Sir, if I take this office which you offer, I do so with the avowed and expressed purpose of bringing Texas into this Union, in full view of any and all consequences.

I shall offer her a treaty of annexation _at once!_ I shall urge annexation at every hour, in every place, in all ways within my means, and in full view of the consequences!" He looked now gravely and keenly at the English plenipotentiary.
"That is well understood, Mr.Calhoun," began Mr.Tyler.

"Your views are in full accord with my own." Pakenham looked from the one to the other, from the thin, vulpine face to the thin, leonine one.

The pity Mr.Tyler felt for the old man's visible weakness showed on his face as he spoke.
"What, then, is the answer of John Calhoun to this latest call of his country ?" That answer is one which is in our history.
"John Calhoun accepts!" said my master, loud and clear..