...declared that " our title to the whole of Oregon is clear; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas" were great American measures, which the people were urged to support. The people thought they were...

...Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or to any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon...measures, which this Convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union." 1 James K. Polk, who had thus unexpectedly been placed...

...Mexico. At the end of May the Democratic national convention at Baltimore adopted a platform calling for "the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period" as "great American measures." We must now trace the steps by which Oregon came to form, jointly with...

...1828, on twelve months' notice. In the presidential campaign of 1844 the Democratic platform demanded "the re-occupation of Oregon, and the re-annexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period," the intention being, of course, to use Oregon as a political offset to Texas. A bill to organize a...

...held in Baltimore a week before Benton spoke, which nominated Polk for President, declared in favor of the ' reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period'; but the Whigs, who held their convention in the same city four weeks earlier, and nominated Clay, evaded...

...interesting story of his connection with the presidential campaign of 1844. The slogan of that campaign was "the re-occupation of Oregon, and the re-annexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period, as great American measures." Instead of nominating Martin Van Buren, as was expected, the Democratic...

...the Territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the re-occupation...American measures, which this Convention recommends. . . . This extravagant resolution caught the public imagination and the slogan of "fifty"54° W four...

...the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other Power; and that the reoccupation...the ardent support of the Democracy of the Union. Was not the Old Dominion in that convention? And did she not adopt that as one of the tenets of her...

...to be ceded to England or any other power ; and that the reoccnpation of Oregon, and the ^annexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period, are great American measures, which the Convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union." Col. Thomas H. Benton,...

...the canon of Andrew Jackson, about banks, tariffs, and internal improvements, but it also called for the "reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period."13 Thus, with a single stroke, the Democrats had virtually annihilated Clay in the South14...