Address of Amos Kendall, to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, in Relation to the Claim of Amos and John E. Kendall (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address of Amos Kendall, to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, in Relation to the Claim of Amos and John E. KendallThe Republic of Texas While entirely independent contracted debts and pledged as security her Custom House 'reven'ues. 'by annexation to the United States, these revenues were diverted from that object and brought into the Treasury of the' Union.: This por tiou.ot the creditors of Texas maintained, that inasmuch as the United States had deprived them of their security, they were bound to provide for the payment of their demands. Congress yielded to the force of the argument and gave Texas for various considerations ten millions of dollars, five millions of which were set apart for the payment of the debt in question.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.