...Spekulationen Anlaß gegeben hat, fand sich im letzten Absatz: "Resolved, That our title to the whole Territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the re-occupation of Oregon 71 vgl. Bergeron, Presidency of Polk, S. 16- 1 7. 72 vgl. Claude...

...British seemed willing to concede that area. But the Democratic platform raised the bid by claiming that "our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon...portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or to any other power." The "whole" of Oregon extended as far as the southern border of Alaska, at the...

...in state affairs. One new resolution proved to have momentous consequences. The Democrats asserted "that our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas, at the earliest practicable period...

...Universiry of Illinois Press, 1956), "Resolved, that our title to the whole of the Tertitory of Otegon 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 of Otegon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable petiod...

...The following year the Democratic Party in the States proper carried a plank in its platform stating "that our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power. . . ." With a fair number of settlers in the area, the Jacksonian Democrats —successors to the Jeffersonian...

...19, 1844. 2. Washington Globe. 3. The Democratic platform of 1844 included the following resolution: "Resolved, That our title to the whole of the Territory...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period...

...Russia, as his running mate; and, before adjourning, adopted a forthright expansionist resolution: "That our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period,...

...adjourning, adopted a forthright expansionist resohttion: "That our title to the whole of the Territory oJ Oregon is clear and unquestionable: that no portion...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period,...

...admitting a new slave state, Texas, with a new non-slave territory, Oregon. The Democratic platform stated that "our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon...same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period...

...matters. A new section, designed to appeal to northern as well as southern expansionists declared: "That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon...portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or to any other power; and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest...