Note 4 — XXXIV THE WAR IN AMERICAN POLITICS 1846–1848
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(Nomination and election) Smith, Annex, of Texas, 250–2, 310–5. 345Gilpin to Van Buren, May 24, 1846. 234A. Johnson to ——, July 22, 1846, private. London Times, July 15, 1846. Welles papers. Nat. Intellig., Nov. 20, 1847. (Cabinet) Polk, Diary, Feb. 8, 1847; 345Blair to Van Buren, Jan. 29; Feb. 29, 1848; 297correspond. between Polk and M. Van Buren, C. Johnson, A. V. Brown and others, Dec, 1844-Feb., 1845; Poore, Perley’s Remins., i, 334; Welles papers; 297Simpson to Polk, Nov. 13, 1848. (Myself) Tenn. Hist. Mag., Sept., 1915 (to C. J., Dec. 21, 1844). Boston Atlas, Dec. 31, 1846. 206Mangum to Graham, Feb. 21, 1845. (Polk’s discretion distrusted) Cong. Globe, 29, 1, pp. 554 (Allen), 567 (Webster).