Letter from James Buchanan to James Reed et al.

Senator James Buchanan responds to a Democratic party Committee's request for information on Buchanan's opinion on whether the United States should annex Texas. "I should refrain from any public or extended discussion of the subject, whilst the Treaty of annexation is actually pending before the Senate in Executive, and of course, Secret Session," as Buchanan explains. Members of the Democratic Committee from of Prince William County include James H. Reed, P. D. Lipscomb, James B. J. Thornton, and Daniel Jasper. Transcript included.