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Polk Favored Calhoun Faction Affects Texas Tariff
A Washington telegraph diary notes Polk formally favors Calhoun and the Southern faction, opposing Texas annexation and tariff repeal. Reports from Nashville claim Polk told a Loco-Foco leader that key measures would be tariff reduction annexation of Texas and reestablishment of the Sub-Treasury, while Congress would resist tariff repeal. The debate shifts to annexation and naturalization reform while a tariff bill and other political maneuvers unfold.
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New York Courier
Washington
Polk
Calhoun
Texas
Wheeling Times
Nashville
Foco
Congress
Jackson
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sub-treasury
Dromgoole
Sub- Treasury
Loco-Foco
Barnard
Douglass
Flo
C. 8. Smith
Indiana
Schenck
Ohio
Brodhead
Clay
Loco-Focos
Locofoco
C.J. Ingersoll
Wromgoole
Tyler
Ingersoll
South Carolina
Monroe
Dorr
Davis
Committee of Ways and Means
Stewart
House
Senate
J. Joy Morris
Committee of the Judiciary
Custom House
B. King
Morris