Broadside: "Are You For or Against Texas' Annexation"
State Archives Division--Texas State Library

American policy was not made in a vacuum. Public sentiments on the Texas question ran high and were vented in full in newspapers, pamphlets and broadsides, containing statements like the following:

STARTLING DISCLOSURES. PERPETUITY OF SLAVERY: THE DESIGN OF THE LOCO POCO PARTY!!!

Let every friend of humanity, of liberty, of equal rights, read the following address…

We leave every voter to judge for himself and decide this important question."How shall I vote in order to lend my influence in favor of human rights and against the extension and perpetuity of the 'foul blot' of slavery."

--BASE WHIG FORGERY--NOTICE TO THE DEMOCRACY.

THE SOUTH IN DANGER. READ BEFORE YOU VOTE!

"Men of the South, the effort is to disgrace and degrade you and your children forever."