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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 136

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that no foreigner should be given the privilege of the bill until he at least had recorded some evidence of his intention to become naturalized. In 1841 he resigned his seat to become attorney general in Wm. H. Harrison's cabinet. Upon the accession of John Tyler to the presidency, Mr. Crittenden resigned the place in the cabinet and the following March was elected to fill out Henry Clay's unexpired term and then reelected for a full term.
Mr. Crittenden objected to the annexation of Texas. he admonished the senate to hold fast to the Union as it is; not to attempt to expand its territory; not to risk anything by hazardous experiments at least until the matter should be decided by a vote of the people. He opposed the war with Mexico but after it had begun considered defence a duty and voted for every measure for

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134 that no foreigner should be given the privilege of the bill until he at least had recorded some evidence of his intention to become naturalized. In 1841 he resigned his seat to become attorney general in Wm. H. Harrison's cabinet. Upon the accession of John Tyler to the presidency, Mr. Crittenden resigned the place in the cabinet and the following March was elected to fill out Henry Clay's unexpired term and then reelected for a full term. Mr. Crittenden objected to the annexation of Texas. he admonished the senate to hold fast to the Union as it is; not to attempt to expand its territory; not to risk anything by hazardous experiments at least until the matter should be decided by a vote of the people. He opposed the war with Mexico but after it had begun considered defence a duty and voted for every measure for