30Claiborne, Mississippi
as
a
Province,
Territory
and
State,
I, 431;
Wise, Seven
Decades
of
the
Union,
148-152. Claiborne's testimony, from
personal knowledge, that William M. Gwin, Jackson's friend and Marshall
of Mississippi, visited Houston at Nacogdoches at Jackson's instance "and
that the great programme was then planned which was subsequently fol-
lowed as closely as events permitted," is corroborated by a memoir in the
Gwin MSS. in California archives, which records Gwin's visit to Hous-
ton soon after his visit with Jackson at the Hermitage. C. R. Wharton,
Texas
under
Many
Flags
(1930), I, 430. Another Mississippi protege of
Jackson's, Robert J. Walker, whom Jackson supported in his senatorial
campaign against George Poindexter, was declaring in speeches in the
fall of 1835 that Texas was an integral part of the Union under the
Louisiana Purchase. See Mississippian
(Jackson), September 25, 1835.
