Seat of Empire by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

Author:Jeffrey Stuart Kerr [Kerr, Jeffrey Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General, 19th Century, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV)
ISBN: 9780896729742
Google: HbK9jwEACAAJ
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2016-03-15T00:59:01+00:00

De Saligny’s efforts paid off on January 23 when the House voted 19–12 in favor of passing the Franco-Texienne bill. Senate passage seemed assured when President pro tem Anson Jones announced his support, giving proponents a 7-to-6 advantage. Acting President David Burnet, however, let his intention to veto the bill be known through like-minded Senator Francis Moore, who stood on the Senate floor to praise the “virtue, integrity, and firmness” of the stand-in chief executive. The dismayed advocates of the bill gave up the fight, failing even to call for a final Senate vote.10

David Burnet’s threatened veto of his beloved Franco-Texienne bill only confirmed Alphonse de Saligny’s impression of the man. Of Burnet, de Saligny had the previous December bemoaned “the inflexible and brittle character of the Vice-President, his pedantry and vanity, his smallness and pettiness of mind, his utter lack of candor—not to mention his secret antipathy for France concealed by pleasant and intimate relations that have so far existed between the Legation of the King and the government.”11 Burnet’s victory, and de Saligny’s humiliating defeat, must have strained to the breaking point the patience and tact of the French agent. How else to explain De Saligny’s subsequent overreaction to a minor, unrelated annoyance that ultimately extinguished his dream and ended his Texas career?

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