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Joel Poinsett wanted to buy Texas from who and how much

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Because Mexico forced his recall in 1829, Poinsett did not get to present President Andrew Jackson's instructions to offer $5 million for a line running between the Nueces and Rio Grande northward to the forty-second degree north latitude.
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