The meeting announcement below is from a poster created in 1838 by people who opposed the annexation of Texas.
ANTI-TEXAS MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL!
Friends of Freedom!
A proposition has been made, and will soon come up for consideration in the United States Senate, to annex Texas to the Union .... The freebooters have made it a slave territory .... The immediate result may be a war with Mexico-the ultimate result will be some 18 or 20 more slaveholders in the Senate of the United States, a still larger number in the House of Representatives, and the balance of power in the hands of the South!
- January 24, 1838
The people who requested the meeting were most likely